@@zane49er51 these devs also made Prismata and while it's almost dead the servers are still alive, and I bet an offline version is easy to implement for both games
@@zane49er51 They've just made an update that these Octobers the servers will be shut down. There's still the offline mode, although I didn't manage to run it on my laptop.
8:00 no way you made that puzzle i had so much trouble with it, because i did the glass level as like my second location i got stuck really fast on it, i did get it after way too long though
nice you're the one that made Meniscus, I remember absolutely fucking loving that puzzle, you did an amazing job on it both solutions are absolutely brilliant
I didn't realize this was by Elyot! I saw the original trailer for it when he posted it in the Prismata discord, but didn't realize the clips I was seeing in your Discord were of the same game. I really hope he will have a chance to create a game more inline with his original vision, assuming he still wants that - a competitive 3d puzzler sounds incredible
it's been really great to follow Elyot's stuff through Prismata/JIS/now this, but yeah, it's funny how the trailer ended up giving a certain vibe to the game and experiencing how different those areas really were. and totally agree about still wanting that original vision, but I kinda have the feeling if it even happens as a different game it's going to have to not share a lot mechanicswise with this game lol
These puzzles are all great. Excellent job! One thing I noticed in the "Plants" puzzle is that the 7 tiles along the top starting from the right should be Black to account for the next 8 "plant" growing off screen lmao
8:00 Even after 100% completing almost every enclave, I still remember that puzzle. I don't think I ever figured out what the trick was for that one, I only got through it with copious use of foresight.
yeah I do think pattern grids would have been nicer if they had like, specially crafted descriptions and stuff, but that ends up being more translation work and stuff lol
@@IcelyPuzzles Yeah, I got to this and just had to wait for Foresight to solve this for me. Brother, this was the most unclear puzzle. You explained it, and now I feel like an idiot for not putting it together. Chess Battle Advance? More like Can't Be Assed to be smart enough to figure that one out. Devilish, sir.
Its such a nice surprise discovering that you worked on this game. You are a great puzzle youtuber and now we know you are also a great puzzle creator. You deserve all the best.
7:58 Me and my friend spammed hints to solve this puzzle and still couldn't see how the solution worked. I can't believe you made that puzzle and after seeing this video I don't even blame you for why the puzzle just isn't intuitive at all. (I had no idea the locked squares could also be multiblocks. They really should make that more visible). I now appreciate the solution to that puzzle XD
Damn that one you labelled your best puzzle. Your not wrong like i went through most of the solution myself in my head as i watched it and was like thats a very good puzzle and then when you said it could be done with reverse numbers i was like what the hell.
This was a really fun watch, it's surprising how many of the grid puzzles you made for the game as they were also by far my favourite puzzle type offered as they ranged from being extremely intuitive and satisfying to solve to what felt like easter egg hunts that'd give me a laugh after finding the solution for, and I also agree that I hoped that the other types of puzzles offered were more consistently as fun as them. Glad your channel is doing so well now as they way your videos have been structured has changed so much over the years and it seems like you've got something that works really well for you now (and hopefully is enjoyable for you to make as well). Sort of miss watching your older videos now and then, but I completely understand you privating/deleting stuff that isn't on theme with what you do anymore. chess battle advanced
i can't remember any old videos I have privated or deleted, especially not ones for being on-theme, though I have privated an entire game due to not liking its skill-floor design issues and whatever, and sometimes I wish roguelike content did better for me, but yeah lol, thank you, there's something nice to see about figuring out an uncut playthrough but it's so much nicer now to cut a 20 minute solve down I think :)
@@IcelyPuzzles I meant removing stuff from your other channel main_gi, but I guess you haven't removed much of anything from this channel. Your longer form puzzle and roguelite videos were fun listens as well, good luck on your future videos man :)
42:47 I think the questions/issues with always online would halve if the servers were designed to handle the load. At the launch the servers were absolute dogwater, constant rubberbanding and random tps, the friend and party system had no purpose and doesnt even work. Currently servers got better, but last time i played the party system still didnt work and servers still had some issues. Always online feels like something forced with no purpose, even if it's remnants of a potentially cool mechanic. Or it's another attempt to "protect" the product from piracy costing the performance and overall user experience, like denuvo. Which is a fairly good way, but like with denuvo there will be a crazy human somewhere out there that will embed a local server into the package and just connect client to it
33:08 - oooh this should've come in pairs. somewhere where you can see a sort of a mirror, it'd be broken but the puzzles would be "reflecting" like one in each side. then you solve one and realize the other is a different one, and then you see they're the same but the clues are flipped and that would've been so beautiful.
