Tilt Is A New Groundbreaking Game that Transforms the Way You Solve Puzzles
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The newest addition game from Mascot Bro Studio is TILT which is a physic gravity type game similar to portal series.
COCOON creator Jeppe Carlsen “I never compromise on playability”
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 Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid. years of development.
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The art of puzzle design • Escape Mail’s historical fiction in interactive storytelling
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.
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For Schell Games, VR is the technology of the present (possibly the future, too)
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 17, 2024
No, we never do that," he quickly says, "Because that's how you sink a studio. Looking at Schell Games' recent output, it's pretty easy to spot a common thread. You say, 'We're about this one thing' and then the world moves on. Then you sink, right? Read more
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Chrome Valley Customs - Can a Male Audience and a Puzzle Game Be a Match?
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.
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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Can Boost Engagement In The Casual Puzzle Genre With Competitive 1v1 Events
Game Refinery
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features. Only 15% of casual puzzle games in the US top grossing 200 have implemented it, despite it proving reasonably effective at boosting performance in several level-based puzzle games.
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Former EA devs' Simply Sweet Games aims to "raise the bar for the entire industry"
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 7, 2024
Industry veterans Tina Merry and Carina Kom have formed a new studio, Simply Sweet Games. Headquartered in British Columbia, Canada, Simply Sweet Games is a fully remote studio that is currently developing its inaugural mobile title – the roguelike word puzzle Criss Cross Castles.
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Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game
Radiator Blog
APRIL 11, 2024
Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. Gone Home anchors its story focus with voice acting, narration, simpler puzzles, and wry realism. The Witness fully commits to hundreds of puzzles at the scope of an open world game.
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Midnight Girl by indie studio Italic is a cool cat – Cat burglar that is
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Midnight Girl , from indie studio Italic , oozes French cool. Our last game was a kids puzzle game, our current game is a point-and-click adventure and our next game might be something completely different.” The post Midnight Girl by indie studio Italic is a cool cat – Cat burglar that is appeared first on PreMortem Games.
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2021 Predictions #1 Puzzle Games Becomes the Top Grossing Genre on Mobile
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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New indie label Cult Games: "Real breakouts don't come from the boardroom"
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 9, 2023
Founded by Helen Burnill, who spent more than a decade in various director positions at Fall Guys developer Mediatonic, the company will initially focus on assisting established studios bringing their next games to market and helping them to improve the chances of each new release living up to previous successes. Read more
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Navigating the path toward success: Xsolla Funding Club's role in FixFox's launch
GamesIndustry.biz
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Like many indie studios, Rendlike from the Czech Republic was born from a passion for video games and the craft of creating them. Its founder, Jaroslav Meloun, started his career in 2011, when he joined Silicon Jelly, creating the cute puzzle platformer Mimpi.
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Backfirewall by Naraven Games reveals the secret life of apps in our phones
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The game is the debut of Swiss indie game studio Naraven Games. Compelling puzzles And so the team built the game around the story. The gameplay mechanics and puzzles all came from the question ‘what fun things could we mess with inside a phone’. Or ‘we need something that helps us when we’re stuck in puzzles, but what?
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Game Art Studio: The Future of Game Development?
iXie gaming
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
This is why game art studios have emerged over the past decade. Instead of working on the next big blockbuster title alone, game art studios help companies create their titles with minimal financial investment. This article will explain about Game Art Studios and what it means for the future of gaming! What is a Game Art Studio?
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Splash Damage acquires Battalion 1944 dev Bulkhead
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Derby-based Bulkhead is best known as the team behind World War 2 shooter Battalion 1944 and first-person puzzle game The Turing Test. The two studios are collaborating on the online action multiplayer game, which is heading to PC and console starting with a closed beta in 2023.
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Attracting investors and publishers with the right kind of game demos
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Your demo should be an excellent example of what you intend your game to be, should showcase your team’s developmental ability, and show that your studio can hand in deliverables on time and budget. It showcases the game’s primary mechanics, which encompass a unique camera/perspective system, puzzle-solving, and shooting.
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Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio
Deconstructor of Fun
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Supercell announced over a year ago that they will be opening a studio in North America. Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. In Today’s Email ? Subscribe here!
