Mental staircases and paradoxical suitcases: Crafting the world-hopping puzzles of Cocoon
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
"I think I've got to a point where I evaluate puzzles on more parameters than just 'is this challenging?'" '"
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Game Developer
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
"I think I've got to a point where I evaluate puzzles on more parameters than just 'is this challenging?'" '"
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
The makers of this 2D-3D puzzle platformer created a retro visual style with a little help from their own personal memory banks.
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Game Developer
JANUARY 18, 2023
Patrick’s Parabox is both an evolution of the block-pushing puzzle game, and something new and unique to itself.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Shutter has players solving puzzles using a camera that can alter the shape and size of objects through messing with their perspective.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
inTIErrupted is a cooperative escape game about untangling an incredibly long, puzzle-filled tie without getting caught in such a compromising position.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
The Forest Quartet gathers the three remaining members of a jazz quartet as they grieve for their lead singer, facing their emotions through music and puzzles.
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
From the beginning this project wasn’t just about the final product. I wanted to learn better practices for scalable and maintainable code.
Game Wisdom
OCTOBER 29, 2023
Why Are Puzzle Games Important? Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com When you think of gaming, it’s not perhaps puzzle games that first come to mind for most people; you might think of things like driving games, first-person shooters, or maybe massively multiplayer online games.
GamesIndustry.biz
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
A new Sensor Tower report says mobile puzzle games have generated $42 billion since the company began tracking data in 2013. Real-time puzzles such as Tetris and Traffic Jam Fever saw significant growth between January 2022 and March 2023, with a 103% increase in downloads and a 64% rise in revenue.
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Remnant II creative director David Adams discusses the path to making games as replayable as possible through procedural generation.
PreMortem.Games
JUNE 9, 2023
Over 100,000 students across Alberta puzzled their way to freedom and participated in the educational programs that taught them how to make their own escape rooms. By applying everything they had learned by designing puzzles for escape rooms, Reynolds and Harvey managed to design an ambitious 12-episode first season. Step 1: Wonder.
Game Developer
APRIL 21, 2023
In this free GDC Vault talk, creative director Wren Brier talks about the design pillars behind Unpacking's creation
Deconstructor of Fun
AUGUST 15, 2023
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.
Grumpy Gamer
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
There are some fun puzzles in here but they all were cut for a reason, mostly pacing but sometimes because it wasn't as interesting as we thought. ** SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME YET. Game design isn't a destination, it's a journey and this was one of the stops along the way.
Sirlin
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. The fourth of these bank decks is Puzzle Pets. The creatures are the star of the show in Puzzle Pets. Most decks have a few creatures, but Puzzle Pets puts the emphasis on creatures.
Unity Blog
MARCH 3, 2023
Mairi Nolan, lead game designer at Eleven Puzzles, shares the importance of verbal interaction and how the team built communication into the studio’s latest release Unsolved Case.
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 11, 2023
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.”
Code with Mike
MARCH 8, 2023
But, I’m glad I stuck with it as it’s needed to solve door puzzles in Hogwarts Legacy. The Arithmancy puzzle doors are easily solved with some simple counting and very […] The post How To Solve Door Puzzles In Hogwarts Legacy appeared first on CodeWithMike. Don’t worry though, it’s super simple math.
Game Wisdom
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The Most Puzzling Games of 2022 Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com. The puzzle genre continues to be a favorite with a wide variety of games to check out for 2022.… … The post The Most Puzzling Games of 2022 appeared first on Game Wisdom.
Sirlin
JANUARY 8, 2022
I wrote an article about the design of Puzzle Strike 2, which you can find here. I’ll post several more articles about the game’s design, which will all appear on this handy index page that’s just for Puzzle Strike 2. Puzzle Strike 2’s Kickstarter page is here.
Game Developer
MARCH 10, 2023
Mind Diver buries a mystery in someone's memories, tasking you with diving into someone's past experiences to get a lead on a missing person.
Game Industry News
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
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. For those who like: Anime with Drama, Watching Characters Solve Puzzles, and Stereotypes.
Grumpy Gamer
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Chatting with a game designer friend the other day and we were bemoaning the state of adventure game puzzles and it got us talking. So I was wondering what is your favorite puzzle in Thimbleweed Park, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island or any other classic point-and-click game? What makes a puzzle good? What makes a puzzle hard?
