Game Overview
MentalBlocker is a puzzle game that I designed and developed in Swift. The motivation behind the game is simple: to create a game that challenges a player’s memory and problem-solving skills.
The Need
This is a personal project that gave me experience developing and designing my first game. The need was simple:
to learn and accomplish the goal of actually getting it done and published!
My Goals
To create a visually appealing and mentally stimulating puzzle game. To learn the Swift programming language.
Mockups
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- MentalBlocker menu
Design Synopsis
The game has four modes, all of which have two things in common: a grid of tiles and blocks. Memo mode shows randomly placed blocks on the screen for a second and then removes the blocks to allow the player to tap them in the correct positions by memory. The grid gets bigger and the number of blocks increases as the levels progress.
Flashback mode is similar, but instead of tapping the blocks in any order, the player must tap them in the order in which they appear.
Pairs mode is like the classic memory card game: pairs of images are marked on blocks of different colors, and the player flips over the blocks two at a time until all of the pairs are found.
Safe Zone mode, my favorite mode so far, is a puzzle with blocks that the player must slide into designated white tiles called Safe Zones. There is a caveat: instead of simply sliding each block onto a safe zone in however many moves the player can solve the level in, he or she must solve the level in the least amount of moves.
Here are computer simulations of the app that show the gameplay for each mode:
Memo: Tap the blocks that appear
Flashback: tap the blocks in the same order
Pairs: Find all matching pairs of blocks
Safe Zone: slide a block onto each white tile