Brand Game Development

JUNE 25, 2019

Pattern building board games are really popular among the hobby board gaming crowd. Board Game Geek cites Azul , Sagrada , A Feast for Odin , and Quadropolis as pattern building board games. There is no satisfactory “10 steps to create a pattern building board game” guide out there. There are many, many more as well.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A narrative can also help with pacing, building and releasing tension alongside key story beats while directing the players’ attention and emotions through them, all the while supporting other features and creating a meaningful foundation for retention.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 9, 2023

Brothers-in-Law Eric Reynolds and Paul Harvey were building a successful business in mobile escape rooms when Covid hit. 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. “I And just like that Escape Mail was born.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In the upcoming Sci-Fi Action-Puzzle FPS IHAS , from Ukrainian solo developer Vladyslav Pidiashenko , players wake up aboard a giant, desolate spaceship swarming with hostile robots. After finishing IHAS, I will start to build a strong team to work on games that are beyond my scope a solo dev.” How did you get the idea for IHAS?

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Sustain and build better games by appealing to new player motivations. This means many hyper-casual and casual games are looking for ways to increase long-term retention, build IAPs and increase their LTVs. Analyzing the various ways you could introduce social elements into your game is a great way of building engagement and retention.

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Indie DB

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Create unique islands, place objects however you like, and build your own world! Weve also added support for MacBooks on Apple Silicon, so even more players can join our community.

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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. Will you go heavy on economy, offense, or build an intricate engine? Improve your deck (of chips!)

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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. Will you go heavy on economy, offense, or build an intricate engine? It will also be coming to iOS just a few weeks later.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Silly things He admits that game- and level design was a real puzzle to solve in the semi-open world that allows players to carve their own paths by smashing through just about everything. “It Buildings crumble on impact, glass shatters and debris bounces off the car into the street.

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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 At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen. years of development.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 4, 2024

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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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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 10, 2025

This led to an investment boom in 2021-2022, with Dream Games emerging as the fastest Turkish unicorn , proving that Turkish studios could go beyond hyper-casual into puzzle dominance. Can they build a second hit, or is this a one-game wonder? Harder Questions: Can Trkiye Break Out Beyond Puzzle & Casual?

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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

APRIL 6, 2023

As an example, a puzzle minigame might feature consumable boosters or rewarded ads to help players in the levels, while a more complex standalone minigame might introduce a completely new monetized meta layer. This game mode is an integral part of the whole game, as there are considerable benefits the base and its buildings bring.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 16, 2013

I might have found a way to get xcode to build objective-c for Android, if so, we’ll port it there. Of course, a year later Puzzle Quests comes out and sells a billion copies. It will be coming out for the iPhone and iPad in a couple of months. I’ve always loved match-3 games, there is something zen-like about playing them.

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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. Each character has different strengths, so they push you in different directions when building the rest of your deck. Deep crashes are in short supply in Puzzle Strike 2. Bal-Bas-Beta, Clockwork Guardian.

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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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Game Refinery

JUNE 21, 2023

Companies have since been forced to seek permission from app users before tracking their activity across other apps and websites for advertising purposes, meaning they now lack much of the valuable data previously used to build highly-effective UA campaigns.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 18, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s base set comes with 10 characters to choose from. Each character has different strengths, so they push you in different directions when building the rest of your deck. The punchline though is that in Puzzle Strike 2, you often live your life right at that edge and beyond. Grave, Wind Warrior.

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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. Hay Day Pop however shows that Supercell has learned their lessons and clearly understands how to build on the genre. It has a solid core game design, and a meta design that builds upon the successes we’ve seen in the market.

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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. Here are a bunch more cards that trigger chain combos, to give you a sense of it: Because the chain mechanic triggers only on playing consecutive same-color cards, it has an effect on how you build your deck.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 13, 2020

The game is full of mysteries, riddles, and puzzles. Some of the puzzles in Exit Games, much like in real-life Escape Rooms, are devilishly hard. Other puzzles are more obvious, but for whatever reason, you hit a wall and you spend 15 minutes making zero progress. Build a lasting brand so you can release multiple products.

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Grumpy Gamer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

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 have prior experience building tile sheets and tile maps (the more the better).

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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. Drawing a card for every discard you do is the powerful building block an engine (notice that Vampire is a pink card, the color that often has engine-building cards.)

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

We seek to build long-form interactive storytelling that features the tactile interactions and transition heavy animation that we’re familiar with. Evan Anthony: “Alternating between two timelines with such different visual designs, mechanics, and stories has been a real brain puzzle for us.

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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. Pink is the color of engine building and it has two really solid building blocks here.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. Empires and Puzzles regularly takes the top spot in Puzzle RPG category in the West (when Dokkan is having a post event hangover).

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Grumpy Gamer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

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. I have a (paid) art job opening for my side project.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Introduction In this blog, we will explore how Good Job Games crafted a scalable and secure build pipeline on AWS, utilizing services like Amazon EC2 , Amazon EFS , and Amazon S3 to optimize its game development processes. In the early stages, the company relied on an internal system that handled tasks such as build queuing.

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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.” You would even have to build the train wheels yourself. And that’s what game development is to him at the moment, a hobby.

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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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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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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. From building captivating stories to curating mesmerizing artistic elements, she pours her heart and soul into every project. Nyambura is known for bringing stunning works of art to life.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 12, 2013

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. They weren’t really puzzles, but that’s what we called them. You’re going to get stuck. True story.

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Game Refinery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In the case of both games, the renovation features are implemented as part of the core loop alongside puzzle mechanics: play levels → get currency → renovate in meta. Other puzzle and renovation games such as Homescapes have introduced features focusing on player renovation/customization rather than building renovation.

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