The Brickworks

Created for the 2024 Summer Pirate Jam.

Content

The player must help a mysterious figure repair the ancient machinery found deep underground. This prototype includes basic puzzles, as well as a small world to explore, where the player must find a water pump, and use crafted tools and the pipes provided to fix it (the game is won when the pump is connected to the downward facing pipe without any gaps)

How To Play

Unfortunately no documentation currently exists in game, so please refer back to the following (controller isn't supported, sorry!) :

A / Left arrow: move left

D / Right arrow: move right

Spacebar: jump

Left mouse button: pickup / put down object under mouse

You will also need to create various tools to progress - here's a cheat sheet!

Top: Glowberry to Light - not needed, but good to have!

Middle: Sap to Adhesive - can stick objects in place.

Bottom: Bottle to Acid - can break chains.

On Bugs

This is not a finished or polished experience. As such, there are numerous fun bugs for you to discover!

Notably, you can lock the player character in place by dropping a pipe on their head, and there are a couple places where you can get stuck under hanging pipes, as well as a couple softlocks if pipes fall the wrong way. Oh, and the pipes don't work half the time so the game-over message won't appear.

For a playable experience, I'd recommend not standing on pipes connected by 1 chain, or under falling pipes. Also try and make pipes fall to the right.

GameJam

My GDD can be found here.

There is no music or SFX.