PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

I used ChatGPT heavily while writing the backend Amazon service that handles the daily challenge. 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. No amount of playtesting is ever enough, he says.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 30, 2014

There wasn't a formal design document for the game, just the large complete puzzle dependency chart I keep on my wall. Posting these is easier then writing actual blob entries. Also, this is not the "design document", they are just notes and ideas I'd jotted down. I have no idea where that went to. Many more to come.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 29, 2014

There wasn’t a formal design document for the game, just the large complete puzzle dependency chart I keep on my wall. Posting these is easier then writing actual blob entries. Also, this is not the “design document”, they are just notes and ideas I’d jotted down. I have no idea where that went to.

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Puzzle Writing Games 130

Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 12, 2004

A great number of people in this business secretly (and not so secretly) wish they were making movies, not writing video games. What makes most games tough to play is that the puzzles are arbitrary and unconnected. It's an advanced puzzle, I was told. Backwards Puzzles. Knock it off! I disagree. What is the reasoning?

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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.

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AI Game Developer Game Development Point and Click 190

Grumpy Gamer

JUNE 5, 2013

they have] taken a genre amalgam that's been dear to my heart since Puzzle Quest and injected a heavy dose of humor and a penchant for breaking into song. Here's our bold statement of the day: Scurvy Scallywags is what every puzzle game secretly wants to be like.". Touch Arcade Review. It's almost the perfect game.". Jay is Games. "I

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Grumpy Gamer

JUNE 4, 2013

” Touch Arcade Review “[they have] taken a genre amalgam that’s been dear to my heart since Puzzle Quest and injected a heavy dose of humor and a penchant for breaking into song. ” 148Apps “Here’s our bold statement of the day: Scurvy Scallywags is what every puzzle game secretly wants to be like.”

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Puzzle Entertainment Mechanics Scripting 130

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With a knack for puzzles, arcades, and simulation games. When Ahmetcan isn’t busy crafting and designing killer features, you’ll find him exploring Berlin's vibrant tech scene or writing for Deconstructor of Fun in one of the hipster cafes of the city.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 11, 2004

” A great number of people in this business secretly (and not so secretly) wish they were making movies, not writing video games. What makes most games tough to play is that the puzzles are arbitrary and unconnected. It’s an advanced puzzle, I was told. Knock it off! I disagree. What is the reasoning? There is none.

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Puzzle Games Entertainment Graphics 130

Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

When I write, music is helpful. Lancelot's Hangover: After beta testing, what do you do if you realize a series of puzzles doesn't work. Do you cut off the whole series of the puzzles (meaning wasting time/art/effort)? Do you keep most art and animations but rebuild the whole series of puzzle in a different way?

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Puzzle Point and Click Playtesting Art 130

Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 17, 2018

When I write, music is helpful. Lancelot’s Hangover: After beta testing, what do you do if you realize a series of puzzles doesn’t work. Do you cut off the whole series of the puzzles (meaning wasting time/art/effort)? Do you keep most art and animations but rebuild the whole series of puzzle in a different way?

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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’. We ended up kind of struggling to really create a sense of progression and compelling puzzles.” Absolutely! Even a bit too much, maybe”, says Jean.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

Weve seen everything from the likes of PUBG x Jujustu Kaisen, to Puzzles & Dragons x Demon Slayer, Fortnite x Naruto, and Grand Summoners x One Punch Manto name a few historic examples. To name just a few, these include Fortnite (Battle Royale), Top War (4X Strategy), Puzzles & Dragons (Match3), and Tower of Fantasy (MMORPG).

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

As an example, a puzzle minigame might feature consumable boosters or rewarded ads to help players in the levels, while a more complex standalone minigame might introduce a completely new monetized meta layer. Introducing minigames into your game also provides an opportunity to add new monetization elements.

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Mechanics Puzzle Mobile Mobile 236

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. Playing levels awards stars , which are used to earn coins in the Puzzle Pass. Looking at the market, there have been plenty of combinations of Puzzle Core + Invest & Express hybrid games attempted. The Twist: The Puzzle Pass.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 13, 2020

I’ve wanted to write about Exit Games for a while, but it’s tricky! The game is full of mysteries, riddles, and puzzles. Some of the puzzles in Exit Games, much like in real-life Escape Rooms, are devilishly hard. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 12, 2013

No tutorials or hint systems or pansy-assed puzzles or catering to the mass-market or modernizing. Some puzzles will be hard, but all the puzzles will be fair. Eight - There would be dialog puzzles. They weren’t really puzzles, but that’s what we called them. You’re going to get stuck.

