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GLOAMSHOT · Every Shot Moves the Shooter
GLOAMSHOT is an original portrait-first deterministic recoil-bloom puzzle. The living Sower fires a flare North, East, South or West. The ray travels in the chosen direction while the Sower moves exactly one open cell in the opposite direction. Every command therefore authors two coupled paths: what the flare changes and where its shooter must land.
COPPICEWAY: Every Chop Moves the Forest.
COPPICEWAY is an original portrait-first fine-pixel spatial puzzle about conserved tree material. Walk into a valid standing tree to fell it. The trunk lands one cell forward as a permanent bridge; the far bank receives the player; the crown obeys the tree's immutable lean and roots one perpendicular cell away as a permanent sapling. One action therefore opens water and closes land.
BELLWRAITH · Every Rest Moves the Dead
A complete portrait-first fine-pixel rhythm tactics game. Compose four public beats, then conduct them across a three-lane funeral bridge. Toll spends two Resonance to strike the nearest shade. Chime spends one to pierce its full lane. Rest restores two Resonance and raises one Ward—but every Pall Bearer follows silence.
PARALLAX HOUSE
**Every Window Moves a Room** is a portrait-first spatial projection puzzle about sliding three depth panes until cloud bridges, architecture and garden rails become one walkable path.
SPARSHIFT · Every Leap Moves the Launch
SPARSHIFT is an original portrait-first recoil-platform precision puzzle. Pip Vane leaps forward across the broken High Aviary while the spar beneath her feet moves in the exact opposite direction. The body route and the abandoned world's route are one indivisible action.
Verdigris Court
A portrait solo bluffing game against three distinct court intelligences. Four witnesses conceal moon glyphs under enamel cups. Swear an escalating quantity and phase, or call Doubt. Crown faces are wild for the other five phases. A failed challenge removes a seal; the last witness with seals wins the court.
Parallax Post
A portrait-first coupled-orrery puzzle. Rotate local, transit, and deep-space address rings; each gear ratio moves more than one sky layer. Deliver six increasingly difficult celestial letters before calibration runs out.
AQUELLE · The Last Drop Moves the First
AQUELLE is a standalone portrait-first water-marbling strategy game. Seven named ink spirits enter a circular bath through one-use spouts. Every new arrival physically pushes and curls every elder spirit according to that elder's stable flow law. Keep all identities inside the waterline and finish each one over its own flower seal.
TOWLINE: Every Harpoon Moves Both Hulls
An original portrait-first reciprocal-harpoon tactics game. A cast does not drag a passive target: every paired step moves the player's tug one chart cell toward the marked hull and moves that exact hostile hull one cell back along the same public bearing. The new positions immediately determine reef damage, collision and surviving return fire.
FROSTFURROW: Slow Growth Moves the Year
FROSTFURROW is a standalone portrait-first Minecraft crop-calendar puzzle inspired by the crop-fertility and protected-growth ideas popularized by Serene Seasons. Its central system is original: one off-season open-field crop takes two seasons instead of one, so a local planting choice moves the global calendar and changes every contract that follows.
MISTRUMENT: Every Command Moves the Liar
An original portrait-first tactile deduction game set inside a drowned glass-chapel bathyscaphe. One gauge always mirrors its true value. Every command moves the fault to a new circuit node, then reverses that newly faulted system's physical response.
VERDICTWEAVE: Every Exhibit Moves the Jury
VERDICTWEAVE is an original single-player fine-pixel jury-proof puzzle. Three false claims enter a fictional clockwork court. Pressing one publishes the witness's exact reply and focuses jurors whose visible interest matches Time, Route or Trace. Presenting the one truthful contradiction converts focus, authored audience reach and the moving attention lamp into visible certainty. An unbarred rebuttal removes its published proof step. Close only after every claim is broken and all five jurors independently hold three proof steps.
TILTLOOT: Every Prize Moves the House
TILTLOOT is a portrait-first papercraft balance-heist puzzle. Guide Wren, a tiny silk-moth courier, through a hanging house where the player, held loot, loose prizes, pinned heirlooms and basketed prizes all keep physical mass.
Ember Throne · Every Decree Moves Four Houses
An original, touch-first court governance game. Swipe each decree left or right while keeping People, Grain, Ember, and the Great Houses away from ruin or excess. Conditional decrees remember earlier rulings; eight failure endings and one survival ending complete the loop.
POLDERWATCH · Every Pump Moves the Tide
POLDERWATCH is a standalone portrait-first field tower defense. The attacking enemy is an integer sheet of living salt water, not a queue of walkers. Powered windpumps transfer real field volume into finite crystallizer pans; they never delete it. A wet copper cell cuts the physical route from the engine house, while a glass datum raises terrain and displaces—rather than erases—the trapped brine.
AFTERBLADE · The Enemy Moves Before Return
An original portrait-first deterministic tactics game. A single cast samples one spatial ray twice: the bronze edge crosses it outbound, every surviving shade follows its published intent, and the ivory edge returns through the same cells after the battlefield has changed.
MIGRAWARD · Every Reading Moves the Sickness
An original portrait-first moving-target deduction game. Six impossible creatures arrive at a night veterinary ward. Every instrument gives a truthful binary reading over its visibly marked anatomy chambers, then moves the hidden anomaly along a published direction. The player must update the possible-position set, follow the migration, and seal the exact chamber.
QUADWAKE: Every Bounce Moves the Court.
QUADWAKE is a deterministic Four Square puzzle about a ball that keeps moving while the physical court beneath it is rewritten and rearranged.
UMBRAIL: Every Shot Moves the Shade
UMBRAIL is a five-court, eight-bearing solar tactics game. A shot resolves damage, turns the public Sun, recomputes three obelisk shadows, and then advances only the surviving bodies left in light. The attack and the next defensive board state are therefore one decision.
DUSTLITANY · Every Stroke Moves the Whole Line
An original portrait-first conservation puzzle. Swipe across any mosaic cell: every loose residue in that row or column compresses toward the stroke. A residue leaves the artifact only when the leading piece matches the collector at that edge. Every effective stroke rotates every collector to its next material, so routing and timing are one decision.
Tidewright Borough · Every Bridge Moves the Water
A standalone, portrait-first Three.js connectivity puzzle. Place turnbridges, cross-ferries, and tide sluices to connect every household to the high beacon; each construction step advances a level-specific flood schedule.
HUSHFRAME · Every Photograph Moves the Flock
A standalone portrait field-photography puzzle. Place a two-by-two viewfinder, satisfy ordered exact-composition plates, and account for the rule that every photographed bird immediately advances along its visible cyclic route. A nonmatching exposure is still a real state change.
UMBRAIL: Every Shot Moves the Shade
UMBRAIL is a five-court, eight-bearing solar tactics game. A shot resolves damage, turns the public Sun, recomputes three obelisk shadows, and then advances only the surviving bodies left in light. The attack and the next defensive board state are therefore one decision.
VERDICTWEAVE: Every Exhibit Moves the Jury
VERDICTWEAVE is an original single-player fine-pixel jury-proof puzzle. Three false claims enter a fictional clockwork court. Pressing one publishes the witness's exact reply and focuses jurors whose visible interest matches Time, Route or Trace. Presenting the one truthful contradiction converts focus, authored audience reach and the moving attention lamp into visible certainty. An unbarred rebuttal removes its published proof step. Close only after every claim is broken and all five jurors independently hold three proof steps.