Solar.Cross
A downloadable game
Solar.Cross is a narrative, punk picross game where you complete nonogram puzzles in order to facilitate restoration projects undertaken by the Environmental Renewal Agency (ERA).
Play as Mateo, a naive 25 year old new hire at ERA who quickly finds himself in the midst of a secret ploy to uncover records of political corruption within ERA.
Developed in 10 days for the Day Zero Games: Solarpunk Jam
Features
- 30 Unique Picross Puzzles
- ~2,500 Word Narrative
- 4 Characters
Controls
- Space - to advance dialogue
- LMB - Place Squares
- RMB - X out tiles/Clear Tiles
- BACKSPACE - to auto-clear puzzle layers
- *Please note: It is recommended to use backspace on a clear board *
Credits
Solar.Cross by Merge Conflict Studio
- Karina Teruya | 2D/3D Art, VFX, Shaders
- Melody Geiger | Sound Design, Music, Production
- Ethan Godwin | Puzzle Design
- Connor Blankenship | Programming, Design
- Joseph Horak Programming, Narrative, Design
- Cheeto | Emotional Support Cat
- Tools | Unity, DoTween, Blender, Yarnspinner, Ableton Live Lite
- Audio SFX sourced from Pixabay, the Soundmorph Sound Library, and the UltimateSFX Bundle (then designed in Ableton Live Lite).
Socials
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Comments
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Very cool puzzle! I love how well the game integrates with the story. The gameplay is fun and easy to pick up while being challenging enough to stay interesting.
Solar.Cross was a really fun and engaging game! I love doing picross puzzles and visual novels so this game was right up my alley, and the plot and themes were really well made too I was hooked throughout, overall an awesome and short game that I would 100 percent reccommend!
BEAUTIFUL FUN PUZZLE GAME
The art style is gorgeous for the characters and the levels once the puzzles are done.
The audio for everything is really satisfying to listen to, very pleasing to the ears yes, delicious sounds •_•
The puzzles themselves progressively get more challenging but are really fun to solve once you get the hang of it.
The story line is short and sweet with neat little plot twist, I was very invested
10/10 would play again