Here’s a video of YouTuber Chris Ramsay solving a specially-made puzzle box in real time, leading to a teaser for a new project. https://youtu.be/1AFYEp3UXEY
I tend to be skeptical of “new” games for having much staying power after the novelty wears off, but Knotwords (basically a mashup of crosswords and sudoku) has a really neat and satisfying pacing and game loop. Each puzzle is slow and baffling at the start, and then just snowballs as words get filled in one after the next.
Interesting (?) find from last night’s purge: the Sony Clie, their Palm Pilot device that I’d completely forgotten that I ever had. It was pretty neat and had a lot of the same “design language” as their personal audio players, but was doomed to obscurity next to the Handspring Treo and then, of course, the iPhone. (I would’ve kept this for novelty value, but the battery had expanded and burst through its casing).
This ridiculous game “A Joke Worth $0.99” is my favorite thing on the Playdate and pretty much nailed the spirit of the device entirely and brilliantly.
(Not being fully aware of where your toots are going is another side effect of being middle aged)
Occasional video game developer. 🏳️🌈
Most recently made Sasquatchers for Panic’s Playdate season one.
Formerly at Telltale Games on the Sam & Max, Strong Bad, and a li’l bit of the Walking Dead series; Maxis on SimCity 4; LucasArts on The Curse of Monkey Island; and Walt Disney Imagineering on interactive games in the theme parks.