Deconstructor of Fun
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
The mobile hit Empires and Puzzles (E&P) by Small Giant Games (acquired by Zynga) has made over $600M in net-revenues while racking up around 60 million installs. While there have been numerous clones and follow up titles trying to get a piece of the ever growing puzzle RPG pie, none of them has had any meaningful success.
Sirlin
JANUARY 23, 2022
Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. Puzzle Strike 2 is generally a system that creates the opportunity of miracle turns and comebacks. The second of these bank decks is Dinosize. Dinosize is home to big effects. Ridiculously big effects.
Sirlin
JANUARY 26, 2022
Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. Surviving just one more turn than usual in Puzzle Strike 2 is a big deal and can put you in a position to win soon after. Deep crashes are in short supply in Puzzle Strike 2. Bal-Bas-Beta, Clockwork Guardian.
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 6, 2023
“I thought that trying to piece together what happened in the past felt like a puzzle – a puzzle you could turn into a super emotionally powerful video game”, he says. ” imperfect photogrammetry One of the aspects Breum is most proud of in Mind Diver is how well the puzzles and the story complement each other.
Game Developer
JUNE 6, 2023
Encouragement, routine, and reinforcement are crucial to retraining neural pathways.
Game Developer
APRIL 25, 2023
The studio was quietly formed in 2022 by a group of former King, Seriously, and Next Games developers.
Sirlin
JANUARY 18, 2022
Puzzle Strike 2’s base set comes with 10 characters to choose from. The punchline though is that in Puzzle Strike 2, you often live your life right at that edge and beyond. Each character has three cards and you start with those in your deck. To give you a taste of these characters, here’s just one card from each of them.
Indie DB
MARCH 10, 2023
Check out our DBolical review of this modder-made strategy/puzzle indie!
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Slider takes players to a world within a 8-puzzle slide puzzle. By reorienting the pieces of the world, players will help people reconnect, open new paths forward, and figure out where your cat went.
Sirlin
JANUARY 13, 2022
Puzzle Strike 2’s base set includes 10 characters and two different community banks decks. There are several fundamental things you do in Puzzle Strike 2, such as blocking, crashing, swapping, drawing cards, and spending actions. Each bank deck changes the feel of the game. In other words, it emphasizes all the fundamentals.
Sirlin
JANUARY 29, 2022
Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. The third of these bank decks is Steam Crank. Steam Crank introduces a new mechanic: the chain combo. Many cards have a strip at the bottom with a “chain” ability.
Sirlin
JANUARY 20, 2022
Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. The first of these bank decks is Haunted House. Discarding cards is generally bad to do, but Haunted House turns that on its head.
Sirlin
JANUARY 15, 2022
The second community bank deck in Puzzle Strike 2 is Birthday Bash (the first is Grand Melee). Presents The main mechanic of this deck is opening birthday presents. It gets pretty crazy, but let’s start with the basics.
Game Developer
AUGUST 16, 2023
Launching on PlayStation Plus' Extra and Premium tiers likely helped Tha LTD and Enhance's puzzle platformer Humanity hit the 1 million mark in a few months.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 10, 2021
Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. Thankfully, your faithful crew at DoF are here to try and help you make sense of it, well, at least the very specific part of it related to puzzle games. Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. It made $5.1
Deconstructor of Fun
MAY 20, 2020
A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. Playing levels awards stars , which are used to earn coins in the Puzzle Pass. Looking at the market, there have been plenty of combinations of Puzzle Core + Invest & Express hybrid games attempted. The Twist: The Puzzle Pass.
Raph Koster
SEPTEMBER 2, 2023
I thought it would be interesting to contrast this to Word Dad , a puzzle game made by my friend, master game designer John Cutter. A brief aside on puzzles All three of these are more correctly called puzzles, of course. This means that really, puzzles and games are terms that are matters of degree, not kind.
Sirlin
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Puzzle Strike is now available on iPad and iPhone ! Puzzle Strike is a deckbuilding puzzle game played amongst Fantasy Strike characters. It's inspired by puzzle games such as Puzzle Fighter. New Puzzle Challenge mode : learn advanced character tactics and think outside the bag!
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 14, 2020
Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year.
Sirlin
DECEMBER 21, 2015
Puzzle Strike is now available on Steam! Puzzle Strike is a deckbuilding puzzle game played amongst Fantasy Strike characters. It's inspired by puzzle games such as Puzzle Fighter. In any case, make sure to adapt to your opponents because Puzzle Strike has a lot more interactivity than most other deckbuilders.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Skala allows players to change the size and shape of the world and everything in it, asking them to solve puzzles by stretching and growing things.
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