arcaneworks

Indie developers of The Puzzle Maker: Cebba's Odyssey
Creating handcrafted puzzles the ol' fashioned way in @gamemakerengine

[arcaneworks @arcaneworks]

🚨THE PUZZLE MAKER IS NOW AVAILABLE🚨
Get 15% off ($10.19) for the first week!
Likes and RTs appreciated!

🧩Solve 200 fantastical puzzles

👹Harness the power of monsters

✍️Create and share your own puzzles

#indiegame

[arcaneworks @arcaneworks]

I really want to write a recap of all the games that I played in the last year and during paternity leave. I played a ton of stuff both vintage and modern. Inscryption, Majora's Mask, Hollow Knight, Tears of the Kingdom, Fantasy Life, DK Bananza, Death Stranding 2 are just a few

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Mewgenics is the game of the year and cracks my top 10 favorite games. I’m 95% done and have put over 100 hours into it, but I still hunger for more. Such a splendid mix of creative solutions, genuine surprises, and deep rpg mechanics. It’s a dream game for tactics enjoyers!

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Releasing a game is very difficult, and we've made many discouraging mistakes in the process. But I love developing games and will continue to do it. I have so many ideas that I'd like to iterate on from the base mechanics of Puzzle Maker. Please continue to follow us, thank you!

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Hello everyone! This is Matt, the director of Puzzle Maker. I've been absent for a long time due to family obligations, but I'm back in dev mode! We've changed our handle to our company name -- arcaneworks -- so we can post about everything we're working on (cont.)

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WE'RE IN! The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase is live on Steam and you can grab The Puzzle Maker at the lowest price yet! Get 30% off ($8.39) when you buy within the next week. Go pick it up while you still have the chance!
#indiegames #puzzles

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@DevLand95213410 We have our game running smoothly in Proton with no reported issues from our handful of Steam Deck users. It seems like if you aren't using one of the kernel level anti-cheats, Proton does a great job.

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We're wrapping up solution videos for all 200 levels of Cebba's Odyssey! Keep an eye out for some exciting new game content shortly 👀.
#indiegame #indiedev #pixelart

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Is there anything more satisfying than an explosive chain reaction?
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A lot of the time, we wind up using material from the earlier levels for promo... As a change of pace, here's the final level in Cebba's Odyssey. Only a few people have managed to beat it and claim the title of Puzzle Maker for themselves... Do you have what it takes?
#screenshotsaturday #indiegames #gamedev

[arcaneworks @arcaneworks]

We ran into this big-time when we were doing testing early on. A tactics puzzle game is a bit different to balance, but we wound up creating three optional layers of assistance. There's an initial clue that can be set to hidden by default, then there's a hint that becomes available after a certain number of undos, and finally there's an option to skip the level and come back to it later.

Of course, this is fairly case specific to making a puzzle game, but I think the underlying concept of providing optionality to the players is relevant to most genres. Balancing difficulty really is... well, difficult.

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my indie game for 15 seconds

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my indie game for 15 seconds

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We're thrilled to be mentioned on @tripleclickpod for a second week in a row (even if it is due to our clunky name...)! The word is spreading that Cebba's Odyssey kicks ass! head over to Steam and try the demo now. 🔗is in the bio!
#IndieGame #puzzle #TurnBasedThursday

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Ah, well.... I actually meant to do that. He seemed cold.
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Sacrificing dozens of innocent units to the puzzle gods on this sacred #NationalPuzzleDay. Please join us so as not to provoke their terrible wrath.

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It's #NationalPuzzleDay and no one told us?? We're THE Puzzle Maker! Check us out on Steam now for the best consumer software puzzle experience on the market!

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We're in the process of making solution videos for all of our puzzles... They're not all done yet, but here's the first one, as a treat. We will be posting all of them in our discord server over the next week or two, so join up now! https://t.co/Ij2Oeb2jo9
#IndieGameDev #indiegame #pixelart

[arcaneworks @arcaneworks]

@DevLand95213410 The Puzzle Maker: Cebba's Odyssey is a grid-based tactics puzzle game inspired by Into The Breach. We were recently featured in Jason Schreier's weekly Bloomberg column, and our demo is playable on Steam! link is in the bio
#indiegames #wishlistwednesday

[Video Game History @VideoGameHstry]

What's the first video game you think of when you see the Lucas Arts logo?

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Is that good?
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