🫑 Sorts (3D)

Sort items in this low-poly Unity 3D game inspired by games like A Little To The Left. ⋆˙⟡ ⋆🥬.˚ ⊹₊⟡ 🍅⋆

This game currently has: three levels, a start screen, an end screen, and a pause/quit menu as well. There is UI SFX and game music implemented.
Made in Unity Game Engine, v.2022.3.52f1! :]

📋 Table of Contents

• 🫑 Sorts (3D)
  • 📋 Table of Contents
  • ❣️ Features
  • 🕹️ Controls
  • 🍅 Demo (Play for Yourself!)
  • 📦 Screenshots
  • 🛣️ Roadmap
  • 🔧 Technical Details
    • 🔖 Requirements
    • 🚀 Local development setup & usage
    • 🏗️ File Architecture
  • 📄 License
    • 👤 Author
  • 🙇 Acknowledgements

❣️ Features

🕹️ Low Effort Gameplay
Intuitive drag-and-drop controls - just drag and organize!
Cozy, low-poly art style, perfect for unwinding
Soothing background music throughout the game

📦 Three Unique Levels
Level 1: Sort colorful stationery into their designated spots
Level 2: Organize fresh fruits & veggies into a wooden crate
Level 3: Return a chess piece to its proper position

🎯 Satisfying Mechanics
Smooth item snapping when you sort objects correctly
Automatic level progression when puzzles are solved
Visual hints to guide your sorting strategy

🎵 Polished Experience
Theme music fades in/out with pause menu
Satisfying UI sound effects for menus and interactions
Pause anytime with ESC key

🆓 FREE to Play
Available on itch.io
Quick, mini puzzle sessions
No ads or micro-transactions
Perfect for fans of A Little to the Left, Unpacking, and cozy puzzle games!

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🕹️ Controls

Drag items into their corresponding spots/containers. Levels may contain hints on where to place items.

ESC → Quit menu
Mouse Left Click → Pick up, drop item
Mouse Right Click → Rotate item

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🍅 Demo (Play for Yourself!)

PLAY Sorts for free on itch.io!

Please leave it a rating and/or comment while you're there! It would mean the world to me! 🌎❣️

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📦 Screenshots

Sorts icon!

Level 1– Stationery, with hints

Level 2– Fruits & Vegetales

Level 3– Chess (only one object to organize at the moment)

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🛣️ Roadmap

• (2/3) Add a game mechanic to detect when all items are organized & move to next level (Dec. 18, 2025)
  • Level 1: place stationery in specific slots (Aug. 3, 2025)
  • Level 2: place fruits & veggies in box (Dec. 18, 2025)
  • Level 3: place chess pieces in specific slots
• Create my own UI art
• Create my own models
• Add animations to levels
  • Solution (and progress bar, perhaps?)
  • entering level
  • leaving level
• Save mechanic
• Pause menu bug– items picked up before escing will follow cursor around, making it harder to find cursor; item should drop.
• Storyline/objective/plot
• SFX (pick up and drop sounds)
  • Start menu UI (Aug. 3, 2025)
  • Pause menu UI (Aug. 3, 2025)
  • Level 1
    • drag and drop (Aug. 3, 2025)
    • All solutions met
  • Level 2 drag and drop
    • drag and drop (Dec. 18, 2025)
    • All solutions met
  • Level 3 drag and drop
    • drag and drop (Dec. 18, 2025)
    • All solutions met
• Hidden solutions
  • Level 1: sort by size
  • Level 2: sort into containers by fruit/veggie type
  • Level 3: cross a piece over to "win" the game

• Drag and drop item mechanic; applied only to items I want moved
• Levels 1-3 designed/developed
• Level 1 solution detection & 1 solution implemented: sort stationery by color.
• Pause/Quit menu w/ esc; music fades in/out with pause open/closed.

(recently added!) (Aug. 3, 2025)

• Level 1 item snapping mechanic
• Game mechanic that detects when all items are organized & allow player to move to next level
  • Level 1: place stationery in specific spots
• Start-menu UI (very bare)
• Pause-menu UI (very bare)
• SFX for UI for Start & Pause/Quit menu– @Cyrex Studios
• Theme music for entire game– @1144ghost

(newly added!) (Dec. 18, 2025)

• Finished implementing game mechanic that detects when all items are organized & move to next level
  • Level 2: place fruits & veggies in box
  • Started Level 3: place a pawn chess piece in its specific pawn spot on the board
  • ItemSlot.cs & Grabber.cs work on any level the scripts are called on, instead of solely Level 1.–– Hard-coded level names, solution numbers, and levels 1-3 in, so changes will need to be made if level names are changed, levels are added/subtracted, or less/more solutions arise.
• Level 2 item snapping mechanic
• Level 3 item snapping mechanic
• Level 2 solution detection & 1 solution implemented: place all fruits and veggies into wooden crate.
• Level 3 solution detection & 1 solution implemented: move pawn back to its designated starting position.

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🔧 Technical Details

🔖 Requirements

Playing Sorts

• Play free on itch.io
  or
  
• Download Unity MacOS .app in Project Directory
• Download Unity Windows .exe in Project Directory

Opening Sorts in the Game Engine

• Sytem requirements for Unity 2022.3.*
• Unity 2022.3.52f1 Install

🚀 Local development setup & usage

Simply open the project from Unity Hub with version 2022.3.52f1 or higher (same version highly recommended).

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🏗️ File Architecture

A few files and directory references you might(?) find useful.

Sorts/
├── Assets/
│   ├── Scenes/                     # Game levels
│   │   ├── Level1.unity            # Stationery sorting level
│   │   ├── Level2.unity            # Fruits & vegetables level
│   │   └── Level3.unity            # Chess pieces level
│   ├── Scripts/                    # C# game logic
│   │   ├── DragAndDrop.cs          # Item dragging mechanics
│   │   ├── GameManager.cs          # Level completion detection; Pause/Quit menu logic
│   │   ├── Grabber.cs              # Apply to game objects you want to be grabbable
│   │   └── ItemSlot.cs             # Apply to game objects you want to be item slots
│   ├── Models/                     # 3D models and prefabs
│   │   ├── Stationery/             # Office supplies assets for level 1
│   │   ├── BellPeppersCapsicums/   # Bell peppers for level 2
│   │   ├── LowPolyFarmLite/        # Vegetables, props for level 2
│   │   └── Chess/                  # Chess pieces for level 3
├── README_images/                  # Sorts icon, gifs, and gameplay screenshots
├── Research                        # Research documents
│   └── Research.md                 # Project Proposal, Post-Mortem, and User Feedback
├── Builds/                         # Sorts executables for MacOS, Windows, and WebGL

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📄 License

Updated December 17, 2025.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License.

👤 Author

Jenny Spicer / Jennifer Spicer

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🙇 Acknowledgements

• Ethereal Grace – 5 Bell Peppers - Capsicum - Low Poly Realistic Vegetable
• Broken Vector - Low Poly Chess Pack
• JustCreate - Low Poly Farm Pack Lite
• Sten Ulfsson - Office Supplies Low Poly
• Cyrex Studios - Universal UI/Menu Soundpack
• 1144ghost - cozy winter music
• AIA – Unity Drag & Drop Tutorial

Heavily inspired by the following cozy games:

• A Little to the Left (video ref.)
  
• Birth (video ref.)
  
• Unpacking (video ref.)

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Caution

This is a learning project demonstrating Unity 3D fundamentals. It is not production-ready and lacks save features.