Word Puzzle Mashups
My friend Jason clued me in to this match-3 like word game that was featured by apple this week: W.E.L.D.E.R. Then a scant day later I stumbled onto an interview with Zach Gage, who recently launched...
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Pit Chess / Recent Addictions
On Friday, my game designer friend Patrick alerted me to a post over at Play This Thing about Pit Chess. You can play Pit Chess on Kongregate, and it’s essentially a cross between chess and Drop 7. In...
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TouchArcade and new Action Puzzle Games
Hot on the heels of my Action Puzzle slide deck, I saw a post yesterday on TouchArcade about Fluxe, a new app that bills itself as Action Puzzle, so I checked it out, and I’ve got to say that it’s well...
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Slydris – an enthusiastic endorsement
After all the posting I’ve done about Action Puzzle games lately, I would feel remiss if I didn’t write this post. Essentially, I finally picked up Slydris after it went Universal (it was iPad only at...
View ArticleDream of Pixels
I have been remis on here not writing about a game I got to help beta test called Dream of Pixels. It’s been available on the app store for exactly a week today, and has received some amazing reviews...
View ArticleiPad Game Recommendations
A friend of mine just picked up a new iPad, and he’s totally new to the world of iOS gaming. He wanted some recommendations, and I spent some time coming up with a list of what I’m playing regularly....
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Android Tetris Variants
I spent some time today searching for an android Tetris variant I had seen a long while back called Quantro. I couldn’t remember the name, and searching for Tetris in the Google Play store (for this...
View ArticlePuzzle Up, async tetromino action
I spent some time this morning writing up some feedback for a relatively new game in the app store that seemed at first like it would definitely be right up my alley. It’s called Puzzle Up, and is...
View ArticleGlobal Game Jam 2013 Board Games
Last year I spent a fairly significant amount of time going through all the games created for the Global Game Jam in the Board Game category. I then got about five of those games into a “playable”...
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Rymdkapsel review
So I was massively looking forward to the iOS release of Rymdkapsel. (Pictured above.) The game first came out on the PS Vita a while back, and I think I only heard about it when it was announced it...
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Chessrunner & more Chess Puzzle Games
Chessrunner Yesterday, my friend Lloyd linked me to Chessrunner (reddit thread), a web-based, chess-inspired endless runner in which you start with only a king, which you have to move forward on an...
View ArticleGame(s) of the Year
I’ve seen a few posts and tweets by game designers about their favorite games of the year. I thought I’d collect those and comment. (Maybe even compile my own list!) iOSGoTY: Helix, A Dark Room, Kero...
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Blop, a precursor to 1010! and Hex FRVR
Interested, as I am, in the family tree of puzzle games, when I wrote up my post about deconstructing Tetris, (the one where I go a bit into the mechanics of 1010! and Hex FRVR) I’d completely...
View ArticlePSVR – Impressions Slides
I presented this short talk at a MN VR & HCI meetup last night.
View ArticleNintendo Labo VR reviewed
As a VR developer, and self-professed Nintendo superfan, getting the Nintendo Labo VR kit was definitely a priority. I had the first couple of Labo kits, but I’ll be honest, I never even put together...
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