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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

We are an adventure puzzle game with 7 big chapters and 300+ small chapters. and more than 20 different puzzle mechanisms. That’s because there will be a read-on-write problem with gl. It contains 7 different styles of scenes, including ocean, water, bamboo forest, etc., Also a full screen copyPass to get it done.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

Evan Anthony: “Alternating between two timelines with such different visual designs, mechanics, and stories has been a real brain puzzle for us. They will have to talk to a diverse set of characters and find clues in dialogues and intricate puzzles, and unravel a conspiracy that could bring the world to its end.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. Empires and Puzzles regularly takes the top spot in Puzzle RPG category in the West (when Dokkan is having a post event hangover).

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 13, 2013

No tutorials or hint systems or pansy-assed puzzles or catering to the mass-market or modernizing. Some puzzles will be hard, but all the puzzles will be fair. Eight - There would be dialog puzzles. They weren't really puzzles, but that's what we called them. It would be an adventure game for the hardcore.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 5, 2023

I had the idea of packaging information on the mass extinction crisis in a game where you solve puzzles and problems. Professional Voice Actor He spent the next two years working on the narrative-driven puzzle game. I started writing the story that the player hears while progressing through the levels.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As the creative lead, Frans takes care of writing storylines, creating assets and planning out the bigger picture of the title.” This took us literal years to master, and we still find that planning puzzles for VR requires extra attention to detail to make it work. It’s a horror game set on a sinking ship around the early 1900’s. “I

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

“It was all about puzzle design, analytical thinking, and understanding player agency and mechanics”, she says. ” Animation, writing and marketing are the three majors Simpson decided to take. My course covers writing and animating for games, which I enjoy. She explains, “It is really time-consuming.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Travel around gathering ingredients (which didn't feel tedious as you needed to Island-hop for other story & puzzle reasons) then cast spells that advance the story. I like quests which turn out to be something completely different than you expect, and where the good writing/setup makes you forget that its a scripted event.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I just assumed game development involved writing code all day.” I’m not good with story telling or puzzle design, so combining some expertise would be nice.” Then he discovered the Unreal Engine and everything changed. While he enjoys the freedom of developing games by himself at his own pace, Splenbit wouldn’t mind working in a team.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

And so, the duo started exploring different ways to turn talking into a puzzle. For us, it’s imperative to demonstrate a new mode of working with AI that incorporates high quality original writing as a foundational puzzle-piece. Best of all it’s a tried and tested gameplay set-up, like in LA Noire.

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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 12, 2024

I wanted to write a third and final article about Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3 for short), a really great game that most people have moved on from, but I want to talk about the most important part of any RPG: LOOT. Happily, there are players who get all their fun from solving puzzles like that. Making money writing helps the self-esteem.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It usually starts with a ‘think pad’, which is basically just a google doc where I write down anything to do with a specific game concept. 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. This is never a good thing.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Nor am I writing a tourism promo. Anchor Companies The third piece of the puzzle - is major studios that not only offer a large number of jobs but can act as talent magnets and training grounds for future founders. After one reluctant visit, we now return annually. But enough of that. Abu Dhabi isnt a perfect city.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What inspired me to write about them is their approach to User Acquisition (UA) and how UA and creative findings impact their product roadmap. The misleading ad push was succeeded by the famous "Pull the pin" puzzle-style ads that put Evony and Hero Wars on the map in the past few years. The initial push with misleading ads from 2019.

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OPM Jobs

JUNE 20, 2023

This National Writing Day let’s celebrate the art of storytelling and the impact of words in games. Several exceptional titles have emerged that demonstrate the incredible potential of writing and narrative in creating immersive and engaging gameplay experiences. Happy National Writing Day! Find it on Steam here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Increasingly successful or growing games are delivering on that promise with character driven, typically short scenario form writing eerily similar to a Desperate Housewives episode. Players pay extra moves to complete challenges to see new mechanics/puzzles, not progress a story) Narrative-driven games are fundamentally different.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Understanding this can help you (and me) to write more popular and effective games. You might as well write your Game Manifesto. This often inspires ambitious young people to write their MANIFESTO about the TRUE MEANING OF VIDEO GAMES. "I One is overcoming: Defeating puzzles, challenges, other people. Everyone else has.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 28, 2024

The best music is stuff like silly songs they write for the dog chasing sequences. The worst stuff is when they have to write the 18th Epic Trailer Edit version of One Winged Angel. And the Queen’s Blood puzzles are extremely well designed. I do feel like even the composers started to get bored near the end, though.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 24, 2023

While his creative process involves writing down ideas constantly, Breton admits to implementing many things ‘on the fly’, particularly dialogue and interactions. I write down ideas constantly, most often the best ideas come when I’m about to sleep at night. Puzzles are also adapted for blindness.

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