Case study · Client name withheld

Nuts and Bolts Colour Sort

A colour-sorting logic puzzle with nuts and bolts

Each bolt holds a stack of coloured nuts. Only the top nut can move, and only onto an empty bolt or one whose top nut is the same colour. The level is solved when every bolt holds four nuts of one colour. Boosters such as undo and an extra bolt help with tricky levels.

Representative artwork: six steel bolts holding stacks of glossy hexagonal nuts — red, green, blue, two mixed pink-and-orange stacks, and three yellow nuts with a fourth descending onto them
Representative artwork recreated in the game's style for this portfolio — not a screenshot of the delivered game.
Client
Mobile game publisher
Platforms
Android
Our scope
Game development

The product

What it does, and for whom

A sorting puzzle with simple rules and real planning: the order of moves matters, and an empty bolt is the most valuable space on the board.

Scope The publisher runs the game and its store presence. To keep the client confidential, the game's name is withheld and every image on this page is new artwork recreated for this portfolio, not a screenshot of the delivered game.

Core loop

Solving a level

A level at the start: three bolts with mixed stacks of red, blue and green nuts — four of each colour — and two empty bolts.

Representative puzzle screen on a phone with a close-up: three bolts with mixed red, blue and green nuts — four of each colour — and two empty bolts
Representative artwork recreated for this portfolio.
  1. Move the top nut

    Only the top nut on a bolt can move.

  2. Match the colour

    It can go onto an empty bolt or a nut of the same colour.

  3. Sort every bolt

    The level is solved when each bolt holds one colour.

Our contribution

Our role

  1. Game development

    Development of the Android game for the publisher.

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