Causal Order

Causal Order is a sokoban game, with a twist:

Normally, as a player you control the movements you do in spatial dimensions, like up, down, left or right. In Causal Order you instead work in the temporal dimension. You can't choose which way Frank will move, but you get to decide when he moves. The roles of space and time have been reversed into a time-space-thing.

Frank's world is filled with dangerous holes in the floor. Make sure frank only moves when it is safe for him to do so. If Frank takes all his steps without plunging to his death, you have beat the level.

Reorder the moves at the bottom of the screen by dragging with the mouse. Hovering a move will show the path up to that point.

Created in 48 hours for GMTK Game Jam 2023.

Custom engine created during jam (Rust, wgpu, winit, trunk.rs)