i JUST saw this video, i've been watching puzzle youtube for a while and found IOI via tyler and LOVE THE GAME, didnt know you've made a load of puzzles in there
I jut got recommended and am loving this channel, i dont play a tonne of puzzle hames cause im not smart enough for baba is you etc. but i played ioi, and some of these puzzles you worked on were AMAZING moments for me! Cool to see
I was able to solve That One Pattern by myself. I hate to say it (I really don't), but that was one of my favorite puzzles in the game! I had to leave and come back to it repeatedly over about half an hour and then felt super clever when I realized what it was doing.
This and taiji? 750 puzzles in ioi ? I’ve been watching you here and there but I never knew you made games somehow. Also islands of insight is the best game I’ve seen in a long time. I think it’s a slow burn kind of game that will be solidified with time. I know the numbers ain’t great but it’s a puzzle game and those always require a foot in the door for the players to get hooked.
You wrote a *fifth* of the grid puzzles? You absolute mad lad, I'm pre-ordering your productivity book. And they're good puzzles too. I can't help but feel a lot of good work and effort is hamstrung by platform choices. Most forms of puzzles would just make more sense on touch screens. Failing that, running on a laptop with hidden object games specs just multiplies your addressable market to a scale that applies to few other genres. That video of CtC in the glass maze should be mandatory viewing for game devs, reminding them that you are not your audience. And I still don't know why the ticking clock of always online is there. I don't understand why there are cosmetic gloves but not backgrounds, palettes, cursors or texture packs; a player will at least see the latter. I also feel the game needlessly antagonizes a lot of audiences that not fluent in a major language. A lot of the game text could have been sketches and GIFs, and it would even increase info retention for native speakers. There's a lot of care and elegance put in a lot of small and silly things, you can feel the love there, and this just makes the places it goes astray bewildering.
This is super nice to see you got to do something like that! Can't actually watch the vid though since I'm playing the game, I'd rather not know the solution in advance!
I get you, I usually do the same... but this game boasts about having thousands of puzzles, even if this video covered a hundred of then it would still be fewer than 1%. I think you're safe watching it 😁
@@NonisLuck I'm trying to get them all, so I'd rather not! While those in the "overworld" are randomised, those in enclaves are not, so if he made one of those I'd be bound to encounter it.
Meniscus gave me a lot of trouble; the mystery was worded in a way that made it sound like I had to treat the numbers as being one-off as well. The puzzle box is pretty cool, though. I definitely agree that some of the other puzzle types could have been given more depth, but overall the game is still really good.
Can't believe you worked on this game and taiji! I'm halfway through it and I'm loving it, I vividly remember the puzzle at 8:00, it was my favourite of that enclave! Also, the pillar Taiji puzzle you gave the base idea for was a great one. But I do have one question, I've been trying to get into playtesting puzzle games (started with a small one where I knew the developer and another one with a dev still small, but that had already made a bit more well-known puzzle games) and I was wondering if you had any advice on where to search for more puzzle games to playtest, because I'm really loving it! Advice on how to be a better playtester from your experience would be nice too, but I don't wanna be asking too much so if you answered my first question only it would already be great!
