[WIP] Heretic Puzzle World (Level 2 Now available Page 1)

[Evil Space Tomato]

Hi everyone I am working on an episode of heretic based solely around puzzles instead of fighting. I am thinking that it would probably be fun to release the levels one at a time as I finish them.

Here are some screen shots from the first level.

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Finished the first puzzle

Eyestalks

More Eyestalks

Flying Bricks bounce off the glass floor

Hints for Level 1

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Puzzle #1
Watch how the far side changes as you touch the buttons.

Puzzle #2
Hit the Eyes with your staff to turn them.

Puzzle #3
If you cant get the key to fall in the hole without going back out try moving it around a bit.

Puzzle #4
The switches correspond to clockwise and counter clockwise.

Puzzle #5
If you stand on top of an eyestalk and face the same direction it does you can see where it will go.

Puzzle #6
This puzzle is simply the mastermind game.

Puzzle #7
One of the switches only changes itself and one never changes, if you can’t see which switches are getting changes use chase cam mode.

Solutions

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Puzzle #1
Each button corresponds to a number based on how many fingers it has.
Click the 4 buttons until their total is 9.

Puzzle #2
Each eyestalk can only shoot at an eyestalk of the opposite color.
Also the blocks are numbered in the order that the magic beam will pass it.
The beams will travel through the dark holes and out another dark hole.
One the beam hits the trident symbol your done.

Puzzle #3
The easiest solution it to make the key travel around the maze rather than through it, just use switch #3 and switch #2.
If the key gets stuck going over the hole then just move it into a wall and try again you will get it eventually.

Puzzle #4
This one work by moving in the direction that the switch was pressed then toggling the fire. So if you Hit ‘>’ ‘>’ ‘<’ with statues like ‘Lit’ ‘Unlit’ ‘Lit’ ‘Lit’ they will go like
‘Lit’ ‘Lit’ ‘Lit’ ‘Lit’
‘Lit’ ‘Lit’ ‘Unlit’ ‘Lit’
‘Lit’ ‘Unlit’, ‘Unlit’ ‘Lit’
The solution is:
> > > < > > > > < > > > > > < > > <

Puzzle #5
For this one the beam will have to take a long route
Other than that its similar to #2

Puzzle #6
A Red fountain says that you have a good rune in its correct spot.
A Blue fountain says that you have a good rune but its in the wrong spot.
Since this puzzle is random each time you have to figure it out yourself.
Just google mastermind if you have trouble.

Puzzle #7
All of the switches must show the same number and that is ‘1’
Hit them in order from left to right
1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,3,3,2,2,2,2

If you have any cool ideas for puzzles pm me and I will see if I cam make it.

Edit 1 Put Screenshots in spoiler

[Unholypimpin]

not bad , saddly i hate puzzles. headache maddness!!!

also please put the pictures in a spoiler because they take alot of room =[

[XutaWoo]

I can't seem to figure out how to do the first puzzle. There's three stones but two switches, and I can't figure out which ones should be changed.

[Evil Space Tomato]

I can't seem to figure out how to do the first puzzle. There's three stones but two switches, and I can't figure out which ones should be changed.

There are 4 switches, 2 on each side and if you still dont get it you can look at the spoilers

[Gez]

Those are fun. I love the eyeball puzzle, quite simple but nice. (Those eyeballs are just too cute, I want one as a pet.)

[TypeSaucy]

i can use an eyeball for one of the quake 3 classes that im making.

[Dreadopp]

Looks and sounds interesting. I'll give it a whirl.

[neoworm]

Realy nice. Some puzzles were confusing but overall I liked it very much. I will tell you when I will need some puzzles in some map.

[Dreadopp]

I just played through this and I thought it was pretty good. I, too, really liked the eyeball puzzles.

[Project Shadowcat]

Some really nice stuff here. I had a bit of fun with this.

[Evil Space Tomato]

Thank you all for the kind remarks Puzzle world level 2 is nearly done.

I hope to finish it before the end of this week, enjoy these screen shots.

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[MartinHowe]

an episode of heretic based solely around puzzles instead of fighting

Didn't Ravensoft do one in the mid 1990s? IIRC it was called "Hexen" or something like that

Seriously, for what it is it looks good... but I absolutely HATE puzzles, so I won't be playing it I gave up on HeXen in 1997 because I got fed up of killing every demon in sight, then spending 200 years finding yet another bloody key or switch before I could get to kill any more demons.

I did enjoy one HeXen WAD though because it was light on the puzzles and heavy on the monsters. Wish I could remember which one it was.

[Tormentor667]

Definitely an interesting approach of editing for Heretic. I like it but make sure to design the puzzles solvable and intuitive.

[Evil Space Tomato]

Didn't Ravensoft do one in the mid 1990s? IIRC it was called "Hexen" or something like that…

I hated the many of the puzzles in Hexen too.

Definitely an interesting approach of editing for Heretic. I like it but make sure to design the puzzles solvable and intuitive.

I am trying to make the puzzles like Myst so that you have to do a bit of skull scratching to solve them without being to obtuse.

The wait is over for level 2 (for those who don’t hate me for making boring puzzle levels)
This level will be a bit harder than the last one

http://www.humenet.net/brainofbrian/Gam ... uzzle2.rar

Bugs

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Puzzle #3
The crystal guy sometimes wanders around before changing a tile sometimes hitting him with the stick helps

Puzzle #5
If this puzzle is unsolvable there is a way to skip it.

Hints for Level 2

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Puzzle #1
Try to spell something.

Puzzle #2
The blue and red circle tiles can drag the eyestalks toward them.
If the slow moving magic ball is going to fast you can make a brown eye face a green eye and just bounce it back and forth while you set up for it to continue.

Puzzle #3
When the crystal golem zaps tiles the change color back an forth.

Puzzle #4
The colored zigzags can only be passed by a key of the same color.
The magnet tiles will re-center the key if you sit on them for a sec.

Puzzle #5
The 3 numbers represent some sort of distance and the number switch is speed.

Puzzle #6
Look for these symbols around the level.

Puzzle #7
This puzzle is just the Tower of Hanoi game.

Solutions

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Puzzle #1
[TE] [LE] [PO] [RT]

Puzzle #2
Get the first 3 movable stalks to shoot the magic ball until it is hitting the stationary eyes then let it loop around the stationary eyes while you set them up in the positions to get the magic ball to the B rune

Puzzle #3
Just move the golem around and when you turn a tile the wrong color back track and this puzzle will be done quickly

Puzzle #4
The fastest route is up, right, BLUE, up left, teleport, right, YELLOW, up, right, teleport, right, teleport, small left, up, right, down, teleport, down, teleport, down, teleport, GREEN, up, finish

Puzzle #5
The arrow switches move it in a certin direction and the claw switch controls speed 1 being 1 unit, 2 being 2 units, 3 being 4 units
The claws on top represent the number of units away the blue sphere is from its goal,
Fist move is close using fast speed then set it to the exact position using slow speed.
If all else fails then move it near the teleport and jump the fence.

Puzzle #6
The symbols in order from bottom to top are Star Rune, B Rune, Angled C Rune, F Rune, Square Rune, YZ Rune.

Puzzle #7
This puzzle is just the Tower of Hanoi game. Start by moving the smallest block onto the blue tower and the go from there…

[neoworm]

I almost finished second word (stopped at blue orb puzzle). But there is one thing I want to share with you:

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Second puzzle can be solved by spoiling the movable eyes. I finished it with only 6 bounces.