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Artist Cassie Simpson on navigating Life, three University Majors and Work
PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 17, 2024
My first encounter with Cassie Simpson was during the inaugural Xbox Game Studios Game Camp Africa in 2023. In December 2023, she exhibited some of Chroma Pixel Games’ studio work at Africa Games Week and attended Playtopia Festival. ” She represented the studio on a panel at the Xbox Game Studios Game Camp in 2023.
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Co-development / hire - HutuStudio
Cocos
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
We are HutuStudio, a HK based studio, with people in China and UK/London. 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.
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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres” Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. I’m not good with story telling or puzzle design, so combining some expertise would be nice.” It’s something different.
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Co-development / hire - HutuStudio
Cocos
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
We are HutuStudio, a HK based studio, with people in China and UK/London. 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.
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Looking for Games
Cocos
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
We are a HK based studio, with people in China and UK/London. hutustudio is our name Again, we are only interested in casual-puzzle genre. hutustudio is our name Again, we are only interested in casual-puzzle genre. If you are interested in co-development or only straight up commission us to do games in Cocos let us know.
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Co-development / hire - HutuStudio
Cocos
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
We are HutuStudio, a HK based studio, with people in China and UK/London. 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.
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Solo dev Diego Ras of Raccoo Venture “Everything starts with paper and pencil”
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
That was when in 2013 I joined as a partner in a studio that produced small advergames and games for exhibitions among other services. However, the studio still focused on the advertising area and my interests were increasingly focused on the games. There it will go through another polishing stage until reaching an acceptable product.
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The gorgeous visuals of Bionic Bay that Juhana Myllys calls Painterly Pixel Art
PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 24, 2024
Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. It allows players to instantly swap places with any physics based object which allows for some clever puzzling through the relentless levels. “We
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Starting a New Studio? Dream Team is All You Need!
Deconstructor of Fun
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
This blog post is brought to you by ironSource - a growth platform that turns amazing studios into amazing businesses. Starting a New Studio - Where to Start? I joined Voodoo in Berlin with the goal to open a new studio that would develop new types of games (i.e. Will you make another puzzle game?”. What games to make?
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2022 Predictions #1 The King is back, Merge overheats and Hypercasuals falter
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 24, 2022
What we believe separates our market analysis from other great ones you have read is that the predictions are written by professionals working in gaming studios around the World and strengthened by feedback from our nearly thousand people-strong community of game industry veterans. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios.
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Solo dev Jonathan Barbosa Dijkstra “Learning new skills is a great motivator”
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
I played around with a few ideas and one of them was a simple cube rolling puzzle game. So I made a shift in puzzle design to negate that. But these people aren’t necessarily the people that play challenging puzzle games. I figured that’s something that’s probably relatively easy to make. Same goes for the other way around.
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Polte Games sets Sixth Extinction free “Does your game exist if no one is playing it?”
PreMortem.Games
JULY 5, 2023
I had the idea of packaging information on the mass extinction crisis in a game where you solve puzzles and problems. Professional Voice Actor He spent the next two years working on the narrative-driven puzzle game. Salo wanted to take action, but how? “I I like to think of games as a means of communication”, he says. “I
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David Olamide’s joyous journey that led to an internship in his own company
PreMortem.Games
AUGUST 28, 2023
As co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Nigerian-based studio Dimension 11 , he provided leadership. He recently successfully released two balls and is currently solely focusing on Dimension 11 studios. I can’t forget because that year was very important not just for myself but also for Dimension 11 as a studio.
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On the topic of cutscenes, do you think we will get to the point where fully pre-rendered cutscenes will be phased out entirely? Are there any other advantages to having a cutscene be pre-rendered rather than in engine besides the cutscene being “prettier” than the base graphics?
Ask a Game Dev
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Flight Simulator), rhythm games, puzzle games, and so on. It's much easier to outsource to a studio like Blur to do it for you than build engine support for it without adding a very expensive story mode to the game. Certain genres of games (e.g.
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A Void Hope by Elden Pixels lacks violence and destruction “We’re proud of that”
PreMortem.Games
AUGUST 21, 2023
What began as a casual endeavor gradually evolved into a fully-fledged studio as the game’s success solidified their path. A Void Hope is an atmospheric puzzle platforming adventure set in a world teetering on the edge of collapse. The studio’s current focus rests on their latest project, A Void Hope.