there is a 'puzzlevideogames' community, and also you can find games that are about to release on Steam Next Fest (who tend to have demos up and maybe a small discord server to join), or give feedback to developers on itchio finding cheese is cool, have the mouse cursor shown if you can. Another thing that's very different about producing content and testing is that I think developers would prefer a mostly uncut recording even if it means lots of repetitive footage, I believe they will know to skim through it if it's too repetitive. making guest puzzles is also a good way to improve your own puzzlecreating skills and leverage past guest puzzle experience for future developers you ask, like I did with this game :)
I've been playing through Islands of Insight and the glass temple puzzle is the only puzzle I hadn't been able to get through and had to use foresight on. I'm glad I know the solution now 😂
spoiler for 39:45 even if it's just a guess I'm guessing you need to dictate the rules in each mini-board. Next to the 3 white cells or 4 black cells is a cell that says if you need to follow that rule. Black means yes, white means no. Solve everything else from there.
since you're roped in the development of the game, do you think there's a chance the game will come to ps5? i loved playing the open playtest but had major performance issues since i played in a very low-end laptop, but was able to play another game that i had a similar issue with(the talos principle 2) on ps5 through remote play
This game looks so interesting and promising, which is absolutely tragic since there's a 99% chance that the servers shut down and nobody can ever play it again. I refuse to let myself get attached to something with such a disappointing shelf-life. If the developers can eventually remove the always-online thing (since it's just a leftover) then I would be willing to give this game a shot.
the director of this game has expressed not wanting to allow the game to get shut down in such a way that years worth of work will be unplayable. I get the situation is different since the guy has a publisher in the loop (so not-100% control) but the previous game, Prismata, was a game that also unfortunately didn't find a big audience (only a small dedicated group of big fans) and I saw the director made sure to keep the servers alive even throughout AWS issues and while working on this project. I do also get that the "team looking for new work" does potentially imply and leave the option open though, I wish it was more clear what was actually being stopped. but keeping servers alive just (subjectively, I dunno the values myself) should be much less than paying a team of 20 salaries for continued work. But yeah there have been talks about having an offline mode. To me that would still be a sad ending instead of implementing some competitive or leaderboard feature to try to wrangle this game to multiplayer but it is sad that the launch window opportunity is kind of past that.
3:20 From here, you can notice that there’s already a four-in-a-row threat in the fourth column, which means that the section above it must be black. Edit: Oh, it was mentioned right after I commented at 3:41…LOL!!!
what software do you use to do real time effects on your recording? like the blue cursed screen or the region highlights? seems pretty useful and versatile
Oh wow, didn't know you made that puzzle at 7:55 that was so difficult as I just really don't see the line seperator (and the small yellow x really doesn't help). So I view the the black as whole section rather than individual section. I didn't get it until I saw a post in discussion thread about it Edit after watching the whole video: I still think going multiplayer is bad idea. In general puzzle games has much smaller audience. Even if there are competitive elements, at its core it is still a puzzle game. I don't think it would attract wide audience just because there are competitive aspect in game. And hosting online game is expensive too, if it didn't do well, there is chance of constantly losing money with server cost. Realiscaly they should have at least start as single player game and maybe if it is sale well, then add the multiple player aspect
puzzle games do have a rep of being niche yeah. it's weird though, cause some puzzle games are able to really break that 'niche' barrier, baba/portal/witness/supraland have tons of reviews and the very start of IOI it was pitched as being potentially able to pick up these kinds of players and retain them. so I personally feel it should have been truly multiplayer from the start, it's also harder to suddenly program multiplayer into the game afterwards i think. "multiplayer puzzle game" is at least a unique genre (both to pitch potential investors and for players), instead of "another great singleplayer puzzle game"
a story about my uncle had some cool atmospheres so I have a fond time with that game, it's funny you mention it's a b-roll game because I've never seen it used as a surfing b-roll but it definitely fits lol
Where'd you learn to design puzzles with unique logic? I'd love to design puzzles with those eureka moments. I want to develop my own puzzle games but I can't see myself being able to create enough good puzzles for one of them.
