Try it live Description
One Move is a short, cozy browser puzzle game, made as a gift for anyone who needs a little hope. Inside a wooden workshop in the woods, three little friends are waiting to reunite with Pangolux.
There are three stages. In each one, you choose a single mechanism to release and watch a chain of physical reactions unfold. A wrong choice ends in a soft catch and another chance; the right route brings the friends closer to home.
The workshop tells a small story of its own. The wind grows stronger from chapter to chapter, trees and hanging props respond, and a pot falls as the storm builds. After the final puzzle, an ornate glass door opens and an articulated wooden bridge carries the companions toward Pangolux. A moving camera and credits illustrated with pencil studies of the characters celebrate the reunion and the making of the world.
The author created and directed the game specifically for this contest, starting in E-Studio and continuing with OpenAI dot. OpenAI assisted with reference art, code and the pencil studies; the music was generated with Google Gemini and selected by the author, and apart from a door creak, the sound effects are procedural. The playable demo is in English and runs in the browser; on phones, landscape orientation is recommended.
How Tripo was used
Tripo is the core visual foundation of this world, not just decoration: the characters and many of the environment and prop models were generated with Tripo from image references.
- Characters: all four characters came from Tripo image-to-3D. The puzzle stages use companion sprites rendered from these models, and rigged 3D characters appear in the finale.
- Environment and props: the cabin, forest, cabinet and many props were also generated with Tripo from image references.
- Made playable: in Blender and Three.js, the author added pivots, cloth morphs and wind deformation, materials, lighting, animation transitions and sound, turning the models into a hinged glass door, an articulated bridge, a deforming cloth bag and wind-responsive scenery tied to runtime animation, lighting and physical reactions. Only some small runtime geometry remains procedural.
