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Alice and Rabbit have lost themselves in a bewildering hedge maze. The day is coming to an end, and they are anxious to get home before it is too dark to find the way.
one buttonone buttonAlice Amazed is a one switch game for one or two players. That is, each player uses only a single button or switch for character control. This makes the game more accessible to people with certain disabilities, but it is nevertheless a fun game for everyone.
Your goal is to escape the haunted maze, as either Alice or Rabbit, by crossing the river that separates it from home. It is not as easy as finding the correct path, however. The bridge needed to cross the river has been dismantled and hidden inside an enchanted chest somewhere in the maze. To find and open this chest you must collect enough points, through a selection of minigames and challenges, to break its magic seal.

A game controlled entirely with one button? If you've never made one before, how can you resist that kind of challenge? Well, we couldn't, and despite having wasted a quarter of the alloted time by not yet knowing about the competition, we just had to give it a try. So we decided to make something simple...

Let's say we bit off more than we could chew with this one. The original draft called for 16 minigames. When the first of these coalesced into a Wonderland themed game and we realized the level of detail we had committed to, this was quickly revised to 10 (including the bonus pyramid). Despite an impromptu vacation from work and a 100+ hour final week of frenetic game making, the competition release came with only five of these, out of which three had no AI to speak of. The remaining games, while already in this version but without graphics and with no easy access, were put on hold.

Still, we were quite surprised with the amount of depth that can be given a one switch game. This project became an eye opener to understanding how the fun in simple game ideas can be amplified by eliminating unnecessary complexity in the controls.

The current version comes with plenty of bug fixes and improvements, including a better overall game balance and one more minigame.

Originally created for the One Switch competition arranged and hosted by:

 
 
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