On Cracking the Cryptic's UA-cam channel they have a couple of videos where Sudoku constructors talk about how they set a certain puzzle. Most of the time you need to have the Eureka moment yourself in order to put it in a puzzle
for specific moments, you can often start the puzzle by building around that interaction, and then what remains afterwards if it doesn't fill the rest of the grid you can add more clues and symbols, it's also possible to cut off the grid with a 'null' cell or adjust the size to remove those ambiguous cells entirely, and you end up with a unique solution
I recommend you learn python and use CPMpy. It's a solver for logical puzzles. you tell it the constraints and it will figure out the answers and total number of possible solutions to these kinds of puzzles. With it you can then quickly prototype new rules and constraints in puzzles. Also create a quick UI for it.
Considering you worked on it, how do you feel about the lack of success it had? Personally I find it unfortunate, as it is a great and fun game, but some decisions made were a bit questionable... So I wasn't surprised... Still, hope the game will one day still get the treatment it deserves.
I was very excited for the game and recently tried the demo, but it just didn't click with me. I think that I would 100% buy the game if it was just a level select into the logic grids and no more than that.
3:21 R2C4 is black to prevent a white four in a row. Sorry for being one of those people, I’m sure somebody pointed out already but I couldn’t help myself 😛
Btw I haven’t played Islands yet (I wish to eventually), but is there a way to also contribute puzzles to the game for DLCs or something? I don’t imagine there is, but I’m asking just in case.
Great work! Was already suspecting something fishy from watching tyler solve all the grid+letter puzzles lol Wish i could actually buy the game though but russia is banned from purchasing this =/ ...Which was weird to learn since the pre-release playtesting *was* allowed in here
Seeing Simon from Cracking the Cryptic say "Chess Battle Advance" feels more cursed than anything else I've seen on this channel.
I made the mistake of eating when that clip was playing.
i am on a mission to get every puzzle youtuber to say chess battle advanced
A noble mission indeed. We got Aliensrock and CtC, who's next?@@IcelyPuzzles
@@IcelyPuzzles Bro realy made 750 puzzles just to be able to have a CBA button in the game
@@AsiccAPMaybe RCE
it's nice to know that when Aliensrock obliterates every logic grid he's also completing yours
7:22 “Where you have to make a circle here” *proceeds to make the squarest of squares*
i played Crayon Computer, I don't know the difference
@@IcelyPuzzles logical conclusion
what the hell, you actually worked on this??
Honestly having puzzles in a game as big as this must feel amazing, congrats!
your channel would be remembered famously because CBA memes in this game
Unfortunately this game is always-online so there's a good chance it will be lost forever and not remembered
@zane49er51 there's a chance that when the servers are nearing shutting down they could update the game to be offline with some tweaks
@@enderguardian7443when was the last time they did
@@zane49er51 these devs also made Prismata and while it's almost dead the servers are still alive, and I bet an offline version is easy to implement for both games
@@zane49er51 They've just made an update that these Octobers the servers will be shut down. There's still the offline mode, although I didn't manage to run it on my laptop.
8:00 no way you made that puzzle i had so much trouble with it, because i did the glass level as like my second location i got stuck really fast on it, i did get it after way too long though
nice you're the one that made Meniscus, I remember absolutely fucking loving that puzzle, you did an amazing job on it both solutions are absolutely brilliant
thank you :)
I didn't realize this was by Elyot! I saw the original trailer for it when he posted it in the Prismata discord, but didn't realize the clips I was seeing in your Discord were of the same game.
