Shapesetter Wishlist

An automation puzzle

Shape­setter

Program the machine. Set the shape.

Build a machine of arms that grab, paint, cut, weld and extrude, write each one its program, and turn raw shapes into finished works of modernist art.

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01 Trailer

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02 About

Shapesetter is a puzzle game about programming a machine. Each level hands you raw shapes at an input and asks for finished products at an output: a red quarter-circle, a striped square, a welded Mondriaan. You place arms on the board, give each one a single tool, and write it a tape of instructions. Press run and the machine loops, shape after shape, until the quota is filled.

Nothing happens out of sight. Every stroke of paint, every cut and every weld is a move you can watch an arm make, on a page of cream paper and flat printer's ink. Shapes are exact geometry, arcs, sectors and straight edges, sharp at any zoom.

A working machine is only the start. Every solution is measured in cycles and area, and the best ones are small, quick and strange.

  • Five tools, one per arm: grab, paint, cut, weld and extrude.
  • Every move is visible. No black boxes, no shapes that change out of sight.
  • Exact geometry: arcs, sectors and straight edges, crisp at any size.
  • Optimize each solution for cycles and area.
  • Levels after Mondriaan, Kandinsky and the traditional quilt.
  • Play with keyboard and mouse or a controller.

03 Screenshots

Composition: arms assemble a Mondriaan in the build screen, each one's program on the tape below Several Circles: compasses extrude and glaze Kandinsky's circles on a blueprint page Drunkard's Path: arms cut arcs from blue and yellow squares and swap them into a quilt Counter-Composition: compasses fan out van Doesburg's triangles and weld the red square Cut and weld: two boards cut on one stepped line, a piece swapped and welded

Coming to Steam

Wishlisting is the best way to support the game, and Steam tells you the day it comes out. The Discord is where to follow it being made.

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04 Press

Writing about Shapesetter, or playing it on stream? The press page has the facts, and the press kit has the logos, key art, screenshots and trailer in one download.

Press page Press kit (zip)