Octopuzzler (2021)

View source on GitHub

Play in browser (sorry, this won't work in text mode!)

How to play

Right click an octopus eye on the right.
Then, click a control on the left to bind it.
Finally, click the eye to execute the bound controls in order!

Summary

My first finished game! Octopuzzler is a puzzle game about managing constraints and saving your files into a floppy disk before the octopus's ink covers your computer.
The game was rated 82^nd out of 5800 entries in the Originality ranking on the 2021 GMTK Game Jam.
I wrote its custom C++ and OpenGL game engine as a way to learn both, and what started as a 3D engine with custom physics (I plan to revisit this!) ended up as a very extensible 2D engine which I used for a few other games. I have since ported it to the web, and updated Octopuzzler post-release to work in it.

Tech Used

C++
CMake
Custom engine called "Outrospection"
OpenGL 3.3 and WebGL 2
Emscripten
GLFW
SoLoud audio engine
JSON parsing

Things Learned

Input binding
Functional programming
Event bus
UI layer stack and event propagation
Resource management and registry
Platform abstractions (macOS, Android, Linux, Windows, web)

My Role

I wrote the custom engine for this game from scratch, as well as all the gameplay scripting. The art was drawn by my good friend Smudge, and the score was made by OrchidWolf.