Kye (video Game)

Kye (video Game)

Kye is a real time puzzle game. Some puzzle games, like Sokoban, work around a very simple idea, an extremely limited set of objects and rules - Kye does not follow this approach, because it contains a variety of different object types and these interact in a variety of ways. It takes ideas from puzzle games like Sokoban and Boulder Dash, but the inclusion of active objects gives it a real-time component, and it can also produce arcade-game levels like those found in Pac-Man. Anyone can create new levels for the game.

Kye was created by Colin Garbutt of Towednack and first released in 1992. Starting with version 2.0, the game became charity shareware – registration required a donation to Save the Children, and the donor received the latest version and 20 additional levels in return. As time passed, additional levels, roughly 496 of them from various developers and designers, would be added to the registered package, but can be opened in the unregistered version, a rarity in shareware titles.

The Kye is also the object controlled by the player in the game, from which the game takes its name. This was the name of Garbutt's dog, according to the help file.