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.

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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.

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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.

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Indie DB

MARCH 10, 2023

Check out our DBolical review of this modder-made strategy/puzzle indie!

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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GameDev.Net

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Hi there, I'm pretty new here, but I've been working on my own indie game project for the last 7 months and wanted to share my Beta and hopefully get some feedback! It's called Cache Grabbers, and I'd really appreciate it if you all would check it out and let me know what you think.

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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.

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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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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.

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GameDev.Net

JANUARY 31, 2023

OUT NOW ON STEAM [link] Underliner is a stylish puzzle adventure game in an open world with a great number of puzzles and secrets. In puzzles, each idea combines with other ideas, challenging players to think in intellectual and novel ways.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Grumpy Gamer

AUGUST 10, 2014

In part 1 of 1 in my series of articles on games design, let's delve into one of the (if not THE) most useful tool for designing adventure games: The Puzzle Dependency Chart. Gary and I didn't have Puzzle Dependency Charts for Maniac Mansion, and in a lot of ways it really shows. For this article, I'm going to go with Chart.

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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.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Max Inferno released A Little to the Left late last year, and artist, designer and company co-founder Annie Macmillan told Vince Pavey all about their work on the cosy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organise household items

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Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Ten Great Adventure-Game Puzzles. P.S. I'm not linking this just because I'm mentioned three times.

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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

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GameDev.Net

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Shape: Mind of Thinker has a minimalist style inside the puzzle platformer game "Sometimes I overthink a lot and it makes me stuck inside my mind" A Minimalist Style But Inside A Complex-minded With connecting word mechanism, you can make a rule for your rooms and solve the problem. Solve the puzzle and go to the door to the next room.

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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.

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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!

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Indie DB

MARCH 29, 2023

This puzzling adventure indie announces a major reward win

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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.

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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.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 20, 2023

Check out our DBolical review of this modder-made survival horror indie!

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iHobo

MARCH 29, 2023

The self-adjusting speed of early puzzle games like mega-hit Tetris worked extremely well to ensure wide appeal. A huge range of brilliant puzzle game designs in the 90s and 2000s delivered thrill-seeking play that was fundamentally not about winning. The player of an endless mode never wins: defeat is inevitable.

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GameDev.Net

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Shape: Mind of Thinker has a minimalist style inside the puzzle platformer game "Sometimes I overthink a lot and it makes me stuck inside my mind" A Minimalist Style But Inside A Complex-minded With connecting word mechanism, you can make a rule for your rooms and solve the problem. Solve the puzzle and go to the door to the next room.

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GameDev.Net

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Have you considered making the board a puzzle piece that you could let the players setup ahead of game start? How do you keep track of damage/health of zombies, do they all have one HP? How do you calculate a ranged weapon effectiveness over distance? Keep it up =)

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When designing a puzzle, a designer must think of the process by which the player interacts with them. Place and advertise the clues to the puzzle goal within the environment. This can be subtle or it can be obvious, depending on whether the puzzle is optional or part of the critical path.

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iHobo

MARCH 8, 2023

The problem-focussed player who gets beaten is going to look at it as a puzzle to solve. The ubiquity of puzzle-solving play in videogames isn't an accident. The challenge-focussed player who gets beaten is going to keep trying to win through their own skills and prowess. Not interested.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 9, 2023

Cult will be responsible for publishing Galacticare – the sci-fi hospital management game by War for the Overworld dev Brightrock Games – as well as the next title from Witch Beam, the studio behind the multi-BAFTA winning puzzle game Unpacking. Read more

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