How Our New Game, Pips, Is Made

To create Pips, I draw on both my childhood memories of those dominoes- and tile-based games and my professional work in puzzles. My Pips puzzle-making process is very analog. I have a set of dominoes ...
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How To Play 'Pips': Puzzle Editor Reveals 3 Tips for the New Daily NYT Game

"For each puzzle, solvers arrange dominoes to fill a board, meeting certain conditions based on dot sums, parity or similarity." And it's a totally different style game from their other popular daily ...
Polygon

7 tips from puzzle game developers on how to beat puzzle games

The puzzles of Blue Prince feel less like the gridlike blueprints you draft in the game and more like an intricate web. Even seasoned puzzle lovers might feel tested by its mysteries. In Blue Prince, ...
PC Gamer

One of the best puzzle game designers is back with Kaizen: A Factory Story, a game about manufacturing Japanese consumer goods during the largest economic bubble in history

From the release of SpaceChem in 2011 through to Last Call BBS in 2022, indie developer Zachtronics was a legend in the admittedly small world of puzzle games that are a bit like programming a ...