Grumpy Gamer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

I have a (paid) art job opening for my side project. Think of it as a puzzle. You need to have experience building tiles sheets for a tile-based game, I would prefer it if you've worked on a released game, but if haven't and your art is just a hobby and you're really good, that's OK. Must love pixel art.

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Grumpy Gamer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

I have a (paid) art job opening for my side project. Think of it as a puzzle. You need to have experience building tiles sheets for a tile-based game, I would prefer it if you’ve worked on a released game, but if haven’t and your art is just a hobby and you’re really good, that’s OK.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Since most of us are unaware of the process of creating a game, we usually confuse game design and game art as being the same. In this blog, we will discuss the difference between game art vs game design and how each plays a unique role in game development. Let’s take the popular example of Candy Crush Saga , a level-based puzzle game.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Through this unique online network, Alan connected with Advanced Concept Art Course graduate Dogyeong (Do) Lee and Game Design Course graduate Alexios Vasilakis who both joined the Overwrite Interactive team. Currently in production, Gerel: Against the Corvus Empire is a 2D pixel art side-scrolling platformer with Metroidvania elements.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

Their first game, Genesis Noir, was already a moving work of art. This field of visual art emphasizes abstraction and graphic design to compress storytelling into quick digestible and fun chunks.” Now, with the follow-up, Nirvana Noir , the New York-based indie studio Feral Cat Den is crafting audio-visual poetry in motion.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 31, 2023

The Ground Screams To Whisper is not your typical game and neither is it just one thing, it’s a graphic novel, a puzzle game, a VR game and an album. The audience used tablets, AR apps, and VR headsets to immerse themselves in the experience and reveal the hidden stories behind the art.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2024

QoQ); Bridge Race (–4% QoQ); Magic Tiles 3 (–12% QoQ); and Build A Queen (–20% QoQ). Wood Nuts: Screw Puzzle The first game on the list is a title by Zego Studio: Wood Nuts: Screw Puzzle. In this game, the user solves various puzzles by unscrewing everything on the screen. Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As well as embarking on an epic Viking voyage and a wide variety of fights, players tend to a kingdom by growing crops and upgrading buildings with construction and management sim mechanics. As an example, Granblue Fantasy is an RPG with heavy social ements, while Puzzle & Dragons is a Match3 puzzle game.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 12, 2013

I’d do it as “enhanced low-res” Nice crisp retro art, but augmented by the hardware we have today: parallaxing, depth of field, warm glows, etc. No tutorials or hint systems or pansy-assed puzzles or catering to the mass-market or modernizing. Some puzzles will be hard, but all the puzzles will be fair.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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’. We ended up kind of struggling to really create a sense of progression and compelling puzzles.” Absolutely! Even a bit too much, maybe”, says Jean.

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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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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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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

Weve seen everything from the likes of PUBG x Jujustu Kaisen, to Puzzles & Dragons x Demon Slayer, Fortnite x Naruto, and Grand Summoners x One Punch Manto name a few historic examples. To name just a few, these include Fortnite (Battle Royale), Top War (4X Strategy), Puzzles & Dragons (Match3), and Tower of Fantasy (MMORPG).

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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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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thank you to the cocos team for providing a great engine that allowed us to build this game without technical constraints, and to use our creative space and abilities as we pleased. We are an adventure puzzle game with 7 big chapters and 300+ small chapters. and more than 20 different puzzle mechanisms.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 13, 2013

Nice crisp retro art, but augmented by the hardware we have today: parallaxing, depth of field, warm glows, etc. No tutorials or hint systems or pansy-assed puzzles or catering to the mass-market or modernizing. Some puzzles will be hard, but all the puzzles will be fair. Eight - There would be dialog puzzles.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

Not only did I upload all the source, but I also uploaded all the art and the entire FMOD project (many thanks to FMOD). I also uploaded the dev build of the Delores engine (including the complete debugger) so you can run all your edits and changes. If we broke a store build, it would be hours of tech support emails. They can't.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 24, 2020

But wait… there’s more… (wait for oohs and ahhs) Not only did I upload all the source, but I also uploaded all the art and the entire FMOD project (many thanks to FMOD). If we broke a store build, it would be hours of tech support emails. Releasing a build going to manufacture was nerve wracking and very expensive.

