TILEZ

TILEZ is a 2D creative logic sandbox where every tile is a tiny programmable machine. Build circuits, factories, robots, board games, puzzles, and entire interactive worlds — all with visual logic, no coding required.

Play solo or collaborate with friends in seamless multiplayer.

Share your creations, explore others’, and learn by taking things apart.

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One Set of Rules. Endless Possibilities.

The same tile that lights a lamp can power a robot, run a factory, store memory, or become part of a fully interactive game. Master one tile and you’ll understand them all. Every creation in TILEZ is built from the same deeply interconnected system.

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Build Anything

• Automated factories, conveyor systems, and sorting machines

• Board games with dice, cards, turns, and multiplayer rules

• Video games, rhythm games, adventure maps, and puzzle experiences

• Moving robots, combat systems, and emergent behaviors

• Animated pixel art, music synthesizers, and wild Rube Goldberg machines

• Turing-complete circuits for advanced creators

Pushers, Pullers, and Grabbers let whole machines move, rotate, and function as a single connected creation.

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Learn as You Build — LEGO-Style Interactive Guidebooks

TILEZ includes step-by-step, in-world guidebooks that appear directly on your grid. Follow along as you build all kinds of contraptions, complete each step, then take the machine apart, modify it, or use it as a base for your own wild ideas. Perfect for beginners, educators, and curious creators.  It's easy to CREATE YOUR OWN TUTORIALS to share.

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Play Together

Invite friends into shared worlds. Build side-by-side, combine your creations, design multiplayer board games, race to complete objectives, or battle with custom robots.  Limited only by the imagination.

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Smart Tiles that Talk, See, Think and React

Powerful event-driven signals let tiles communicate wirelessly, react to conditions, spawn new tiles, and modify the world around them. Complex systems stay understandable thanks to visual signals, inspectable logic, and real-time feedback.

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Key Features

• Infinite grid sandbox with seamless online multiplayer

• Interactive Guidebooks & step-by-step build tutorials

• Visual logic, automation, memory, and wireless systems

• Advanced conditional event system

• Module system for reusable creations

• Custom texture and sound import

• Save/Load, Undo/Redo, and fully remappable controls

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Currently in Playtest

TILEZ is in active development. Your feedback directly shapes the game. If something feels confusing, broken, or missing — tell me.

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Long-Term Vision

The goal isn’t to dictate what you build.

The goal is to give you a system so flexible that you’ll discover uses the developer never imagined.

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About the Developer

For the last ten years, home has been the back of my vehicle — living a minimalistic van life and chasing the nicer weather.

I’ve played games my whole life: video games, board games, and the deep strategic ones most people bounce off of. As a homeschooling father of two, Redstone became a staple in our curriculum. There’s no better way to teach a circuit than letting someone build one, break it, and try again.

TILEZ started as an attempt to make that teaching tool even better - and give my children some refresher lessons. I kept adding features so the lessons could go further — more logic, more ways to see cause and effect — and eventually my little tiles grew into something new. Every system in it was designed, broken, and rebuilt by one person with a lot of stubbornness and nowhere in particular to be.

At its core, I think it's one of the best tools I know for teaching logic and circuits. It just also happens to be a way to create and play  video games, board games, puzzles, robots, factories, and whatever else people dream up.

They say geeks build cool things in garages. I built mine on four wheels.

Games gave me a lot over the years.

TILEZ is my way of giving something back — a better way to learn, create, and play together.

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