A downloadable Photon Engineer for Windows and Linux

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Gameplay

During your journey, you will be confronted with a variety of original and challenging puzzles. You will be required to form ingenious systems by building blocks having different abilities, such as deflecting and merging laser beams, turning and pushing other blocks.

Unleash your creativity and problem-solving skills to progress through the game, unravel the mysteries of your surroundings and unlock new information as you delve deeper into the unknown.

The laser puzzles are interspersed with sliding puzzles that require strategic moves to solve.

Story

In 2075, a space probe saw a strange platform floating in space near Jupiter. The government has decided to finance a space mission to send you on this platform to elucidate the mystery. Your mission is to discover why this platform exists and who built it.

Further details

  • 40 levels/platforms to discover.
  • 95 puzzles (45 puzzles with lasers and 50 sliding puzzles).
  • 20 puzzle achievements that extend the game experience.
  • Each puzzle is unique and provides a new idea.
  • Lasers are all marked with symbols for colorblind players.

The game uses Urchin Engine, a complete game engine including 3D/Vulkan, physics, sound and a map editor that I developed over a 10-year period. It is open source: https://github.com/petitg1987/urchinEngine

System requirements

  • OS: Windows 10/11, Ubuntu 22.04 (or Linux with libc >= 2.35)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics (minimum): GeForce GT 1030 (2GB) / Radeon RX 550 (4GB)
  • Graphics (recommended): GeForce GTX 1060 (3GB) / Radeon RX 580 (4GB)
  • Storage: 750 MB available space
Updated 25 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, Linux
Release date Apr 10, 2023
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorDeer Vision
GenrePuzzle
Made withGIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Audacity
Tags3D, First-Person, Sci-fi, Singleplayer, Space
Code licenseMIT License
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish; Latin America, French, Portuguese (Brazil)
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
AccessibilitySubtitles, Configurable controls
LinksSteam, YouTube, Twitter, Community, Source code

Purchase

Buy Now$9.99 USD or more

In order to download this Photon Engineer you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $9.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:

photon-engineer-linux.zip 182 MB
Version 1.2.4
photon-engineer-windows.zip 176 MB
Version 1.2.4

Development log

Comments

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Thanks for the DRM-free build and linux support! Nice to see an open source engine too. But your game has a discoverability problem on Itch, it doesn't show up in search results for me (neither by title nor price).

Thank you for your comment. I am aware that my game is still not indexed on Itch. According to the Itch documentation, there is sometimes a manual approval when you publish your first game and it can take a few business days.

Oh, I see. Thanks for the info :)