Posts tagged Puzzle games
5 posts about Puzzle games from Another dev blog by UYLLII: making and publishing free Android games, newest first.
- Engineering
My puzzle game used more battery than YouTube: an idle screen should draw zero frames
Moonlit Garden drained 7% battery in 38 minutes. Endless CSS animations on blurred layers and an AudioContext that never slept. How I measured and fixed every game.
- Game design
Minesweeper Rogue: a no-guess minesweeper roguelike where the rules change what numbers mean
Designing Minesweeper Rogue: tunnels, stacking rules like liar and knight numbers, a solver that keeps every level no-guess, fuses that count digs, and phone-only bugs.
- Postmortems
Sovereign postmortem: a paid ads test, a polished game, and 44 cents
I launched my most polished game with A$200 of Google Ads as a test. It earned A$0.44. The numbers, the four mistakes, and why I'm done paying for installs.
- Game design
Sovereign: building a polished no-guess Queens puzzle, and launching it with a paid ads test
How Sovereign generates Queens logic puzzles that never need a guess, its six modes and async replay races, and why its launch is a deliberate paid-ads experiment.
- Engineering
No-guess Minesweeper: generating boards you can always solve by logic
How the Minesweeper app builds no-guess boards with a logic solver, why the first dig is always safe, and why a second-chance rewarded ad suits the genre.
