Photon Engineer

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