Crystal Rain Forest V2 screenshots

The game's title screen

The game's overview explains the story, the teacher options and the puzzle structure

There are four Game Modes Adventure is the full story In Activity the player sees just the puzzles Teacher configures the game Crystal Logo allows free programming

The start of Adventure Mode The game remembers where the player has reached

The first few screens set the story and introduce the player to the controls Red squares like this are meant to be clicked on, in this case it brings up a picture of Bridgetown

Here's the king protecting his forest with a sign

The king has been shot by a poisoned arrow and is very ill.

The first puzzle. The player must control the robot and make it walk to the red DOOR switch

The game immediately begins to introduce control elements. It's not enough to issue a Walk instruction, the player must say how far the robot must walk

Exploring the city looking for the professor The directional controls to navigate the city are one step more advanced than puzzle one.

Exploring the city When a location is reached the SEARCH button on the map view lights up This is Esme, she has a puzzle for us

The bridge puzzle is a sort of Tetris variant made more difficult because the Shape 1, Shape 2 etc symbols do not match the blocks that are floated downstream

In this puzzle the player must resize the packages do that they fit into the railway carriages

The Help function tells the player what to expect next

The Museum shop uses a right/left pointer and angular displacement to select items

Here the player must draw lines between the dots in the right colour to start the engine of their boat

Having escaped from the gang the player must navigate the waterways using the increasingly familiar commands for the right/left pointer and angular displacement

After using the navigation commands manually the game introduces the idea of planning ahead and programming the on-board computer

Having introduced the idea of a program while navigating the river the game builds on that to mend some rope bridges It provides the first few commands and the player must complete the program

The pictures are static, the water for example does not move, but they are very well done

This puzzle sees the player writing a routine that will draw a square, later they will produce another routine that draws a triangle. Both will be combined into a program that draws a pattern

The player created subroutines to draw square and triangular nets and a program that generated them in the correct sequence. Now they must use them to catch the crates of poison

Here the player must use the professors computer to recreate this shape. Some lines have been put in to help them get started

Good news! The king is cured by the magic crystal medicine

The king wants a logo for his forestry protection scheme. This brings all the commands and methods taught by the game together in one exercise

The End and everyone lives happily ever after

Crystal Rain Forest V2

Windows screenshots