The Dungeon Puzzler's Lament

What happens if the heroes suddenly stop being able to solve your puzzles?

You are the puzzle designer for a dungeon. No, you prefer to think of yourself as a visionary architect. A fiendish master of traps and puzzles designed to foil any attempts from so-called heroes to reach the treasure.

However, something changed recently. Heroes keep moving the same way, in predictable patterns. They aren't trying to solve your puzzles any more, or fight the monsters you've carefully placed to ambush them!

Looks like you'll have to apply your unique talents in other ways. Get the hero through the dungeon and maybe they'll snap out of it?

The dungeon puzzler's lament is a game for the Gameboy Advance built in 48 hours for the GMTK Game Jam 2023.

Controls

Since this is a game for the Gameboy Advance, buttons are referred to as if they were on the console. The default key bindings are as follows:

Gameboy Advance button	Button on your keyboard	In game action
A	Z	Select
B	X	Cancel
Up	Up arrow	Move cursor up
Down	Down arrow	Move cursor down
Left	Left arrow	Move cursor left
Right	Right arrow	Move cursor right
Start	Enter	Send hero on their way
Select	Backspace	Open menu

You can remap the keys by pressing Escape.

Credits

Art and programming - Gwilym Inzani and Corwin Kuiper
Background music - Soft mysterious harp by VWolfDog

Spoilers for the puzzles

Don't read ahead unless you're stuck!

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