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Michael Blaker’s Anime Sunday: “Phi Brain: Puzzle of God”

Game Industry News

Hey all, I’m back with a relatively unknown series for this week’s Anime Sunday. It’s “Phi Brain: Puzzle of God!” ” Plot: The plot is rather basic: the main character gains a special MacGuffin and is forced to wear it after solving the puzzle attached to it.

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COCOON creator Jeppe Carlsen “I never compromise on playability”

PreMortem.Games

Cocoon, the intricate puzzle adventure by Jeppe Carlsen , known as the lead gameplay designer of Limbo and Inside, launched to raving reviews after 6.5 Communicate puzzle logic The creative process at Geometric Interactive follows a specific pattern. The art, sounds, and animation need to communicate the puzzle logic effectively.”

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Chrome Valley Customs - Can a Male Audience and a Puzzle Game Be a Match?

Deconstructor of Fun

And if the game you’re working on is a match-3 puzzle, there is a widely accepted assumption that your target audience primarily consists of women aged between 25 and 45. A very casual summary of the casual puzzle player demographics. Puzzle RPG is the first thing that comes to mind for puzzle games that target a male audience.

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How digital showcases helped make A Little To The Left an indie hit

GamesIndustry.biz

The cozy puzzle game about organising household items was created by Max Inferno, a development team consisting of Anne Macmillan (art and animation) and Lukas Steinman (design and programming). Back then it was more a vertical slice, with ten puzzles that were playable in the browser. Read more

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Artist Cassie Simpson on navigating Life, three University Majors and Work 

PreMortem.Games

I wanted to learn techniques that not everyone knows like coding and animations. “It was all about puzzle design, analytical thinking, and understanding player agency and mechanics”, she says. ” Animation, writing and marketing are the three majors Simpson decided to take.

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Catoise

Indie DB

This cutesy animal puzzle-platformer is making a release very soon

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Co-development / hire - HutuStudio

Cocos

We have strong art/animation foundation and started as casual/cartoon art outsourcer focusing on western market exclusively thanks to our founders experience in puzzle game. Again, we are only interested in casual-puzzle genre, similar to our portfolio. We are HutuStudio, a HK based studio, with people in China and UK/London.