Game Developer

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Shutter has players solving puzzles using a camera that can alter the shape and size of objects through messing with their perspective.

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Game Developer

APRIL 21, 2023

In this free GDC Vault talk, creative director Wren Brier talks about the design pillars behind Unpacking's creation

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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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Puzzle 189

Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Chatting with a game designer friend the other day and we were bemoaning the state of adventure game puzzles and it got us talking. So I was wondering what is your favorite puzzle in Thimbleweed Park, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island or any other classic point-and-click game? What makes a puzzle good? What makes a puzzle hard?

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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 Wisdom

APRIL 13, 2025

Making a Metroidvania Puzzle Game With Gentoo Rescue Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this perceptive podcast, I sat down with Jagriff who is the designer of the upcoming puzzle game Gentoo Rescue.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The three-year-old studio is working on a puzzle title its investors say 'has the type of commercial mindset required to succeed in a demanding mobile market.'

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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

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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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

With a knack for puzzles, arcades, and simulation games. The puzzle genre is a powerhouse in mobile gaming, generating over $7 billion annually in in-app purchases (IAP). Titles like Match Factory , Triple Match 3D , and Tile Busters have successfully carved out space by introducing fresh mechanics to the puzzle category.

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Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Ten Great Adventure-Game Puzzles P.S. I’m not linking this just because I’m mentioned three times. I’m not.

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Chatting with a game designer friend the other day and we were bemoaning the state of adventure game puzzles and it got us talking. So I was wondering what is your favorite puzzle in Thimbleweed Park, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island or any other classic point-and-click game? What makes a puzzle good? What makes a puzzle hard?

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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 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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Puzzle 325

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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Puzzle 219

Game Developer

JUNE 6, 2023

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

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 22, 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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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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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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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 Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In this blog, we look at some of the new and interesting ways developers have implemented minigames into some of the most popular mobile titles on the market, from Royal Match’s Wordle-inspired potion puzzle to Goddess of Victory: NIKKE’s recreation of Dave the Diver. Where it starts to diversify is when you begin to explore the wider island.

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features. Only 15% of casual puzzle games in the US top grossing 200 have implemented it, despite it proving reasonably effective at boosting performance in several level-based puzzle games.

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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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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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Radiator Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

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. The Witness fully commits to hundreds of puzzles at the scope of an open world game.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 9, 2023

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. By applying everything they had learned by designing puzzles for escape rooms, Reynolds and Harvey managed to design an ambitious 12-episode first season. Step 1: Wonder.

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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 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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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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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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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 Developer

MARCH 3, 2025

Coincidence will make puzzle games like Zachtronics used to, but it also appears to be dabbling in other mediums like in-person card games.

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