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A gameplay element that tests the ingenuity of the player. It can have one or more logically-concluded solutions.

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I'm programming a basic puzzle game that will involve quite a few riddles. The player will be presented with a riddle and a textbox to put their answer in. The issue is that users can input whatever ...
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I'm making a classic Resident Evil / Silent Hill type game, so am currently in progress of writing a few puzzles. Currently, I have a combination lock - 4 digits 0-9. Each digit of the combination is ...
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I'm into the design of puzzle games lately (especially tile-matching games) and was trying to assess Candy Crush's gameplay. I'm a bit torn on how much success in the game depends on luck and how much ...
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I am currently working on a puzzle game where blocks drop and you match nearby colors Blocks are stored within a int 2D array that stores with a value between 1-3 once placed, and it should find ...
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Am working on an open 2D world, random-generated game where the player will over time find certain, (apparently)randomly placed locations. The player is guided through other means to those locations ...
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This is my first ever question here; I'm pretty stuck on a certain feature I'm working on in order to learn. I'm working in Unity 3D. I'm trying to make a set of buttons that work in unison to unlock ...
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Am facing a bit of a problem regarding the structure of a CSV file that will be used to generate levels in a match3 game, my in-engine data structure is the following: ...
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We're currently working on a game inspired by "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" for the gameplay and "Lifeline" for the narrative part. Our game is named "Are You There?"...
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Problem In my puzzle game, the player moves one step at a time on a hexagonal grid. (Not an action game.) The sequence of steps is important for the gameplay, so it is not only about getting from A ...
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I've recently finished a tutorial, UE4 Slide Puzzle by Nicholas Thompson. Halfway through the second tutorial, I found out that the blocks / tiles wouldn't respond to my clicks. For example, when I ...
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So I'm making my first build in Unreal 4 using Blueprint. The "game" calls for the player character to grab a particular object (a static mesh actor) and bring it close to a door that will ...
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I'm making a game with a primary mechanic of a very limited amount of time that you can see a maze, and must navigate it blindly as much as possible to conserve your torch fuel. It's possible you ...
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I'm trying to make the pulse system in a "build the pipeline" puzzle game to check if tiles are connected to the starting tile. There is a weird bug that prevents tiles on the right and tiles on the ...
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On the PuzzleScript home page, there is an example of an enemy (Eyeball) which, when you (Player) are directly in its line of ...
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I want to create a game where you walk around in 3D, and sometimes you can activate some kind of 2D puzzle. For example - you walk up to the door, and you can open it using lockpicks. The lockpick ...
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I am trying to write a solver for a sort of card game. I mainly do that for fun, and also to be able to learn a bit about the different types of algorithms I could use for this problem. The rules of ...
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I was researching different puzzle ideas and came across a game called Warframe that requires the player to hack a console to progress further into the level. The player has to spin around the ...
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I currently have a game concept similar to the mobile app Alphabetty where you are given a grid of letters and are tasked with spelling words. When you use a letter in a word, it disappears and new ...
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I've made a sort of a puzzle game where the goal is to get rid of all of the white tiles. You can try it at the end of the question. Each time, the board is randomly generated with white tiles in ...
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A while ago, I made a simple game that involved swapping birds to combine them and release them to create points. The idea is that eventually, the birds would get stuck and your game is over, but I ...
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I have picked this puzzle shown here as training in programming games. In these mazes you follow the arrows. From each arrow you can move to any of the arrows it's pointing to, in the same row, ...
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I'm currently working on a turn-by-turn puzzle stealth game (as a student group project), inspired by Tiny Heist. The basic mechanic is that every time the player moves a square / does a thing, every ...
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I am working on a match 3 game where the number of matched cells matters (if you match 3 then they just get removed, if you match exactly 4 then something happens, and if you match more than 4 ...
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I develop a (really) simple puzzle game that asks you to join a point A to a B (enter/exit) using a ball and mechanisms that you can rotate to give the correct direction to the ball in order to join ...
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Is it possible to create a random maze that is solvable and uses a group of cells or single cells that do not depend on the cells around them? I am using a visual language that uses self contained ...
