April 2025 – Imagine Beyond

Hey folks, and welcome back!

This past week has been a little less about moving robots around and a lot more about laying the foundations to actually finish this game the right way. It’s not the most glamorous part of development, but it’s absolutely necessary.

🧰 What I’ve Been Working On

🖥️ Website Overhaul – I gave imaginebeyond-games.com some much-needed love, including setting up this DevLog section. It’s officially the home base for all game updates from here on out.

📚 Business Planning – I’ve been focusing heavily on getting the business side of things in order — writing a full business plan, planning out next steps, and making sure Imagine Beyond Games has a real shot at long-term success.

🧩 Game Design Document – Progress here too: fleshing out the core systems, puzzle mechanics, and robot behavior so I have a solid blueprint to work from as development ramps up.

🐦 Twitter (X) Setup – I’m not usually big on social media, but I’ve set up a Twitter account for quick updates, screenshots, and dev thoughts. If you like seeing confused robots (and mildly confused devs), it’ll be a good time.

🛠️ Level Editor Polish – I managed to squeeze in a little work on the level editor inside Unity — not as much as I would’ve liked, but some progress is better than none. The custom room-building tools are already making prototyping way faster.

📌 What’s Coming Next

Continue refining the business plan and design doc
More level editor improvements
Prepping the first playable rooms
Getting the robot ready to show off publicly

🙃 Final Thought

Game dev sometimes means writing more documents than code — and that’s okay.
Every piece of planning I finish now is a piece of chaos I won’t have to deal with later.

Thanks for sticking around while I build the unsexy but essential side of the project.
Next week, I’m hoping for a little more action and a little less paperwork.

– Chris

Hey there, and welcome to the very first devlog for my mobile puzzle game — name pending, robot approved.

This is something I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid glued to Super Mario Bros. on the NES. I’ve worked in software development for years, earned a degree in Game Design along the way, and spent more time than I’ll admit just “tinkering” in Unity. But now? I’m really doing it.

🔧 What I’m Building

This game is a free-to-play mobile puzzle game where you control a small robot and navigate hand-crafted rooms filled with logic-based challenges — switches, gates, obstacles, and whatever else I cook up between coffee breaks. No timers, no lives to refill, no shady ads every 3 seconds. Just puzzles and chill robot vibes.

I’m aiming for something smart, clean, and satisfying — a game that respects your time and doesn’t shove monetization in your face. There might be optional ads, and maybe a way to buy extra hints or lives, but those features will never be the core of the game. You’ll be able to pay once to remove ads forever if you want to. Fair and simple.

🛠️ What’s Done So Far

So far, I’ve got:

A working movement system for the robot
A grid-based room structure that supports obstacles and interactive elements
Prefabs for switches, gates, and goals
Level loading from text files (so I can design quickly and flexibly)
A basic non-rectangular room layout system that will let me make weird, interesting puzzles

Right now, the robot can walk, bump into stuff, and get confused. Same, buddy.

🧪 What’s Next

Finish the prototype before May 1st
Launch a one-week Kickstarter to raise $4,500 so I can keep working full-time on the game
Set up a community Discord where backers and players can help name the game, suggest ideas, and test early builds

💬 A Question for You

Would you rather see the robot with wheels, legs, or some kind of floaty hover system?
I’ve got a soft spot for hover-bots, but I’m open to being outvoted.

🙌 Thanks for Reading

This devlog is going to be pretty chill. I’ll post updates here each week (or when something big happens), and I’ll keep it honest — the wins, the bugs, the coffee-fueled code sprees. If you’re into that kind of thing, stick around.

Thanks for being here. Let’s see where this robot goes.