Aside from character dialogues Piczle Cross Adventure also features some basic in-game messaging. In Piczle Colors some information was broadcast to the player through a fake Twitter-style social media post pop-up. When the player reached a milestone, unlocked a level, earned a trophy or anything like that, one of the game's characters would "tweet" at … Continue reading Blueprints: In-game messaging
Category: Game design
Interactive tutorial
If I know something about tutorials it is, frankly, that I dislike them. Quite a bit. As a player having to follow a tutorial, as well as as a developer actually creating a tutorial, both of these are onerous and annoying. However, when dealing with logic-puzzles that often have very specific rules there sadly isn't … Continue reading Interactive tutorial
Piczle Colors post-mortem
Something slightly different for this week's devblog, but that has a bearing on the development of Piczle Cross Adventure nonetheless: I thought I'd look back on the development of Piczle Colors and write down some of the lessons learned and observations made. Piczle Colors is currently available from the Nintendo Switch eShop world-wide and as … Continue reading Piczle Colors post-mortem
Adventure time!
The base of Piczle Cross Adventure is the nonogram puzzling. It's what the player will be doing most of. But what exactly is the "adventure" part of the title? What elements am I using to underpin the logic-puzzling gameplay? Piczle Cross Adventure will have an actual story that is more fleshed out than "even" Piczle … Continue reading Adventure time!
Creating the Piczle Cross puzzles
One question people might want answered is "how many puzzles will Piczle Cross Adventure have?" and the answer is, at this stage... I'm not sure. The game's initial design aimed at a minimum of 150, but because I spent some time building data-driven systems to handle the puzzles it is child's play to add more … Continue reading Creating the Piczle Cross puzzles
More than just a logic-puzzle
From the very first game the Piczle series has been about adding some game-y-ness to the logic-puzzle formula. Even though most logic-puzzles in and of themselves appeal to puzzle fanatics, I truly believe that adding an extra layer or two on top of them can enhance the experience. The problem with a lot of game … Continue reading More than just a logic-puzzle
Feature rich design
The best thing about the simplicity of Unreal Engine 4, as well as some intensive planning, means that Piczle Cross Adventures has a slew of options to cater the logic-puzzle game play to your exact liking. Game options Obviously the usual music and sound effect toggles are present. This is a given for any game … Continue reading Feature rich design
