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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.
FROSTFURROW: Slow Growth Moves the Year Remix
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.
KEYWARD: Every Cut Moves the Pins
An original deterministic fine-pixel locksmith work simulation. A key blank starts at depth zero across four to seven teeth. Filing permanently increases one selected depth. Brushing clears physical burrs. Torque inserts the current profile into standard, spool, shielded and master-wafer pin stacks and records shear, binding, void and scratch evidence.
SHEARLOOM — The Jacquard Night Works
SHEARLOOM is an original portrait-first drag-place block elimination game. Three silk cuttings share one tray. Drag each fixed shape into open cells of the 8×8 loom; every complete row or column clears, preserving the familiar Block Blast hand verb.
ROOMSHIFT: Every Service Moves the Hotel
ROOMSHIFT is a deterministic hotel-service and sliding-room puzzle. Nine named room entities own furniture, door masks and occupants. Bellhop can cross only mutually open seams; every completed service slides that room row and carries everyone inside to a new physical coordinate.
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.
MNEMOSHIFT: The Midnight Memory Hotel
An original portrait-first hidden-pair memory game in which a successful match does not leave the remaining board still. Every guest pair departs from its physical source rooms, then exchanges the occupants of two published rooms. Neutral Night Key serials stay on the card backs, so remembered information moves but remains accountable.
PAINWARD · Every Cure Moves the Wound
PAINWARD is an original portrait-first tactical puzzle about conserved harm. Before every enemy strike, the Saint must pass exactly one wound between adjacent members of a four-hero covenant. Pain matching its bearer's sigil powers the party's automatic answer; pain beyond a bearer's visible heart capacity breaks the covenant.
FLAGBOUND: Every Carrier Moves the Front
An original deterministic fine-pixel capture-the-flag relay. Swift and Ward infiltrate a physical eleven-cell front against Raider and Sentry. Both flags retain home, carried or dropped state, an exact position and an optional carrier. Tags consume guard or reset the tagged runner while dropping any carried flag onto the real field. Stepping onto a dropped friendly standard returns it; stepping onto an enemy standard carries it. A capture is legal only when the enemy flag crosses home while the team's own flag is home.
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.
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.
BELLHARROW · Every Toll Moves the Dead
BELLHARROW is an original portrait-first dark pixel tactics game. Drag the funeral rope to preview one cardinal step. Every sworn dead declares its destination at the same time; release to toll, move the Bellwarden, and resolve all vows together. Enemies that claim the same stone, cross through one another, or enter tomb-teeth shatter into a scored funeral chain.
FAUNAWARD: The Biome Moves First
FAUNAWARD is a standalone functional-creature ecology tactics game. The player never steers an animal. Select a cell, place one public environmental cue, and every creature executes its written priority in a fixed order. Seven authored habitat contracts require exact mutualisms before the deadline, disturbance limit, or unguarded predation invalidates the field.
COREWAKE: Every Crater Moves the Orbit
COREWAKE is an original single-player fine-pixel planetary excavation and orbital rescue puzzle. Twelve visible radial sectors contain authored stacks of basalt, iron, ice, core samples, habitats and protected rootstone. A Drill Lance removes one frontier; Clockwise and Counter Shears remove linked frontiers while publishing different tangential impulses. Every timed intent advances a courier through twelve discrete nodes and three discrete orbit bands. Removed mass changes the remaining integer mass moment, which accumulates as a visible radial Wake. Debris persists on exact nodes. Trim fuel
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.
LASTSEAT: Every Bell Moves the Crowd
LASTSEAT is a deterministic musical-chairs party survival game. Each public action moves Mara and advances every active Bot one clockwise mark. On the third beat, the Bell assigns every physical chair by circular distance; Mara must land exactly on a published chair to displace one rival.
SHEARLOOM — The Jacquard Night Works Remix
SHEARLOOM is an original portrait-first drag-place block elimination game. Three silk cuttings share one tray. Drag each fixed shape into open cells of the 8×8 loom; every complete row or column clears, preserving the familiar Block Blast hand verb.
RECOILLINE · Every Shot Moves the Battery
A standalone deterministic chain-push tower defense. Four stable cannons occupy
COUNTERCROWN · Every Blow Moves the Prize
COUNTERCROWN is a standalone portrait-first fine-pixel court brawler built around one conserved-impact law. A successful blow pushes its target with the attack while the one physical Crown moves exactly one square against it. Hostile blows use the same interpreter. Victory is not damage: dock the Crown on the moon dais before the public bell closes.
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.
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.
LOCOMANTLE: The Factory Moves or Dies
A standalone Minecraft-inspired moving-factory defense game. Route a physical locomotive across an eight-station rail graph; every departure advances material exactly one wagon: Hopper → Crusher → Foundry → Lead Works. Press rail for Ironspan, recouple an Arsenal for automatic defense, and use the Rivet Rig to make the train repair itself.