SERIES
Séries
8 feuilletons en cours et 7 dossiers thématiques. Les feuilletons sont triés par dernière mise à jour.
Feuilletons
Paper Digest
A serial that digests academic papers on puzzles and games into a form anyone can read.
DernierAhn et al.: Puzzle Difficulty Lives in Concepts, Not Looks — Fukai Reads
Puzzle Soundtracks
A serial devoted to puzzle game music. How do you design sound that never wears out, no matter how long it plays?
DernierBande originale : Human Resource Machine — le bureau silencieux, construit à partir d'un seul synthé
Design Roundup
Developer interviews, talks, postmortems — a serial that gathers and introduces conversations around puzzle design.
Dernier« Écrire les règles d'un puzzle comme des mathématiques » : une tentative de systématiser les règles des puzzles papier-crayon
The Designer's Philosophy
One puzzle designer per episode, read through their own words — searching for the consistent question behind each body of work.
DernierInside Jason Roberts's Philosophy — Turning the Space Outside the Frame into a Playground
Retro Revisited
Replaying classic puzzles with today's eyes — from Sokoban to Professor Layton, digging through the strata of eras.
DernierMini Metro (2013) — un plan de métro né d'un game jam de 48 heures
The Counter-Review
Rereading acclaimed classics through their negative reviews — testing the criticism buried under the praise.
DernierCounterpoint on Superliminal — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
Puzzle Incident History
A serial unearthing the moments puzzles stirred up society — from the 15-puzzle prize hoax to the birth of real escape games.
DernierTangram (Qi Qiao Ban) — Around 1810, Seven Pieces of Lies and Truth
The Nature of Play
A serial that dissects what makes things fun through philosophers' eyes — starting with Huizinga, pausing the making of games to ask what play is.
DernierLe jeu a-t-il un sens ? — Camus et la boucle de mort du roguelike
Dossiers thématiques
The Lineage of Meta-Puzzles
The lineage of games that turn rules themselves into something you operate on. How the idea of rewriting unfolded from Sokoban to Baba Is You.
Puzzles That Turn Looking into Play
A rare lineage where the act of looking is the progress. We read the design of observation puzzles through The Witness, Obra Dinn, and Lorelei.
The Design of Undo
A single rewind button reshapes the entire experience. Designs that forgive trials and designs that punish them.
Carving the Learning Curve
Where do you make the player stop, and where do you let them flow? From Baba's vertical wall to Cocoon's unbroken stream.
Recursive Puzzles
Boxes inside boxes, doors inside doors, worlds inside worlds. Games that translate recursion into puzzle mechanics.
Single-Verb Design
How deep can a single-verb game go? The lineage of Sokoban, Sausage Roll, and A Monster's Expedition.
Best of Puzzles
Annual and thematic roundups of recommended puzzle games — only the titles we can vouch for after playing them in depth.