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
Category: Unreal Engine 4
Custom themes
One of the strengths of working with data-driven systems is that it's very easy to tweak little things. For example, every aspect of the puzzle screen is easily modifiable. The colour of the grid, the type of cursor, the background, everything is tweakable with a parameter. Part of this can be found in the gameplay … Continue reading Custom themes
Faking it
However fine an engine Unreal Engine 4 is and however great its tools and visual scripting, there are definitely a few areas it doesn't quite measure up. One of those things is its not-supported-really-but-kinda-in-there Paper2D component, which Piczle Cross Adventure relies on quite heavily. Now of course I could (and perhaps should) be called foolhardy … Continue reading Faking it
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
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
Introducing Piczle Cross Adventure
It is a little know but perhaps somewhat interesting fact that before Score Studios was founded I was working on a picture crossword (nonogram, "picross") type game on my own. I simply love these kinds of puzzles, so more than anything it was a labour of love. Once Score Studios became a legal entity and … Continue reading Introducing Piczle Cross Adventure
