# Background story

'Portal Connect' is a simple (yet challenging) connecting puzzle game. Each level is randomly generated, guarantying that each level played is unique having multiple solutions. Levels progressively get more difficult the bigger the grid is.

# The Task

The player is presented with a grid full of colour couples. When the player steps on a colour, he is teleported to its matching colour. This process can only be done once for each colour. This makes each node of the colour either an input portal or an output portal.

Once a colour has been used, the player can teleport to a neighbour colour, where the same process occurs. Starting at the top left corner, the player must teleport his way through to the bottom right corner. Example: (3x4 grid)

# Difficulty

Each grid must has a height of n colour where n is larger than 2 and a width of n+1. This means that the easiest level consists of a grid of 3x4 as shown above. That makes a total of 6 colour couples.

The second level consists of a grid of 4x5 having a total of 10 colour couples, while the third level, having a grid of 5x6 contains 15 colour couples. As the number of couples increases, the level becomes much more challenging and hard to follow.

# Score

The score is time based, meaning the faster a level is finished, the higher the score will be.

It is calculated by (600 seconds – total seconds) * level.

# Ultimate goal

The game is casual play meaning that levels can be played over and over again with no end game.

A player starts the game at level 1 and can only play 3x4 grids. Once a grid is finished, the player progresses to level 2 and gains access to 4x5 grids. Once a 4x5 grid is completed, the player progresses to level 3 and unlocks 5x6 grids. Once level 3 grids are unlocked, the player can play any difficulty that he wants for as many times as wished.

# How to play

The puzzle is immersive meaning that it is in first person 3D with a 2D mini-map to see all the grid.

Each tower (single colour in the grid) has either a portal in the middle or four portals on the sides. The middle portal teleports to the other matching tower, while the side portals teleports to a neighbour tower. Each portal is coloured to match its destination.