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I want to create a puzzle game for my first year in college. I will use OpeGL and C++. The point of the game is to create a path between squares that have the same color, without making the paths ...
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Not sure if anyone has played Noodles at all https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/noodles!/id967624193?mt=8 but it is a simple puzzle game, that involves rotating tiles until they link up. The tiles are ...
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Good afternoon. Help me please to add the code for the game. This game is puzzle. Everything works good, but I would like to have not just ordinary puzzles with numbers, but also the puzzle with a ...
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I am making a puzzle game. The puzzle in question needs to be solved in advance, with the final solution being given as a series of commands which will instruct an object to navigate a maze. This ...
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We make educational games for school students, age 7-18; we can't have any violence or blood in them. I have scoured Google Play and YouTube for good examples of educational games. So far I found ...
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In a level based, puzzle-like, game, how can we prevent the gamers to be searching on the Internet for solutions to a specific level? I'd like to let players fairly compare their scores. I've thought ...
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Alright, we have a large set of possible moves (what the player is allowed to do). We also have a well defined state of success that defines the desired goal. We want to generate a configuration where ...
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When recently playing an adventure game (Dreamfall Chapters) it hit me that most adventure games I've played have had only a single solution to the "puzzles" they require you to solve. This frequently ...
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I am currently developing a Puzzle/RPG game which works a little bit like Minesweeper. You have a Field of Tiles and 2, 3 or 4 different colors from which you can choose. Now you have to uncover tiles ...
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So I am trying to create a shooting-ship-puzzle game at sea on gamemaker. There is a playership that must shoot the enemy ships using only the available "whirlpools". There are many whirlpools in the ...
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I'm working on an ARG which will be implemented mostly through a standard website. I'd like to give some of the images on the site steganographic content (hidden content stored in an image, e.g. an 8 ...
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I currently working on a small mobile game. Not a clone of TwoDots(!) but I need to recognize patterns like they do and I use the game as an example. How the game works? Players have to connect dots. ...
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Imagine a standard Tetris board (10x20) using the standard set of 7 tetrominoes. Given a Tetris game state and a target position, how can I find the optimal sequence of moves that will get the ...
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I'm thinking of making a puzzle game where the objective is to fill a grid with shaped puzzle pieces (for example, the classic Tetris shapes). How can I go about generating a set of pieces that can ...
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Say for instance I have a puzzle with 3 switches that need to be in some configuration (say all on) in one room, that opens a door in another, with a load screen separating, so I can't link the ...
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I have a task in hand about making a puzzle generator, that can fill a game board with colored pearls, that then needs to be solved by the player. The core rules are Pearls are placed in a grid, ...
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Taking Candy Crush as an example: In a Match-3 game, how would you figure out which nearby tiles are 1 move away from creating a match? Do you basically have to do it by trial-and-error on every ...
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I want to add animation to my game board when updating tile positions. I can start an animation at the right point, but there's a catch: When the translate animation starts, it seems like the ...
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This is clearly not a coding problem but the logical one. I am starting to learn how to make a match 3 game. but there is a question rising in my mind. when i will set goal to complete the level, how ...
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I've been encountering this design challenge making a few toys with Javascript (CreateJS, EaselJS) The scenario is that you've got some sort of puzzle game with a simple game model. For a simple case,...
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I'm working on a side scrolling game that has a number of timed puzzle elements. As a simple example: I have a number of moving platforms that have been setup to transition in a pattern. Ideally I'd ...
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I am working on a memory based matching puzzle game. For that I need to glow buttons in a sequence that's generated randomly. I am glowing the buttons by changing its background images. I'd like to ...
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I'm building a 2048 clone to sharpen my Libgdx skills, but I don't know how to ease a tiles between board locations. When I slide my finger, the tile moves rather swiftly. How I can make the movement ...
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I would like to create a game which consists of taking a random image, slicing it up into some number of pieces (according to a selected difficulty) and letting the player solve the puzzle. I've ...
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I try to create Puzzle JigSaw,and I want to display the selected piece on the first layer, the pieces that are on the original positions(solved) on the last layer and the others on the middle. I ...
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