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Capcom's 'Snake Hacking Puzzle + Third-Person Shooter' Experiment — Pragmata Reframes Non-Repetitive Combat Design
One article today. Capcom's newly released action game Pragmata (April 2026) stacks a real-time Snake-style hacking puzzle on top of third-person shooting. Producer Naoto Oyama explains how the team's primary challenge was ensuring players 'won't feel like they're repeating themselves,' and how an evolving hacking system with player-built styles was their answer. (Game Developer, April 14, 2026)
Puzzle-in-Combat Design and the Question Randomness Poses to Puzzle Design
Two pieces today. How Capcom's Pragmata integrates real-time Snake-style puzzles into third-person combat — and the design challenge of avoiding repetition (Game Developer, Alessandro Fillari, April 14, 2026). Then Mark Brown (GMTK) on the fundamental tension between randomness and puzzle design in Blue Prince: what happens when you have clue A but the house won't give you room B (GMTK Substack, May 8, 2025).