Blackbox

Karolina Hagegård

About this game

Blackbox is a classic puzzle and logic game. The idea is that you have a black box inside which there are 4 (or so) atoms hidden in secret locations, and you want to find out where they are.

You can't look into the box, but you can shoot "light beams" into it. The light beams will interact with the atoms (being absorbed, bent or reflected), and so by observing what happens to the light beams, you will eventually be able to work out where the atoms are.

You can either play this game by yourself, letting the phone randomly hide the atoms for you, or you can log in to the game hub, where you can make setups for others to play and play setups that others have made. After some time, you will probably find that this is much more interesting than just the random setups! In the game hub, you will also be able to see what results other people got on a certain setup, and after you've played it yourself, you'll be able to see their answer.

In later versions, I want to develop private game "conversations", where you can share setups with only one person that nobody else will be able to play or see the results of.

Ratings and reviews

I love the game. Still have the game board version from a few decades back. The game works, and that helps me ignore some interface issues. 'Feels' like one of those apps that the developer lost interest in improving. The game could have greater potential with improvements.

It plays OK. Needs an option to instantly mark beams (by tapping or hold and drag). For now it can only mark atoms by tapping. So if I wanted to mark a long beam, I have to hold a tile, lift my finger, hold a tile, lift my finger, hold a tile, lift my finger, hold a tile, lift my finger, hold a tile, lift my finger... That gets annoying. A button to switch between marking beams or atoms would be nice, and dragging a line would be better.

Love it… the perfect logic game, played blackbox for years.

What’s new

Now, you can not only see what results other players got in the game hub, you can also review all the moves they made! It makes it so much more interesting.