I really hope he will have a chance to create a game more inline with his original vision, assuming he still wants that - a competitive 3d puzzler sounds incredible
it's been really great to follow Elyot's stuff through Prismata/JIS/now this, but yeah, it's funny how the trailer ended up giving a certain vibe to the game and experiencing how different those areas really were. and totally agree about still wanting that original vision, but I kinda have the feeling if it even happens as a different game it's going to have to not share a lot mechanicswise with this game lol
Wow, cool to see you worked on this! I had my suspicions whenever CBA showed up...
I just started playing this game and I had no idea that you worked on this! Great job!
Also your username in the game lol.
oh my god aliensrock mentions icely this is insane to me i have actually watched you grow so much lmao
icely you aliensrock, Continue Being Awesome!
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Continue being awesome = cba = chess battle advanced
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I feel the same bro, chess battle advanced
These puzzles are all great. Excellent job!
One thing I noticed in the "Plants" puzzle is that the 7 tiles along the top starting from the right should be Black to account for the next 8 "plant" growing off screen lmao
8:00 Even after 100% completing almost every enclave, I still remember that puzzle. I don't think I ever figured out what the trick was for that one, I only got through it with copious use of foresight.
yeah I do think pattern grids would have been nicer if they had like, specially crafted descriptions and stuff, but that ends up being more translation work and stuff lol
@@IcelyPuzzles Yeah, I got to this and just had to wait for Foresight to solve this for me. Brother, this was the most unclear puzzle. You explained it, and now I feel like an idiot for not putting it together. Chess Battle Advance? More like Can't Be Assed to be smart enough to figure that one out. Devilish, sir.
Its such a nice surprise discovering that you worked on this game. You are a great puzzle youtuber and now we know you are also a great puzzle creator. You deserve all the best.
thank you
7:58 Me and my friend spammed hints to solve this puzzle and still couldn't see how the solution worked. I can't believe you made that puzzle and after seeing this video I don't even blame you for why the puzzle just isn't intuitive at all. (I had no idea the locked squares could also be multiblocks. They really should make that more visible). I now appreciate the solution to that puzzle XD
Damn that one you labelled your best puzzle. Your not wrong like i went through most of the solution myself in my head as i watched it and was like thats a very good puzzle and then when you said it could be done with reverse numbers i was like what the hell.
12:44 “And if you can’t seduce…”
AYOO!
Remember kids, since Icely worked on the game we can blame him for literally every bad puzzle, even if he never even worked with that puzzle type
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This was a really fun watch, it's surprising how many of the grid puzzles you made for the game as they were also by far my favourite puzzle type offered as they ranged from being extremely intuitive and satisfying to solve to what felt like easter egg hunts that'd give me a laugh after finding the solution for, and I also agree that I hoped that the other types of puzzles offered were more consistently as fun as them. Glad your channel is doing so well now as they way your videos have been structured has changed so much over the years and it seems like you've got something that works really well for you now (and hopefully is enjoyable for you to make as well). Sort of miss watching your older videos now and then, but I completely understand you privating/deleting stuff that isn't on theme with what you do anymore.
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i can't remember any old videos I have privated or deleted, especially not ones for being on-theme, though I have privated an entire game due to not liking its skill-floor design issues and whatever, and sometimes I wish roguelike content did better for me, but yeah lol, thank you, there's something nice to see about figuring out an uncut playthrough but it's so much nicer now to cut a 20 minute solve down I think :)
@@IcelyPuzzles I meant removing stuff from your other channel main_gi, but I guess you haven't removed much of anything from this channel. Your longer form puzzle and roguelite videos were fun listens as well, good luck on your future videos man :)
39:28 Nice puzzle, I'm quite familiar with ying yang from CTC.
