Chapter 12. Puzzle Design
Puzzles are an important part of many digital games as well as an interesting design challenge in their own right. This chapter starts by exploring puzzle design through the eyes of one of the greatest living puzzle designers, Scott Kim.
The latter part of the chapter explores various types of puzzles that are common in modern games, some of which might not be what you would expect.
Puzzles Are Almost Everywhere
As you’ll learn through this chapter, most single-player games have some sort of puzzle in them. However, multiplayer games often do not. The primary reason for this is that both single-player games and puzzles rely on the game system to provide challenge to the player, where multiplayer digital games (that ...
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