23 March 2012

"Aenigma" arranged by York Shen


Sokoban 2K, by Brian Kent

Years ago, Brian Kent (Washington DC., 1975), creator and designer of typographic fonts and games, he edited a nice collection of 50 levels, which was later known under the name "Aenigma" (May 2000). The collection was included in the game of the own Brian, Sokoban 2K (freeware, Windows 95, 98 o XP). It is an excellent game of design "psychedelic-underground", who still can be downloaded here:


The old website of Brian Kent "Aenigma Freeware Games & Fonts" (aenigma.freakware.net and www.aenigmafonts.com) you can see on the Internet Archive:

- Aenigma Freeware Games & Fonts
http://web.archive.org/web/20000229210600/http://aenigma.freakware.net/

- Aenigma Games & Fonts
http://web.archive.org/web/20011128122248/http://www.aenigmafonts.com/

Toward 2005, York Shen remodelled the entire collection "Aenigma", through the classic "system Y.S." which consists of adding the maximum number of boxes (and/or walls), without changing the structure. And as the structure of the puzzles of Brian Kent is very good, a superb collection has been obtained.

The collection is now much more attractive, with more difficult puzzles, but still affordable and fun. Download it here:



All levels are solvable. Enjoy!






ADDENDA - 30 March 2012

I realize now that 26 "Aenigma" puzzles are, in fact, simplifications of the puzzles #70 to #95 of "SokoCreation" by Howard Abed. The correspondence between the puzzles of "Aenigma" and "SokoCreation" is the next (the puzzles identified "original" are by Brian Kent): 


Aenigma    SokoCreation
  Level #             Level # 


1                     71
2                     72
3 (original)
4                     73
5
(original)
6                     74
7
(original)
8 (original)
9 (original)
10                   75
11
                   76
12
                   77
13
(original)
14                   78
15
(original)
16
                   79
17
(original)
18
(original)
19
                   80
20
                   81
21
(original)
22
                   82   
23
(original)
24
                   83
25
                   84
26
(original)
27
                   85
28
                   86
29
(original)
30
(original)
31
                   87
32
(original)
33
                   88
34
                   89
35
(original)
36
(original)
37
(original)
38
                   90
39
                   70
40
                   91
41
(original)
42
(original)
43
                   92
44
                   93
45
                   94
46
                   95
47
(original)
48
(original)
49
(original)
50
(original)

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