Releasing 'Exponential Expansion'

Exponential Expansion is a short puzzle game made for the 2024 Game Maker's Toolkit Jam.

With the jam's theme of 'Built to Scale' I was inspired to make a puzzle game where the player grows, and their sense of scale increases over the course of the puzzle. I try to convey this a number of ways: with the camera zooming out, the player's movement sound pitch-shifting down, and of course with the player growing as they absorb more blocks. Secondarily, you complete a puzzle by weighing down a 'scale', with each puzzle requiring the player to grow to different sizes and make different shapes.

Some of the new development challenges I focused on with this game include:

- Save state and unlockable levels

- Discrete player movement on a grid

- Collider manipulation and calculating overlapping areas

- And as always, puzzle design and a smooth difficulty curve

I hope you enjoy!

- Ryan