Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Remnant II creative director David Adams discusses the path to making games as replayable as possible through procedural generation.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

inTIErrupted is a cooperative escape game about untangling an incredibly long, puzzle-filled tie without getting caught in such a compromising position.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Forest Quartet gathers the three remaining members of a jazz quartet as they grieve for their lead singer, facing their emotions through music and puzzles.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

From the beginning this project wasn’t just about the final product. I wanted to learn better practices for scalable and maintainable code.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 8, 2024

Bonfire Peaks and Sokobond Express developer Draknek has bundles of cash for a few lucky developers.

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Game Developer

JULY 16, 2024

The studio behind the viral free-to-play game Echo Chess plan on using its new funding to build out its debut title and other AI-powered projects.

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Game Developer

JUNE 20, 2024

Wood about the design parameters behind this charming puzzle platformer. We spoke with Valve veteran turned studio founder Matt T.

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Game Developer

MARCH 22, 2024

Abhi, designer and writer for Venba, talks about the familial and cultural connections found in food for immigrants finding their place in a new country, as well as how they designed puzzle-like play around cooking it.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This story is about the work that went on behind-the-scenes, learning from feedback, and adapting to create a game that pushes the genre in a new direction.

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Game Developer

MARCH 10, 2023

Mind Diver buries a mystery in someone's memories, tasking you with diving into someone's past experiences to get a lead on a missing person.

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Game Developer

JUNE 6, 2023

Encouragement, routine, and reinforcement are crucial to retraining neural pathways.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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 Communicate puzzle logic The creative process at Geometric Interactive follows a specific pattern. The art, sounds, and animation need to communicate the puzzle logic effectively.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A new Sensor Tower report says mobile puzzle games have generated $42 billion since the company began tracking data in 2013. Real-time puzzles such as Tetris and Traffic Jam Fever saw significant growth between January 2022 and March 2023, with a 103% increase in downloads and a 64% rise in revenue.

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Game Developer

JUNE 13, 2024

We spoke with Bernard Immole of Sometimes Y Games to discuss how the game’s face-altering puzzle elements affected character design and the work that goes into creating a game designed to make the player laugh.

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Game Developer

APRIL 25, 2023

The studio was quietly formed in 2022 by a group of former King, Seriously, and Next Games developers.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Slider takes players to a world within a 8-puzzle slide puzzle. By reorienting the pieces of the world, players will help people reconnect, open new paths forward, and figure out where your cat went.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

There are some fun puzzles in here but they all were cut for a reason, mostly pacing but sometimes because it wasn't as interesting as we thought. ** SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME YET. Game design isn't a destination, it's a journey and this was one of the stops along the way.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

With a knack for puzzles, arcades, and simulation games. For puzzle games, which thrive on repeated play and consistent engagement, daily missions offer a particularly compelling opportunity. Homescapes and its daily gift system that is quite similar to many other puzzle games. Take Toy Blast , for example.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The newest addition game from Mascot Bro Studio is TILT which is a physic gravity type game similar to portal series.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 6, 2023

“I thought that trying to piece together what happened in the past felt like a puzzle – a puzzle you could turn into a super emotionally powerful video game”, he says. ” imperfect photogrammetry One of the aspects Breum is most proud of in Mind Diver is how well the puzzles and the story complement each other.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Skala allows players to change the size and shape of the world and everything in it, asking them to solve puzzles by stretching and growing things.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 15, 2023

And if the game you’re working on is a match-3 puzzle, there is a widely accepted assumption that your target audience primarily consists of women aged between 25 and 45. A very casual summary of the casual puzzle player demographics. Puzzle RPG is the first thing that comes to mind for puzzle games that target a male audience.

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Unity Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Mairi Nolan, lead game designer at Eleven Puzzles, shares the importance of verbal interaction and how the team built communication into the studio’s latest release Unsolved Case.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 16, 2023

Launching on PlayStation Plus' Extra and Premium tiers likely helped Tha LTD and Enhance's puzzle platformer Humanity hit the 1 million mark in a few months.

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Game Development for Beginners

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Vinod Ravisankar built the Number Puzzle app as an Ad Supported app. Read more The post Privacy Policy for Number Puzzle appeared first on VionixStudio. This Service is provided by Vinod Ravisankar at no cost and is intended for use as is.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Paw Print Games’ light-hearted simulation-puzzle VR game is out now on PlayStation®VR2, SteamVR, and Meta Quest 2.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2024

The cozy puzzle game about organising household items was created by Max Inferno, a development team consisting of Anne Macmillan (art and animation) and Lukas Steinman (design and programming). Back then it was more a vertical slice, with ten puzzles that were playable in the browser. Read more

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Code with Mike

MARCH 8, 2023

But, I’m glad I stuck with it as it’s needed to solve door puzzles in Hogwarts Legacy. The Arithmancy puzzle doors are easily solved with some simple counting and very […] The post How To Solve Door Puzzles In Hogwarts Legacy appeared first on CodeWithMike. Don’t worry though, it’s super simple math.

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Game Wisdom

OCTOBER 29, 2023

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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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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Game Wisdom

MAY 24, 2024

Animal Well Can’t Quite Climb Out of Its Own Puzzles Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Animal Well is the latest metroidvania to do more than just challenge players with jumping and moving. Like Voidstranger and Tunic before it, the game features puzzles, puzzles in puzzles, puzzles in secrets in puzzles in… more secrets.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 8, 2024

But there's something particularly special to be said about its main mechanic, and the pure joy of experiencing its optical illusion puzzles for the first time, seeing reality shift before your eyes. "I

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 9, 2024

Part of 2024's cohort is Rafif Kalantan, an emerging narrative and game designer from Saudi Arabia who spoke to GamesIndustry.biz about her journey from studying computer science to winning the 2023 Yugo BAFTA Student Award for her puzzle game Eros Xavier's Love Solutions. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 30, 2023

Kemppainen details the journey: “It starts with writing and coming up with a general outline of the story and the main puzzles. However, he notes that AI has a hard time getting things right and that he is constantly experimenting with his story and puzzle designs in order to actually achieve something useful. “So,

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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 Communicate puzzle logic The creative process at Geometric Interactive follows a specific pattern. The art, sounds, and animation need to communicate the puzzle logic effectively.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Hearst Newspapers has acquired puzzle games hub Puzzmo. Developed by game designer Zach Gage and engineer Orta Therox, Puzzmo is a platform for original daily newspaper games and puzzles, such as SpellTower, Typeshift, Flipart, and Cross|Word. Puzzmo launched in October 2023 with a limited number of keys being released daily.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Max Inferno released A Little to the Left late last year, and artist, designer and company co-founder Annie Macmillan told Vince Pavey all about their work on the cosy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organise household items

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