BoxWorld

Puzzle games are in wide usage today, and are especially recommended for children as they can play quite a vital role in the development of the problem solving and logical skills of the player. Often these puzzle games involve a stiff constraint of time, thereby making the user demonstrate some speed and accuracy. Due to their utility as good entertainers along with being nice short leisure time spending exercises, a number of such games like Tetris, bejeweled, mahjong etc. have been developed for playing on PC. One such comprehensive game which is certain to be liked by every class of users- irrespective of their age or gender is BoxWorld v.1.14.

BoxWorld is a freeware game involving the puzzle of placing the boxes at right places. The game involves 2D arcade style interface with interesting characters and layout and a combination of hot keys for basic functionalities. The target of the player is to place the boxes at the required places in order to gain energy for proceeding to the next level by pressing the Spacebar. The main constraint is that the boxes can be pushed in four directions only in the empty spaces with an obstacle from walls and bricks lying in the way. There are fair chances of a player getting stuck in the game where he can not find any potential movement of boxes. In such a case, he has to sacrifice a chance by pressing the “R” key and restart the level from the scratch again. The game has about 525 levels with increasing difficulty and a precise functionality of saving and loading the game.

Overall, BoxWorld v.1.14 is a comprehensive game with a number of challenging levels, with increasing difficulty, thus requiring a lot of use of strategy and logic on the part of player. Hence, it receives a score of three and a half rating points on the scale of five.

BoxWorld is a puzzle game, where the player have to place boxes over special places in order to gain energy for teleport to the next level. If the player gets stuck by placing boxes in unappropriate places, he can retry the current stage, by pressing the R key, but this will cost a life. If all the lives are exhausted - the game is over. The boxes can be only pushed, but not pulled, thus requiring ordering of the boxes with caution. The game features nice graphics, enjoyable music and 525 mindboggling levels for completion. Because the stages are so many and hard to be completed in a single session, the progress can be saved with the press of the S key on the keyboard, which later can be loaded with the L key. The Space key teleports to the next puzzle, but only if the current puzzle was already completed in previous game. There is no chronometer for the level, so the player can relax and think on the level, before pushing, without the pressure of external factors, except the world itself. With the progress of the game, the puzzles are getting harder and harder. The player have to come up with more complex strategies on the later levels, with much more pushes and special tricks in order to place the boxes in corners or long corridors. Sometime most of the boxes are already placed in the appropriate area, but the player have to replace all the boxes just to be able to move another box and arrange it where it belongs.