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Game Developer
JUNE 20, 2024
We spoke with Valve veteran turned studio founder Matt T. Wood about the design parameters behind this charming puzzle platformer.
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Game Developer
JUNE 20, 2024
We spoke with Valve veteran turned studio founder Matt T. Wood about the design parameters behind this charming puzzle platformer.
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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 Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid. years of development.
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It may have been born out of necessity, but after two successful murder mystery games EQ Studios can now be considered somewhat of a specialist in this particular genre. Still, Fery Tomi, Director of the Las Vegas based studio, wants to keep all options open for the next project. Some started from a puzzle standpoint.
Deconstructor of Fun
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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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No, we never do that," he quickly says, "Because that's how you sink a studio. Looking at Schell Games' recent output, it's pretty easy to spot a common thread. You say, 'We're about this one thing' and then the world moves on. Then you sink, right? Read more
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While this often translates to how well said characters do in combat or when confronted by puzzles, developers are exploring more ways in which players can shape stories as well. One such studio is As Dusk Falls developer Interior Night.
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Founded by Helen Burnill, who spent more than a decade in various director positions at Fall Guys developer Mediatonic, the company will initially focus on assisting established studios bringing their next games to market and helping them to improve the chances of each new release living up to previous successes. Read more
PreMortem.Games
JULY 12, 2024
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PreMortem.Games
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Deconstructor of Fun
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This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. Playrix released Puzzle Breakers into soft-launch in late 2019. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile.
PreMortem.Games
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Your demo should be an excellent example of what you intend your game to be, should showcase your team’s developmental ability, and show that your studio can hand in deliverables on time and budget. It showcases the game’s primary mechanics, which encompass a unique camera/perspective system, puzzle-solving, and shooting.
PreMortem.Games
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Midnight Girl , from indie studio Italic , oozes French cool. Our last game was a kids puzzle game, our current game is a point-and-click adventure and our next game might be something completely different.” The post Midnight Girl by indie studio Italic is a cool cat – Cat burglar that is appeared first on PreMortem Games.
PreMortem.Games
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Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres” Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. I’m not good with story telling or puzzle design, so combining some expertise would be nice.” It’s something different.
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Now, with the follow-up, Nirvana Noir , the New York-based indie studio Feral Cat Den is crafting audio-visual poetry in motion. This gave the studio a bit of an outsider perspective. Evan Anthony: “Alternating between two timelines with such different visual designs, mechanics, and stories has been a real brain puzzle for us.
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Like many indie studios, Rendlike from the Czech Republic was born from a passion for video games and the craft of creating them. Its founder, Jaroslav Meloun, started his career in 2011, when he joined Silicon Jelly, creating the cute puzzle platformer Mimpi.
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Seattle, USA-based studio Polyarc showcased the highly immersive nature of VR earlier with their popular puzzle platformer Moss. He explains: “Interestingly enough, when the studio was founded, there were two prototypes that were built. The idea has actually been there since day one.” That ultimately became Moss as you know.
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The game is the debut of Swiss indie game studio Naraven Games. Compelling puzzles And so the team built the game around the story. The gameplay mechanics and puzzles all came from the question ‘what fun things could we mess with inside a phone’. Or ‘we need something that helps us when we’re stuck in puzzles, but what?
Deconstructor of Fun
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Derby-based Bulkhead is best known as the team behind World War 2 shooter Battalion 1944 and first-person puzzle game The Turing Test. The two studios are collaborating on the online action multiplayer game, which is heading to PC and console starting with a closed beta in 2023.
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My first encounter with Cassie Simpson was during the inaugural Xbox Game Studios Game Camp Africa in 2023. In December 2023, she exhibited some of Chroma Pixel Games’ studio work at Africa Games Week and attended Playtopia Festival. ” She represented the studio on a panel at the Xbox Game Studios Game Camp in 2023.
Game Refinery
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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
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Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. It allows players to instantly swap places with any physics based object which allows for some clever puzzling through the relentless levels. “We
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In the upcoming Sci-Fi Action-Puzzle FPS IHAS , from Ukrainian solo developer Vladyslav Pidiashenko , players wake up aboard a giant, desolate spaceship swarming with hostile robots. A year later, I started to add puzzles and worked out a story and a few key philosophical concepts for the game.” Another unique point is the weapon.
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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. But these people aren’t necessarily the people that play challenging puzzle games. I figured that’s something that’s probably relatively easy to make. Same goes for the other way around.
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