Robot Ghost Sokoban

Created for Thinky Puzzle Game Jam 6. As a jam game, it's pretty unpolished, but I think it's basically playable.

You control the ghost in the bottom half of the screen. Move the ghost onto the arrow buttons to control the robot in the upper half of the screen.

I assure you that it is possible to reach an actual ending! But you might need to get a little creative with your objective.

The puzzle used in the upper half of most boards is the famous first level of Microban I by David W. Skinner, playable here.  If you aren't already familiar with that level, you probably will not enjoy this game (and you should probably consider playing at least a few levels of Microban I, because they are beautiful).

Acknowledgements are also due to nuskey8's LOOPROOM, also submitted to this jam, from which I might have slightly borrowed the idea of using a toroidal board on some of the later levels, and to NoFace from the Thinky Puzzle Games Discord server, who gave helpful feedback on an early build of this game. Some mechanical inspiration for part of the game may also have been subconsciously taken from Softlocked by stev, which was also submitted to this jam.

Puzzlescript Plus source for this game is available here.

Fun Fact: The original kernel of inspiration for this game was actually the robots that did cleanup work at Three Mile Island. If I'd gone further in that direction then probably the game that resulted would have been a lot less cynical than this ended up being. But pretty quickly I wanted the player character to be transparent so that the arrow buttons would be visible behind them, which meant I decided they should be a ghost, and the rest of the game kind of fell out of that.