I just saw some games market research report about player habits and turns out everyone is just playing solitaire. Like 40% of the respondents play it daily. Minecraft? Fortnite? Pretty much any other game? Looking at 1-2%. Solitaire is winning. We must defeat solitaire.

Gumby screens that feel like Elden Ring @gumbyscreens.bsky.social

2 years ago: @stfj.net says puzzmo will never run minis 6 months ago: @orta.io and i brainstorm how i might design a mini that could change zach's mind today: @puzzmo.com's first mini join us for 30 days of minis that teach you how to solve crosswords. start here: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

We took a month-long break from making daily games to work on a multiplayer competitive word game. Just published a blog post about the design + dev process 👉 blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/0...

Did you know that cursor states stop working everywhere in Mac OS if Photoshop is open. Even if it's minimized or hidden. This has been a bug for decades. Why.

This monday we launched Circuits, designed by Jacob Land, on Puzzmo ( www.puzzmo.com/play/circuits/ ). Circuits is an amazing game that was first shared with me by Josh Wardle. As soon as I played it I knew that Puzzmo would be perfect to help get the news out about this incredible game.

To celebrate the launch of Circuits on Puzzmo we designed and shipped massively multiplayer live Circuits game called Circuits Royale! Play now: royale.circuitsgame.com

I've been prototyping a PVP dark fantasy sports auto-battler in my spare time. Inspired by Tecmo bowl, roguelikes, & Mechabellum. Finally in a playable state! Really different from everything I've made before but I'm pretty excited about it.

Solve tactical stepping puzzles in the beautiful, maze-like, hand-drawn world of Wilderplace! (70% off) thinkygames.com/game... 2/15

I remember when there was a bunch of hype about vector networks in Figma. Going to guess Figma now looks at this decision as a mistake. They are very annoying and buggy in Figma, and break SVG compatibility.

I'm going to get cancelled for this but I have to show you something. I complained to Copilot agent mode that debugging the backend in my multiplayer online game was too tedious and it just... build the entirety of a realtime dashboard for me.

The single player version of multiplayer competitive games needs to be more inspired by this

Rebus Schrödinger

store.steampowered.com/app/1769640/... My favorite find of the showcase so far: Wilderplace is equal parts compelling narative, confounding puzzle game and a just allround soothing and deeply relaxing experience. An absolute masterpiece.

The @puzzmo.com iPhone app is officially out! It has all the games and features you know and love plus so much more. Download it here: apps.apple.com/us/app/puzzm...

Anyone have experience incorporating cyclomatic complexity checking in their dev workflows? Especially curious about doing this in team environments. Does it end up being a waste of time?

Kinda feel like AI art discourse is a dumb and uninformed rehash of the post-modern movement against craft in art. which make the ideas and the work behind Stuckism relevant. Stuckists were into making human paintings in an art world that had moved past painting.

A few friends and I made an interesting strategy/puzzle/adventure prototype called SUB-SURFACE a few weekends ago, just put it up on itch: trashmoon.itch.io/subsurface

Join us in NYC for our second-ever Crossword Con on Friday, April 4! Crossword Con is for anyone with any level of interest in crosswords, and your ticket comes with a year of Puzzmo. Lots of the Puzzmo staff will be there and we'd love to meet you! 🚕 Get your ticket at www.crosswordcon.com

Trying to explain to my 2 year old the difference between a tunnel and going under a highway overpass and I’ve realized I don’t actually know what a tunnel is.

I’ve been interested in designing multiplayer competitive games lately but also want to make art that is expressive. Normally narrative is how I’d do this. Can multiplayer games express something without shoehorning a narrative layer? Does chess mean something different from StarCraft?

It would be kinda evil but if YouTube had a “pay 5 cents to skip this ad immediately” button I would click it all the time.

There are people out there spending years of their careers, building whole companies, around optimizing initial load time, and then all the work is used to power a site with an auto-playing video in header. This is the state of the web.

When writing game networking code what do you call the local player? Do I just need to be typing "client" constantly?

This new post office is looking really weird

Another four years of trying very hard to completely ignore the news.

What an inspiration. If his work is any evidence, he had a pretty good handle over death, if anyone was ready it was probably him.

Imagine an alternate history of technology where the first social network was one run by local governments for their constituents, and evolved from there. An extension of the post office or something. If this had happened in the 90s what do you think society would look like now.

I’m trying to remember the name of a game I played a few years ago. UI is a bunch of instruments you can tweak, which let you manipulate and navigate around a landscape represented by topography rendered with cool shaders. There are secret places to uncover. It’s open-ended and mysterious.

My favorite game release this year is Mechabellum. One odd thing: I listen to a lot of game podcasts - normally how I discover new games - and haven’t heard it mentioned. It is not a “cool” game but it’s impeccably designed and I can’t help but love it. It deserves recognition outside of its niche.

Some quick winter sale recommendations. I love every one of these games and totally recommend them. Wilderplace (6.39€), a beautiful puzzle game about discovery and exploration. Great for chilling during Christmas. store.steampowered.com/app/1769640/...

We've crunched the numbers, and it's time to highlight your most special Puzzmo stats... and to find out who you really are inside. Head over to www.puzzmo.com/today to see your #PuzzmoRapt: a year in review of Puzzmo puzzles made especially for you! And then come back here and share it with us!

The play picking and counter-picking system in Tecmo Bowl is brilliant. Why didn’t this have more influence of future sports games?

I finally got around to writing about this terrain renderer demo I started over a year ago on my blog. Read about my CSS and HTML crimes: trashmoon.com/blog/2024/te...

I tried to get my 2 year old to talk to chatGPT but he got sad and hugged our Google Nest and said “nooo this is my favorite robot!”.

Internet Science Guy @hankgreen.bsky.social stopped by Puzzmo to make a Bongo! See if you can guess what words he made the puzzle with, and check out good.store 🧑‍🔬 www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2024-...

I get unreasonably angry about the AI art discourse for different reason than most people. It is taking place among people who are not good at seeing. But the left image is OBVIOUSLY not "a painting made by one of history's greatest artists". - Cliché - Predictable colors - No brush strokes

We just released a new game, it's good. Tons of people contributed to it. But the gradients... were my idea.

You have a time machine that will take you to 2004. You can bring only 3 jpegs with you. What are you bringing?

tortoise

goat man

sage

shaman

harpy

swamp lich

tree man

demon sarcophagus

skeleton

wizard

super mario