I really liked it. I believe there were some puzzles like this in either The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages or Oracle of Seasons. In those, however, you could stop and re-evaluate your surroundings. I think what is making it hard is the fact that it is hard to understand when the player is "of...

Gluttony The object is to eat as many good pieces of food as you can before the timer expires. Here are the game rules: Good food (green) Worth 10 points; Increases your countdown clock by one second; Increases your radius by 1. Bad food (red) Subtracts 5 points; Decreases your countdown clock by 0...

Sweet clone. I like the visual drop shadow as well. One thing I'd suggest it some audio indication that you've made a tetris.

You'll have to do a lot more learning, but it looks like someone has already written in a LOVE/Lua importer for Tiled, a 2D grid based tilemapping program: http://love2d.org/wiki/TiledMapLoader http://www.mapeditor.org/ I've used Tiled in the past for XNA stuff. Not exactly what you asked for, but I...

Hopefully I understand your problem, because here is a purposed solution: Suppose these are your objects: circle = { x = --x coordinate of center, y = --y coordinate of center, r = -- radius of circle } rect = { x = -- top left vertex x coord y = -- top left vertex y coord w = -- width h = -- height...