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Steam page is live - Wishlist now!
August 03, 2024 by Andrew Jones
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#steam, #wishlist, #trailier
Trifoil is an in development line drawing puzzle game. It's due to be released on itch.io and steam for PC. Follow Trifoil development as I take it from a prototype to a full featured Indie game by fo... Continue reading
Rough edit of the reveal trailer on youtube
July 24, 2024 by Andrew Jones#trailer, #youtube
Trifoil is an in development line drawing puzzle game. It's due to be released on itch.io and steam for PC. Follow Trifoil development as I take it from a prototype to a full featured Indie game by fo... Continue reading
Pre-demo alpha build ready for play testing
June 30, 2024 by Andrew Jones#alpha, #build, #demo, #update
Trifoil is an in development line drawing puzzle game. It's due to be released on itch.io and steam for PC. Follow Trifoil development as I take it from a prototype to a full featured Indie game by fo... Continue reading
Demo on Steam soon
June 22, 2024 by Andrew Jones
Trifoil is an in development line drawing puzzle game. It's due to be released on itch.io and steam for PC. Follow Trifoil development as I take it from a prototype to a full featured Indie game by fo... Continue reading
Adding TJunction mechanic
June 22, 2024 by Andrew Jones
Trifoil is an in development line drawing puzzle game. It's due to be released on itch.io and steam for PC. Follow Trifoil development as I take it from a prototype to a full featured Indie game by fo... Continue reading
Introduction to the first 4 mechanics
June 06, 2023 by Andrew Jones#2d, #puzzlegame, #puzzle
Trifoil is an in development line drawing puzzle game. It's due to be released on itch.io and steam for PC. Follow Trifoil development as I take it from a prototype to a full featured Indie game by fo... Continue reading
Back at it and revamp of the tutorial section
April 21, 2023 by Andrew Jones#puzzle, #2d, #casual, #linedrawing
Trifoil is an in development line drawing puzzle game. It's due to be released on itch.io and steam for PC. Follow Trifoil development as I take it from a prototype to a full featured Indie game by fo... Continue reading
Log 18: Private alpha release and updated the itch.io
January 04, 2022 by Andrew Jones#demo, #alpha
Trifoil is an underdevelopment puzzle/exploration game which takes influence for The Witness and Knot Theory. It's due to be released early 2023 on itch.io and steam. In the mean time follow Trifoil d... Continue reading
Log 17: Puzzle count == 47
December 17, 2021 by Andrew Jones#camera, #level design, #update
Trifoil is an underdevelopment puzzle/exploration game which takes influence for The Witness and Knot Theory. It's due to be released early 2023 on itch.io and steam. In the mean time follow Trifoil d... Continue reading
Log 16: Rewrote the movement and tail systems
December 02, 2021 by Andrew Jones#design, #coding, #movement
Trifoil is an underdevelopment puzzle/exploration game which takes influence for The Witness and Knot Theory. It's due to be released late 2022 on itch.io and steam. In the mean time follow Trifoil de... Continue reading
Log #15: Post break rethink
October 06, 2021 by Andrew Jones
Trifoil is an underdevelopment puzzle/exploration game which takes influence for The Witness and Knot Theory. It's due to be released late 2022 on itch.io and steam. In the mean time follow Trifoil de... Continue reading
Log 14: Onward towards the steam page
July 03, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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#progresss, #update, #feedback
Trifoil is an underdevelopment puzzle/exploration game which takes influence for The Witness and Knot Theory. It's due to be released early 2022 on itch.io and steam. In the mean time follow Trifoil d... Continue reading
Log 13: Level building in progress
June 10, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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#level design, #data driving, #puzzles
Trifoil is an underdevelopment puzzle/exploration game which takes influence for The Witness and Knot Theory. It's due to be released late 2021 on itch.io and steam. In the mean time enjoy playing the... Continue reading
Log 12: Trifoil has a player character!
June 03, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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#character, #player character, #gamedesign, #solo dev, #graphics
Trifoil is an underdevelopment puzzle/exploration game which takes influence for The Witness and Knot Theory. It's due to be released late 2021 on itch.io and steam. In the mean time enjoy playing the... Continue reading
Log 11: So what's next for Trifoil
May 25, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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#parallax, #exploration, #backgound
So the "prototype phase" of development is done! Very happy with how it turned out. Gotten heaps of feedback and people say they really enjoy it. Which is great! I've now turned my attention to start... Continue reading
Trifoil has a complete graphics update
May 15, 2021 by Andrew Jones#graphics, #vfx, #shaders, #graphics update
This release is another big milestone for Trifoil. Trifoil is a line drawing puzzle game that take inspiration from Knot Theory and The Witness. This release is a playable prototype with complete grap... Continue reading
LOG 9 - Evolution of the tail effect
May 14, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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#gamedesign, #design, #shaders, #vfx, #graphics
Hello for this week's post I'm going in depth about the evolution of the tail effect. From flat color that was released in the last prototype to what you see below. Bit of a difference (: The tail eff... Continue reading
LOG 8 - Discussion about improving visual and prototype progress
May 04, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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#vfx, #visuals, #prototype, #design, #readability, #effects, #puzzle
It's been a massive couple of weeks for Trifoil. I'm made the first VFX updates and the prototype has been released for general download! First off let talk about the new eye candy: Now the prototype... Continue reading
Playable prototype released!
April 26, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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#prototype, #release, #puzzle, #puzzlegame, #abstract, #milestone, #linedrawing
Trifoil has reached a major milestone, the playable prototype is out! It has over 60 handcrafted puzzles. Download it from https://andrew-jones.itch.io/trifoil . The point of the prototype is to test... Continue reading
Discussion about puzzle design: Free Twists
April 22, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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#gamemechanic, #puzzle, #puzzlegame, #design, #decision
The passed week and a half I've implemented the last "prototype" puzzle mechanic: Free Twists : Free twists take the twist puzzle element from earlier in the game and flip it on it's head by allowing... Continue reading
Freeform Mechanic
April 13, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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#puzzle, #puzzlegame, #trifoil, #wip, #mechanic, #gamemechanic, #puzzleelement
This week I've been working on the freeform bridge puzzle mechanic. This mechanic turns the previous puzzles on their head by allowing the player to make bridges at any point on the grid. The puzzle c... Continue reading
Decision to remove "visit all tiles" rule
April 07, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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While creating puzzles for the "Twists" area, I noticed that the "visit every tile" rule was: A potential source of frustration, as the player could finish the puzzle with all bridges and twists corre... Continue reading
Twist mechanic
March 28, 2021 by Andrew Jones
Happy Sunday, with a simple save system finished, this week I've been implementing the "twist" puzzle rule area. Twist tiles differ from knot tiles as the line does not cross over itself on a twist ti... Continue reading
Trifoil has a save system
March 21, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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#prototype, #puzzle, #save system
Been a busy week. As the next milestone will contain about 40-50 puzzles and some of those puzzles being on the hard side. The Trifoil prototype will not be easily completed in one sitting. That means... Continue reading
Itch.io page is up
March 13, 2021 by Andrew Jones
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#trifoil, #puzzle, #prototype
Well, I was not expecting people asking where they can follow the game quite so quickly, but they did. So I put together this Itch.io page to act as a hub for information about the game. Expect regula... Continue reading