Today I made a small addition to a Javascript library I sometimes use to generate nonograms.
This tool can now build a solvable grid in the form of a valid QR Code that, once decoded, reveals some text:
To find more about it: Nonogram JS demo page.
Note that I've …
Against the Wall is a videogame in its prototype stage. It is set against the side of a wall that stretches infinitely in every direction. The player must travel up the wall by manipulating its bricks, pulling them partially out of the wall to create ledges and staircases using a magic wand.
Against the Wall was developed during the Ludum Dare #20
Il s'agit d'un jeu d'exploration-énigme à la 1ère personne pour Windows. Le développement du jeu semble abandonné, après avoir duré de 2011 à 2016, mais j'ai adoré tester ce prototype. L'univers est assez vide mais réserve une petite surprise. Arriver au bout de cette démo mettra votre patience à rude épreuve, mais j'ai personnellement adoré l'expérience
Ce jeu m'a un peu rappelé DUE de Rubeki
In this puzzle-platformer, each level is made up of 9 joined together rooms. Shift the columns and rows of the level to separate and rejoin the various rooms, to create new (and perilous) paths for your Mini-taur to reach the exit. Good luck!
Great short game! Only annoyance is the limited window resolution
Catty & Batty: The Spirit Guide is a casual couch co-op puzzle game, inspired by Lemmings and Tower Defense!
A lovely 2-players puzzle game, with pretty hand-drawn graphics!
Un très bon court jeu coopératif pour 2 joueurs, nécessitant 2 ordinateurs, basé sur la résolution d'énigmes
Cette année, grâce à @kleph qui m'en a parlé, je participe au Advent of Code :
Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as a speed contest, interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, or to challenge each other.
You don't need a computer science background to participate - just a little programming knowledge and some problem solving skills will get you pretty far. Nor do you need a fancy computer; every problem has a solution that completes in at most 15 seconds on ten-year-old hardware.
Il n'y a pas de jeu. Donc n'allez pas tout faire planter en cliquant partout. Vous ne voudriez tout de même pas être expulsé de votre univers vidéoludique, n'est-ce pas ? Bien sûr que non.
There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!
Voici mon jeu favori du trimestre ! (avec Red Ronin)
Les puzzles sont vraiment géniaux et nécessitent de constamment penser en-dehors de la boîte.
J'ai aussi beaucoup aimé les références au cri de Wilhelm et à de nombreux jeux vidéo, la chanson hip-hop de Game, et surtout être à chaque fois surpris, agréablement, par l'originalité chaque nouveau chapitre !
Enfant, je jouais à Zelda - A Link To The Past avec ma soeur, c'était donc génial de voir les codes du genre ont été admirablement repris dans certains passages de TINGWD !
The Ten Principles of Puzzle Design:
- make the goal of the puzzle easy to understand
- make it easy to get started
- give the player a sense of progress
- give the puzzle a sense of solvability
- increase the difficulty gradually
- have parallelism to let the player rest
- have a pyramid structure to extend the level of interest
- have hints in order to extend the level of interest
- give the answer
- perceptual shifts are double-edged swords
- The Mechanics
The player should not have to figure "what to do"
just "how to do it". - The Catch
Logical contradiction where 2 things are seemingly
in conflict with one another. - The Revelation
Think outside the box, about how the game works
This discovery becomes part of your toolbox going on - The Assumption
Lure the player that he knows how to beat the puzzle.
Why?- Gives the player a starting point
- Help to build a mental model of the puzzle
- Ensure the player fails the puzzle the 1st time
- Focus the player on the puzzle Catch
- The Presentation
Pretty minimalist, with few moving parts,
giving the feeling that it shouldn't be hard to beat
Also: provide clear feedback - The Curve
No puzzle is given to the player in isolation
Criteria to judge a puzzle difficulty:- Number of possible solutions
- Number of steps required
- Number of options a player can choose at each moment
- Number of mechanics the player needs to be familiar with
Edge Not Found is a Sokoban-style puzzle game set on an infinitely repeating grid. There are 20+ puzzles and they get can get pretty tricky.
A video game in less than 13 kilobytes of Javascript!
An excellent puzzle game!
Basically it's "Rush Hour" with portals
The last level is very tough though, I have been stuck on it for several hours...
Chessformer is a grid-based puzzle platformer with Chess pieces. Each of the pieces moves as expected, but they fall down after moving and can't move again until they stop falling. The goal in each level is to capture the opposing king
I loved it!
Really fun, with right level of difficulty and quite original!
The last level was challenging but it was nice to never have to restart it. Good job really, very polished and interesting levels!
Made with the Stencyl game engine
A very smooth adventure game based on logic puzzles: the logic puzzles are short and addictive.
We were 3 players solving them cooperatively, and we had a lot of fun!
It reminded me a lot of Agent A.
Do not expect much from the story, but its lifespan, puzzles variety and intuitive controls make it a video game with a very good value for its price.
Le jeu est jouable en français et convient à des enfants.
Spring Falls is a puzzle game about water, erosion, and watching things grow.
Manipulate the landscape and bring wildflowers to life as you make your way down a peaceful mountainside.
Soft visuals, ambient guitar work, and environmental sounds come together to create a meditative, relaxing experience.
A very relaxing logic puzzle game, with a poetic artistic direction, intuitive (&) fluid game mechanics and smart levels.
I really enjoyed it, it's well worth the price!
Play with a friend! Can you decipher enigmatic puzzles that require constant communication between you and your teammate to solve? [...] Using two separate devices, play with a friend on the couch or even all the way across the globe on the phone or video chat!
Un très chouette court jeu en ligne, gratuit, pour 2 joueurs, dans la veine des Escape Rooms.
Comptez 30-45min. Chaque joueur doit avoir un écran.
Wow, great new logic puzzle I just discovered!
In this logic puzzle you have to choose nine unique numbers (1 through 9) so that each row and column has a sum of 9 or less.
A really nice logic puzzle for amateurs of maths & voting systems!
Aquarium is a logic puzzle with simple rules and challenging solutions.
The rules of Aquarium are simple:
The puzzle is played on a rectangular grid divided into blocks called "aquariums"
You have to "fill" the aquariums with water up to a certain level or leave it empty.
The water level in each aquarium is one and the same across its full width
The numbers outside the grid show the number of filled cells horizontally and vertically.
Note: there is a "Mass Print" page
- Not Knowing What to Do
- The Pixel Hunt
- Cock-Blocking aka "you can't do that -- at least not now"
- No - Not THAT Paper : send the player off in search of something that is represented in the background artwork
- The Pointless Conversation Option
- End objective needs to be clear
- Sub-goals need to be obvious
- Live and learn : no need for "saving"
- Backwards Puzzles
- I forgot to pick it up
- Puzzles should advance the story
- Real time is bad drama
- Incremental reward
- Arbitrary puzzles
- Reward Intent
- Unconnected events
- Give the player options