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Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game

Radiator Blog

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. There are 9 puzzles. a heater) to grow the plant.

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Wrapping up 2024 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Here at PreMortem.Games, we have great admiration for developers who tackle the entire game development cycle on their own. Because, lets be honest, creating games is hard and it takes a special kind of developer to choose the solo path. This game represents me as a developer, he says. I get excited to implement wacky ideas!

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Why Are Puzzle Games Important?

Game Wisdom

Why Are Puzzle Games Important? Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com When you think of gaming, it’s not perhaps puzzle games that first come to mind for most people; you might think of things like driving games, first-person shooters, or maybe massively multiplayer online games.

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Chiyo Launching on Steam and PlayStation in Q4 2023

Game Developer

A First-Person Escape Room Style Puzzle Game

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Meet Portal - The UK-based creative agency that's big in Sweden

GamesIndustry.biz

If you say the name Portal to most people in the games industry, what will jump to mind is Valve's classic first-person puzzle series. But for some of the leading developers and publishers in Sweden, they might think of the UK-based marketing creative agency led by Josh Heaton.

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Frightful Favourites: The GameDev.tv Community’s Top 10 Halloween Game

DameDev.tv

For gamers and game developers alike, this is the season to dive into the world of horror games, immersing ourselves in atmospheres filled with suspense, mystery, and pure fright. As the leaves turn and the shadows grow longer, what better way to celebrate than by revisiting some of the most terrifying games ever created?

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Actually talk to the (author-led AI) murder suspect in Dead Meat by Meaning Machine

PreMortem.Games

His debut game Unknown Number was the first game in what its creator Tom Keane called the ‘First Person Talkers’ genre. Now he’s ready to take talking games to the next level with his new project Dead Meat. But on a gameplay level, simply talking to a game is not inherently fun by itself.

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