PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Polish indie studio Eleven Puzzles has been making a name for themselves as the creators of some fine cooperative puzzle games, like Unsolved Case and Unboxing the Cryptic Killer. Co-founded by Adrian Olczyk and Karolina Pytka, the fully remote studio has been crafting unique multiplayer puzzle experiences since its inception in 2020.

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Puzzle Mechanics Communications Studios 138

PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

All this before there’s ever any playtesting done. If I’m happy with this design, I’ll prototype it and test that prototype. I played around with a few ideas and one of them was a simple cube rolling puzzle game. So I made a shift in puzzle design to negate that. I realized I missed this aspect a lot.

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Dev Puzzle Prototyping Development 104

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. Playtesting Playtesting involves testing a game with real players to assess its design, functionality, and entertainment value. require a unique approach.

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Mechanics Games Playtesting Concepts 65

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Running through the market by genre, Kress noted that King has done quite well, but other genres had suffered badly, with strategy, RPG, match puzzle, and casino games all down double digits. Shooters got creamed”, too, he said – down 33%. Kress predicted another two years of western market decline at around 5-10%.

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Games Cross platform Mobile Mobile 59

Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

In my first prototype, I had special “Draft Leaders” cards shuffled into segments of the Adventurer deck. In playtesting, the time between turns has rarely been an issue. In a game like Tasty Humans, each player is primarily lost in their own world of puzzle-solving. The Race to the Finish.

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Tile Games Playtesting Balance 130

Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. L of semen for each one.

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Code Educational Education Prototyping 100