Puzzle Design

[ryandobby]

Simple and Complex puzzle ideas

[ryandobby]

Please post any comments or ideas you have for both simple and complex puzzles.

[ericaluong]

• those "unblock" puzzles and/or puzzle boxes that involve just 3d manipulation of different pieces until you can slide them out/apart etc.
• mazes? and if not a walking maze, navigate using other ways (hey that rhymes)
• my brain is wanting to say that 3d ball game where you tilted the "table" to get it out without it falling into certain holes. The name escapes me, though.
• honestly something artsy would be cool

A lot of these have already been done in like 3d modeling or game-wise, but I don't recall seeing them in VR ever? But that's just me

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instant realization of a different meaning for "simple and complex puzzle ideas" aha--

From my experience with escape rooms, there's a lot of secret/simple coding--and by that I mean the answers are more obvious than they seem, but the fun is in finding them?

So decoders/languages/symbols those are always fun

Multiple locks. Multiple locks with different kinds of combinations?

[jallendev]

• Different colored wires that the player might need to cut. The player could start the game with wire cutters in plain sight, then the wires to cut could be a puzzle near the end. Clues could be scattered around the play area to show which wires to cut.

• Possibly a sliding puzzle game to open a safe or container? One of the pieces could be missing and have to be placed in location to make this a multi step puzzle.

Overall, It would seem that puzzles requiring multiple steps are the best as they allow a feeling of accomplishment along the way and seem more thought out. Common ways of doing this could be making a piece of the puzzle hidden initially or giving the player a clue to a puzzle they have not yet discovered.