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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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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. To sell in this awfully noisy, competitive board gaming environment, you have to have mechanics and art that people really enjoy. Need help on your board game? Mid-Development.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

However, when people think of storytelling in games, they think of theme, story, art, components, and even box design. ” I’ll see a piece of art or hear an ancient myth and – boom – I’m inspired. Dylan: Chess is such a fantastic example: it’s really a geometric puzzle. The second is language.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 17, 2025

The true art lies in crafting a schedule that bends without breaking, like a skilled stunt performer. Building Blocks of a Bendy Schedule Think of your film shooting schedule like a game of Tetris every piece needs to fit just right. The LEGO Master Plan: Building Your Schedule Block by Block Remember playing with LEGO as a kid?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

Dream Games has joined that list by bolstering its hold on match-3 puzzles and widening its already mass-market audience through the addition of its newest game, Royal Kingdom , which features one of the smoothest casual PvP designs in the market. King Robert (left) and King Richard (right).

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On the other hand, playing Tasty Humans has short turns, which helps the game stay snappy even though it’s a brain-burny puzzle game. This is the art for Spectrum in War Co., is the art. If you can give your game a story, you build a whole world of context that draws patterns in the mechanics and the theme.

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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 12, 2024

Basically, power gamers (Spike), people who want to solve puzzles and make useless things useful (Johnny), and people who just like big, impressive things (Timmy). It's art, after all. Happily, there are players who get all their fun from solving puzzles like that. Then follow through. Follow your vision. Me, I sold it.

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2024

This training program invited 100 women from India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa who were mentored to build technical skills and create games they showcased on UEFN. The player is tasked with locating and restoring art before the gallery’s opening, else the player faces the uncertainty of being trapped inside forever.

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OPM Jobs

JUNE 20, 2023

This National Writing Day let’s celebrate the art of storytelling and the impact of words in games. With an sweet anthropomorphic art style that contrasts a dark and compelling storyline. You navigate the pages of Izzy’s diary, where written words materialise in the form of platforms and puzzles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. There are many more ways how data can increase your chances of building and operating a successful mobile game. No one tried to challenge whether it was worth building what the team originally had in mind.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

“You can solve Lego puzzles or build your own creations on any flat surface in your room. Users will also be able to decorate their physical spaces with “augments” such as digital works of art or weather alerts which are always in the same place, and always on while you wear the device.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 5, 2024

With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. Puzzle games have a simple yet addicting core loop: playing levels. Puzzle games have a simple yet addicting core loop: playing levels. This is where the most crucial player motivation for puzzle games comes into play: Win Streak.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 2, 2023

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. When I write a design document, I usually try to address the following: High level goal - What is this feature/system/puzzle/etc. supposed to do? What kind of experience do I want the player to have?

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

Over time, this evolved, incorporating more detailed pixel art, smooth pictorial Movement, and realistic effects. Art lacks depth and perspective in this type as it’s made on a two-dimensional plane. 3D Animation- This includes building models and animating them within a virtual 3D space. Advancements in 2.5D

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success. Create an account 2.

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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. During his 5th year of university, Olamide secured a job at Avalon and got to work with veterans from several other reputable studios like Ubisoft, Santa Monica and Electronic Arts (EA).

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Big Games

AUGUST 25, 2021

When we talk about building engaging and interactive mobile games, there are a few things that have to be considered while developing games. Easy and simple gameplay Handy and minimum tools User’s reviews and feedbacks When the following points are implemented in the game, you are sure to build the best gaming app.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

General skills and knowledge required to work in film and games "The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art." - Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar. You’ll learn industry-quality asset creation, building 3D props, creatures, and environments using Maya, ZBrush, and Substance Painter, guided by industry experts.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Even so, different types of video game-level designs, such as shooter-level design, platformer-level design, puzzle-level design, multiplayer-level design, etc. Principles of Level Design The practice of planning and building maps, stages, and missions is extremely important in a video game. require a unique approach.

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