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I Wanna Lockpick

A strange puzzle game about matching colored keys and doors. · By LAWatson

idea: negative doors

A topic by Pool_E created Jul 04, 2024 Views: 311 Replies: 5
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These doors would be like normal, but the outside outline would be te negative, but the lock(s) would be positive, or the pther way around. This would keep the door requirement the same, but the cost the negative of what it would be, for example, a negative orange door with a 1 orange lock would need 1 orange to be opened, but would spend -1 keys (and thus give 1 key).

pretty sure you could do this with base game mechanics

how, realy, would you make a door that reqires 2 orange keys but give 2 orange keys whe opened?

You will need at least 2 doors to do it. A door with 2 orange spend color and a buffer color that stores -2 keys from the 2 orange keys, then use that buffer color to give 2 orange keys.

but negative doors/locks could do it in 1 door, stopping you from opening only 1, also it doesn't need another color, and you can use it with combo doors

That matches my very first idea in https://itch.io/t/3629769/lots-of-ideas lol