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Solo developer Splenbit of Blocks Tracks Trains: “I like pursuing my own vision”
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 24, 2023
“I’m not good with story telling or puzzle design, so combining some expertise would be nice.” I’m not good with story telling or puzzle design, so combining some expertise would be nice.” And that’s what game development is to him at the moment, a hobby. Why did you become a solo developer? “I’m
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Mobile Games and Cross-Platform Development Projects
Starloop Studios
APRIL 18, 2023
Mobile games have evolved immensely from their roots are rudimentary puzzle games into viable and complex titles in their own right. With the mobile gaming industry’s continued growth year after year, mobile devices are becoming a platform of choice for numerous developers and publishers.
Royal Kingdom: Will it Usurp the Throne or Just be a Royal Relative?
Deconstructor of Fun
MAY 9, 2023
They launched a new game from a new studio entering the most competitive genre on mobile in the midst of Apple’s privacy apocalypse and has generated a billion dollars in revenue in two years. More than just stars Rewarding players with a currency that can be used in the metagame has become a common practice within the casual puzzle space.
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How to Turn Your Smartphone into a Gaming Console: The Best Gaming Apps
Big Games
JANUARY 31, 2024
Two Dots For those who appreciate puzzle games with a minimalist design, Two Dots is a true gem. Whether you’re into strategy, action, puzzles, or immersive storytelling, the best mobile gaming apps cater to diverse preferences.
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Pixel Federation goes all-in on AWS with help from Labyrinth Labs
AWS Games
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Mobile game developer and publisher Pixel Federation entertains more than 140M players worldwide with popular mobile games, including ‘ Diggy’s Adventure ,’ ‘ Trainstation 2 ,’ ‘ Puzzle Adventure ,’ and ‘ Port City.’ After running into challenges related to Apache Kafka and proxies, it enlisted cloud experts Labyrinth Labs for help.
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Usually I am working solo but I am going to work in a studio as game designer and I would like to make good design documents for the team. So what does a design document for a feature/puzzle/challenge etc look like? What information should I include? And thank you for sharing your answers to all these questions we ask!
Ask a Game Dev
MARCH 2, 2023
When I write a design document, I usually try to address the following: High level goal - What is this feature/system/puzzle/etc. You need to explain to the readers what you are building, why you are building it, and what you need in order to build it. supposed to do? What kind of experience do I want the player to have?
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Mystery investigation specialist EQ Studios “All our murder scenes are fictional”
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 8, 2023
It may have been born out of necessity, but after two successful murder mystery games EQ Studios can now be considered somewhat of a specialist in this particular genre. Still, Fery Tomi, Director of the Las Vegas based studio, wants to keep all options open for the next project. Some started from a puzzle standpoint.
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Godot games in the Steam Next Fest (October 2021)
Mircosoft Game Dev
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Dark Crypt by @DaisyGames3 is a puzzle game with a horror setting, well on topic for the spooky season! Manipulate gravity in Spinstar, @PixyDevs 's precision puzzle platformer with great pixel art and music! Hashi: Light by amiksemo is a minimalist and casual puzzle game with a ton of puzzles to solve. Dark Crypt.
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Module 2: Programming & Design Basics (Lessons 2)
Game Designing
AUGUST 31, 2023
01:08) It’s kind of like a logic puzzle through code, which is how I look at it. 04:40) And if you like logic puzzles and you like solving things like that, then coding is probably something that you’re really going to enjoy. And in this course we’re going to solve a lot of those logic puzzles.
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Brok the InvestiGator is the first Punch&Click game “Indies need to be innovative”
PreMortem.Games
APRIL 24, 2023
Puzzles are also adapted for blindness. Considering I use GameMaker Studio, a generic middleware to make my adventure games and not a specialized one like Adventure Game Studio, I’m free to do any kind of genres I want.” Brok the InvestiGator is a combination of a classic adventure with beat ‘m up and RPG.
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14 low-budget, highly successful story games
Game Analytics
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Horror in the darkness by Karmic Shift Studios. Horror in the Darkness is a text-based horror puzzle-esque game. Lovecraft fans, as Karmic Shift Studios have admitted that it’s been heavily inspired by his works. Choice is limited – this is much more of a mystery and puzzle-type game. Conflict: 10/10. Change: 9/10.
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