Star Jars Sort Deluxe

The making of

Star Jars began with one question: what if sorting colourful stars lit up a real sky? Here is what went into the box, and how.

  1. Rules first

    The first version had no drawings at all. It had the rules of a move, undo, and a solver that tries to solve the levels. A level the solver can’t get through doesn’t go in the game, and that still holds today.

  2. Art out of code

    We draw the stars, jars and seals in code. To change a detail we fix a few lines and make every drawing again. That’s why there are no ready-made art packs in the game.

  3. A shape for every colour

    The heart of this game is telling colours apart, but not everyone sees them the same. So every colour has a shape too: star, orb, heart, drop, diamond, crescent, triangle, planet, crystal.

  4. The puzzle met the sky

    This was the difference we wanted from the start: the stars you sort would be real. The home screen became a map, and every level came to light a star of a real constellation. We checked the distances and brightness on the cards against their sources.

    A star card in the game
  5. A new idea in every chapter

    We didn’t want you solving the same puzzle hundreds of times. Icy jars, labels, colour locks, clock stars, upside-down jars: new rules arrived along the way. Chapters end with a jar drawn for their constellation, and space chapters bring rules of their own.

    A chapter jar drawn for one constellation
  6. 13 languages

    The game began in Turkish, then came English, then 13 languages including Arabic. Not just the buttons: the star cards are in every language too.

    • Türkçe
    • English
    • Español
    • Português
    • Deutsch
    • Français
    • Italiano
    • Русский
    • Bahasa Indonesia
    • 日本語
    • 한국어
    • 简体中文
    • العربية
  7. Now

    The game is in test versions, getting ready for the stores. When we last updated this page it was at version 0.81. We’ll keep adding new chapters after release.

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