Giant Steps
Created for Ludum Dare Jam 38: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/giant-steps
Controls
| Move | Q, W, E, A, S, D |
| Look around | Mouse |
| Pick up / drop | F (then one of Q, W, E, A, S, D) |
| Restart level | R |
About
The idea for this game began with the feeling I wanted to create something involving a hexagonal grid. I could not think of a game in which the player issues direct movement commands to a character constrained to a hex grid. So, hoping it was at least somewhat novel, I ran with that idea and brought in a familiar block-carrying puzzle element.
Foremost, Giant Steps is an homage to Brandon Sterner's Block Dude, a TI calculator game that delighted me and friends for many hours in middle school math classes. I owe much to that game -- with the exception of some of the later puzzles, Giant Steps is more or less just Block Dude in three dimensions, with more hexagons :)
The name "Giant Steps" is a reference to the geological formation of Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, a dramatic landscape of hexagonal basalt pillars that juts out into the North Atlantic. The shape and texture of the basalt columns was a visual inspiration for this game.
The name is also a nod to the brilliant John Coltrane album of the same name, which I listened to repeatedly during the development of this game.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Cary Yang, who playtested an early version with ten puzzles on Saturday night and caught a broken puzzle.
Otherwise, this was a solo project. I used Unity 5.6 as game engine and development environment, and Inkscape and Blender for assets. The UI font is Roboto from Google.
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5, Windows |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
| Author | lennartjansson |
| Genre | Puzzle |
| Made with | Unity |
| Tags | Ludum Dare 38 |
| Average session | A few minutes |
| Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
| Links | Ludum Dare |





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