James grew up in the arcades of the 80s and has played games on everything from the Milton Bradley Microvision to the PlayStation 5. He worked in gaming retail during the PS1/PS2 eras, and even had a ...

I’ve played a lot of games in my life where my feelings could be summed up with “this is a good idea, but the execution is lacking.” Games that, on paper, sound great, but which can’t quite realise ...

Bitfield's Blockado series has already enjoyed success on Apple's iOS devices, but now the game is looking to take on Nintendo's DSiWare service with a little sliding-block puzzle action. And while ...

While puzzles can provide a dash of variety, developers must be careful not to make them too far removed from the rest of the game. Used properly, puzzles can enrich a game immeasurably, and few ...

It's been a bumper crop for smaller games this year--here are some of the best Nintendo’s mobile games have ranged from the simplified platforming of Super Mario Run to the light strategy gacha Fi… ...

This project includes the implementation for a sliding block puzzle, sample sliding block puzzles in *.txt format, and several algorithms for efficiently finding solutions to a generic puzzle. The ...

#What It Is --A sliding block puzzle is a type of puzzle that consists of a frame of square pieces in random order with one piece missing. --The objective is to arrange the pieces in a specific order ...

The Dutch government paid my way to Casual Connect Europe in Amsterdam. Our coverage remains objective. Gaming is an international language, and a good reminder of that comes from the experimental ...

There are some incredibly creative games in the App Store, but never did we think we’d live to see the day in which a cartoony sliding blocks puzzler is mashed together with the hyper-violent Friday ...

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