ChitraYatra
A calm puzzle of stained glass. Each window is a drawing from an Indian art tradition — a kolam, a jaali, a Madhubani fish pair — cut into hexagonal panes; turn, trade or carry them home until the lead lines meet and each closed shape lights. Choose windows state by state from a map of India, or shelf by shelf from the gallery. No timer, no score, no ads.
- Status
- In development
- Platform
- Android
- Package
- com.cybiqon.chitrayatra
Screens
Why it exists
The first version, Curvved, was a lattice of curves whose solved board only approximated its drawing. The owner said twice that the two did not match, so the mechanic was rebuilt until the solved board is the drawing itself: the panes are cut from the picture, and a finished window is the art, not a grid that resembles it. Everything else followed from treating each window as something worth keeping.
What it does
- A window for every state
- A map of India opens each state and union territory's own art: kolam from Tamil Nadu, pookalam from Kerala, mandana from Rajasthan, Phulkari from Punjab and more — 145 windows free.
- Four ways to play every window
- Turn panes in place, carry them home from a tray, trade two at a time, or turn whole flowers of seven. Each is taught once, by a hand, the first time.
- Difficulty that builds
- After the first window, five gentle ones open with only some panes out of place, so a new player is never dropped into a full scramble.
- Artisan: scenes of India
- A second game of painted scenes — Hampi at dusk, the tea hills of Munnar — cut into pieces that join as they meet. 54, 77 or 126 pieces.
- The board alone
- While you play, the controls step aside and the window is all there is; a tap brings them back, and a finished window brings everything back.
- Every window proven before it ships
- The game's own solver checks that each window has exactly one arrangement, so finishing it means you made the picture.
- No ads, no account
- Every window and scene is free. Optional purchases add Solve it for me, finishes and moving backgrounds, and packs of new windows — nothing free is ever moved behind one.