Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

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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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 31, 2009

About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank , I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh myself on the puzzles and dialog. No point in having to solve the same puzzle over and over. This gag was perfect, and in some ways better then making the player solve more puzzles.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 30, 2009

About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank , I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh myself on the puzzles and dialog. No point in having to solve the same puzzle over and over. This gag was perfect, and in some ways better then making the player solve more puzzles.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 7, 2023

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

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market – not just the hybrid-casual genre. In many respects, this change isn’t particularly surprising.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

Lancelot's Hangover: After beta testing, what do you do if you realize a series of puzzles doesn't work. Do you cut off the whole series of the puzzles (meaning wasting time/art/effort)? Do you try to make those puzzles easier by giving more explicit hints through dialogs and hotspot/object descriptions?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

They created interactive installations, motion graphics animations, experiential web pages, mobile apps, and lots of other creative projects. We seek to build long-form interactive storytelling that features the tactile interactions and transition heavy animation that we’re familiar with.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 17, 2018

Lancelot’s Hangover: After beta testing, what do you do if you realize a series of puzzles doesn’t work. Do you cut off the whole series of the puzzles (meaning wasting time/art/effort)? Do you try to make those puzzles easier by giving more explicit hints through dialogs and hotspot/object descriptions?

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 28, 2024

Explore a diorama world, play exciting arcade games, complete quirky quests, and meet cute animal friends. Best in Impact – Songs of Travel Developed by: Causa Creations (Austria) An animated graphic novel exploring the unique stories of five migrants seeking new beginnings in Europe. Download the game here.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

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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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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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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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Seattle, USA-based studio Polyarc showcased the highly immersive nature of VR earlier with their popular puzzle platformer Moss. The first one was a single player puzzle adventure-style game where you control a character, but you’re still in the world with them. The idea has actually been there since day one.”

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Game Refinery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Satisfying cleaning videos are a new trend on TikTok , console and PC games based around cleaning such as PowerWash Simulator have millions of players, and Animal Crossing – one of the most successful games on Nintendo Switch – involves a lot of cleaning and housework. No wonder these same elements are so popular in mobile games!

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There's a Portal-like moment where you escape the puzzle. You can totally miss important conversations and scenes because you're stuck in the stairwell climbing animation at exactly the wrong time. Your cute animal cult will follow whatever "Doctrines" you declare. Pro-tip: play with a gamepad.) But also veganism?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Once you rescue the animal by progressing on the saga map (spoiler, turns out to be some giant battle beast now) the animal ends up injured and permanently lays in need of help in the center of your home base until purchased. Of course, theres still an attractive woman- now with even less clothing.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

And so, the duo started exploring different ways to turn talking into a puzzle. For us, it’s imperative to demonstrate a new mode of working with AI that incorporates high quality original writing as a foundational puzzle-piece. Best of all it’s a tried and tested gameplay set-up, like in LA Noire.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

That’s how I worked on the level design and puzzles in Raccoo Venture, for example. Although the levels often underwent changes after testing in the 3D environment, when you start to feel the dynamics of the level and the puzzles. There it will go through another polishing stage until reaching an acceptable product.

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 27, 2023

Relaxation and Escapism Games like Animal Crossing , Minecraft , and Stardew Valley offer players a peaceful and low-stress environment to unwind in. Whether you prefer relaxing puzzles or immersive RPGs, there’s something here for everyone.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 6, 2024

It’s likely you’ve seen these playable ads on social media or mobile news feeds - they often resemble mini-games or animations that users can play around with or view. For example: The puzzle game Royal Match created a simple match-3 playable ad to showcase its core gameplay. The potential of playable ads extends far beyond gimmicks.

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Cocos

JUNE 18, 2024

is there a big difference in weight of final game when using Spine animations vs spritesheets when let’s say most characters in the game would be 50-100px size, and it has about 20 characters total? I’m only starting and trying to decide about animation formats to use). I want to ask a bit offtopic question, I hope it’s ok =).

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. Let’s take the popular example of Candy Crush Saga , a level-based puzzle game. They create animations for things that are neither objects nor characters.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

King, when they ruled the casual puzzle space, chose to expand the breadth of their casual portfolio: Bubble Witch Saga (bubble shooter), Pet Rescue Saga (collapse/blast), Diamond Digger Saga (digging/water flow mechanic), Blossom Blast Saga (linker), Pyramid Solitaire , etc. So why did this not go to plan?

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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.

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Real Programming

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Working through 16 coding puzzles, kids explore a haunted mansion, fend off zombies and solve mysteries along the way. When creating a virtual pet, kids use their creativity to choose and animate their animal. In today’s digital age, and with the help of Scratch, your child can learn to create their own versions!

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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. We are HutuStudio, a HK based studio, with people in China and UK/London.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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. We are HutuStudio, a HK based studio, with people in China and UK/London.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

I'm sure everyone is getting tired of playing Animal Crossing, and what better way to exercise your grey-matter than modding your favorite game. I'm not talking about your unit tested sort routine, I'm talking about complex puzzle logic and odd UI uses. I did publish all the source code to Delores on GitHub , but it wasn't an accident.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 24, 2020

I’m sure everyone is getting tired of playing Animal Crossing, and what better way to exercise your grey-matter than modding your favorite game. I’m not talking about your unit tested sort routine, I’m talking about complex puzzle logic and odd UI uses. Testers are the unsung heroes of your team, treat them very well.

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Played with Fire

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Astronomical observatory simulator, manipulating telescope POV, rotating planets on lens display like dioramas or puzzle boxes, relaxing, immersive 360 experience in space, UX pillars: precision, real-time, comfortable distances, avoiding locomotion sickness. Poses & Suggestive shapes / animations (hand & object).

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

While quenching his curiosity Olamide stumbled upon Encarta Kids, an enchanting encyclopedia brought to life through games, puzzles, and quizzes. He was trying to do animation with Unreal at the time. Later, they expanded their team with two more members from different departments and attempted an animation project called Ogbanje.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2024

With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. Adding 3D characters and animations to the story livens it up, but mainly complicates the production of an existing story. In many puzzle games, there is a common event involving completing specific actions to collect certain items for rewards. I know, shocking).

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Suppose you are designing artwork for a puzzle game, a minimalist art style with simple shapes and clean lines will suffice as they assist players in concentrating on the gameplay. Enhance the gameplay with animation Animation is an effective way to elevate your mobile game’s level of engagement and excitement.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 16, 2022

Interactive puzzle games, lesson plans, animated games, skill-building games, worksheets, storybooks, and many more make learning fun. Refining the animation. Our game designer team spent time refining the animation of the characters in order to bring them to life. Retaining Users & Upgrading Site. Multiplayer Games.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

high resolution high quality character models performing high quality animations and visual effects). those with engines that aren't designed to render and animate high quality humanoid character models) will also probably stick to pre-rendered cutscenes like 4X/strategy games, card games, simulation games (e.g.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The anime art style is fairly similar to the one in Genshin Impact, but one of the biggest differences is that Tower of Fantasy players explore the open sci-fi world of the planet Aida, rather than the fantasy setting depicted in Genshin Impact. So, does it live up to the promise? The difference between the two titles is their genre.

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