Indie DB

JULY 12, 2023

Obtain vital data in the fight against The Betterment! Use unique cybernetic units to complete complex puzzles across various beautiful landscapes. Take control of convicted criminal & former scientist BS-23 and embark on a dangerous journey across the galaxy!

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The arena has a little observation deck with a little floor hatch to drop down into the fight when the player's ready. Following a pattern from one of my previous maps "Daughter Drink This Water" , each arena gradually unlocks with neighboring arenas after the fight. I started by blocking out a small arena.

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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 The solution he came up with was to mix up linear gameplay sections, open sections with world jumping, and tense boss fights. years of development.

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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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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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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

none of Dishonored's morality system and I think this is good, the "stealth puzzle = humane cage free assassination" philosophy has aged poorly imo 69% less stealth. This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power). Limited regen (e.g.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 9, 2011

Maniac Mansion is a game filed with dead ends, backwards puzzles and no-win situations. I'm going to keep the window shade open the whole fight. Maniac Mansion is a game that is close to 25 years old and started the whole point-and-click adventure genera in addition to coining the term 'cut-scene' used throughout the civilized world.

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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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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 8, 2011

Maniac Mansion is a game filed with dead ends, backwards puzzles and no-win situations. I’m going to keep the window shade open the whole fight. Maniac Mansion is a flawed game, but that’s what makes it so interesting. If I can’t sleep on a plane, no one else is going to either.

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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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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. Introducing minigames into your game also provides an opportunity to add new monetization elements.

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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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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). Happily, there are players who get all their fun from solving puzzles like that. I found fights in BG3 where it became really hard to target the high-up enemies.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Solo dev Dr.Kucho fights for true video games: “People play guided tours now” Mario Malagrino , creator of the recently released game Crude , knows exactly why he is working solo. “My I’m not good with story telling or puzzle design, so combining some expertise would be nice.” I enjoyed what I was doing very much.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Till date Team Fight Tactics has reached bit over 11M installs. A new puzzle for the active community to solve. In years, we expect Team Fight Tactics to grow into a Billion Dollar game.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

9 Most Popular Video Game Genres Dominating the Gaming Market Adventure Games Adventure games feature minimal fighting and rely rather on narrative. Players typically interact with the environment and other characters in order to solve puzzles containing clues to advance in the gameplay. Which gaming genres should you choose?

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 15, 2024

You can always make the numbers bigger, sure, but that's boring and leads to eternal fights. Instead, Gygax filled his dungeon with obscure puzzles and instant deathtraps. Looking at it, you can tell there's not going to be a lot of fighting. In the end, you might fight the demilich Acererack. Pwned, n00b.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

I also tried to tackle another design weakness of mine -- I rely a lot on fights with shotguns. With a well-timed low gravity jump, the player can now escape the arena and fight through the scientists' lab to escape in a way that evokes Portal. The water is now boring and blue.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m currently playing through Baldurs Gate 3 and in one instance i began fighting one group of enemies, only for another to show up that distracted them. Essentially you have to use this distraction effectively to win the fight because it collects the enemies in a group and the interjecting enemy eventually leaves.

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iHobo

MARCH 8, 2023

Suppose you have a fighting game. 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 problem-solving motive is after the same thing as the victory-motive: but it goes about it in a completely different way.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Small Giant did it with Puzzle and Empires. This makes RPGs the third-largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.0Bn) and Puzzle ($5.1Bn) games. Puzzle RPG Within the Puzzle RPG Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle continues to reign supreme powered by its strong home market of Japan, which brings over half of its +$600M a year revenues.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Similar to the mechanics of Genshin Impact, the player explores the vast open-world by climbing on the walls, swimming in the rivers, gliding in the skies, wiping out enemies, and solving different kinds of puzzles. As a typical MMORPG feature, players can also challenge others for an open-world fight. Guild adds up to social features.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

One is overcoming: Defeating puzzles, challenges, other people. Puzzle games create a very simple, abstract world in which you can be smart, competent, and have mastery. If you dispute the power fantasy element of this, I merely observe this: When you solve a difficult puzzle correctly, you feel powerful. It is what they expect.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

(The following is an excerpt from Kyle Orland's upcoming book Minesweeper, an in-depth look at the history and evolution of the classic puzzle game that has been a mainstay of Microsoft's since it came pre-installed with every copy of Windows 3.1. Eastern on March 7.)

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There's a Portal-like moment where you escape the puzzle. The high visual polish and stellar production values adorn a solid but predictable gameplay loop: you fight through dungeons with random rooms / enemies, collect resources, and bring them back to your hub to build up your village and its inhabitants.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

This makes RPGs the third largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.4Bn) and Puzzle ($4.5Bn) games. For example, entering Fighting games is nearly suicidal effort. Idle RPGs (not to be confused with Idle games) and Puzzle RPGs were the biggest growing sub-genres in 2019. Installs are supporting the story.

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Game Errors

APRIL 10, 2023

Fighting in the streets After working in the production of Irem’s 1984 beat ‘em up game Kung-Fu Master, which was an instant success both in Asia and North America, Japanese designer, director and producer Takashi Nishiyama came up with the idea for a fighting game centered around the boss fights of the previous title.

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Sirlin

AUGUST 8, 2018

It covers most of my career, including work on Street Fighter HD Remix, Puzzle Fighter, almost Street Fighter 4, Yomi, Codex, and FantasyStrike. You will even learn what a "kara throw" is in fighting games, if you don't already know. Designer Notes Episode 41, DAVID SIRLIN - PART 1

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That fight really stomped me." "Do So I went onto Twitch and YouTube and watched how Serious Gamerz did the hard fights. The fights were just too fast and chaotic for anything else, especially against the tough bosses. Then they went back to standard tactics and concentrating on the fight. Two problems with this.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

You can't manually choose to target, because that part of the puzzle is solved by the algorithm. Informed of this insight, Nexter’s creative marketing team made hugely successful ads that appeal more to the thinking side of Hero Wars, not the fighting side. “In most app advertising inventories, you do not have many levers to pull.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

I want to show you some of what I'm working (Codex, Flowchart, and a Fighting game) and tell you about Patreon. Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). The best description I've had of the game from player so far has been, "Wow this feels like playing a fighting game really badly!"

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This usually means content like cinematics, plotted narrative, voiced lines, action set pieces, puzzles, quick time events, scripted boss fights, that sort of thing. ALT To answer your second question, the inverse of this - the least devtime-efficient content - is game content that is primarily single-use.

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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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Game Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

“You can solve Lego puzzles or build your own creations on any flat surface in your room. Meta has teamed up with various entertainment providers to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming, NBA games, and professional ring fighting tournaments to Quest.

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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. Tasty Humans is about monsters fighting humans instead of the other way around, which gets a sick laugh out of everybody who sees the game. The mere threat is usually enough to keep the game going.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 9, 2024

During those hours of walking and fighting (and, in Baldur's Gate 3, searching 20000 identical crates), players will forget a ton of story. Portal was a solid 2 hour puzzle game. Each chapter had exactly one very memorable, hateable villain to fight. So to make your story memorable, keep it simple. Remember Persona 5 ?

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Big Games

AUGUST 19, 2021

Adventure: The games of this type have reflex testing and puzzle gameplay. Strategy: Games in this genre challenge the mind with strategic dilemmas, tactical puzzles, and shootouts. The urge to complete the task, fight the obstacles and rescue the victims gives mere satisfaction to the players.

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