The part where black has to go through the bottom is quite tricky
42:47 I think the questions/issues with always online would halve if the servers were designed to handle the load. At the launch the servers were absolute dogwater, constant rubberbanding and random tps, the friend and party system had no purpose and doesnt even work. Currently servers got better, but last time i played the party system still didnt work and servers still had some issues. Always online feels like something forced with no purpose, even if it's remnants of a potentially cool mechanic. Or it's another attempt to "protect" the product from piracy costing the performance and overall user experience, like denuvo. Which is a fairly good way, but like with denuvo there will be a crazy human somewhere out there that will embed a local server into the package and just connect client to it
33:08 - oooh this should've come in pairs. somewhere where you can see a sort of a mirror, it'd be broken but the puzzles would be "reflecting" like one in each side.
then you solve one and realize the other is a different one, and then you see they're the same but the clues are flipped and that would've been so beautiful.
i JUST saw this video, i've been watching puzzle youtube for a while and found IOI via tyler and LOVE THE GAME, didnt know you've made a load of puzzles in there
41:17 - Seeing this and hearing his cackle makes me think this man is responsible for the trickster island xD
I jut got recommended and am loving this channel, i dont play a tonne of puzzle hames cause im not smart enough for baba is you etc. but i played ioi, and some of these puzzles you worked on were AMAZING moments for me! Cool to see
Fully agree underclued grids were so satisfying
I was able to solve That One Pattern by myself. I hate to say it (I really don't), but that was one of my favorite puzzles in the game! I had to leave and come back to it repeatedly over about half an hour and then felt super clever when I realized what it was doing.
20:43 Simon is gonna love the return of cave sudoku
This and taiji? 750 puzzles in ioi ? I’ve been watching you here and there but I never knew you made games somehow. Also islands of insight is the best game I’ve seen in a long time. I think it’s a slow burn kind of game that will be solidified with time. I know the numbers ain’t great but it’s a puzzle game and those always require a foot in the door for the players to get hooked.
You wrote a *fifth* of the grid puzzles? You absolute mad lad, I'm pre-ordering your productivity book. And they're good puzzles too.
I can't help but feel a lot of good work and effort is hamstrung by platform choices. Most forms of puzzles would just make more sense on touch screens. Failing that, running on a laptop with hidden object games specs just multiplies your addressable market to a scale that applies to few other genres. That video of CtC in the glass maze should be mandatory viewing for game devs, reminding them that you are not your audience.
And I still don't know why the ticking clock of always online is there. I don't understand why there are cosmetic gloves but not backgrounds, palettes, cursors or texture packs; a player will at least see the latter. I also feel the game needlessly antagonizes a lot of audiences that not fluent in a major language. A lot of the game text could have been sketches and GIFs, and it would even increase info retention for native speakers.
There's a lot of care and elegance put in a lot of small and silly things, you can feel the love there, and this just makes the places it goes astray bewildering.
as he said in the video, the original idea for this game was more competitive.being online is pretty much just a remnant of that
Productivity book?
My honest reaction to you making 750 out of the 4000 (INSANE NUMBERS) logic grid puzzles was just simply :0
This is super nice to see you got to do something like that! Can't actually watch the vid though since I'm playing the game, I'd rather not know the solution in advance!
I get you, I usually do the same... but this game boasts about having thousands of puzzles, even if this video covered a hundred of then it would still be fewer than 1%. I think you're safe watching it 😁
@@NonisLuck I'm trying to get them all, so I'd rather not! While those in the "overworld" are randomised, those in enclaves are not, so if he made one of those I'd be bound to encounter it.
Meniscus gave me a lot of trouble; the mystery was worded in a way that made it sound like I had to treat the numbers as being one-off as well. The puzzle box is pretty cool, though.
I definitely agree that some of the other puzzle types could have been given more depth, but overall the game is still really good.
Can't believe you worked on this game and taiji! I'm halfway through it and I'm loving it, I vividly remember the puzzle at 8:00, it was my favourite of that enclave! Also, the pillar Taiji puzzle you gave the base idea for was a great one.
But I do have one question, I've been trying to get into playtesting puzzle games (started with a small one where I knew the developer and another one with a dev still small, but that had already made a bit more well-known puzzle games) and I was wondering if you had any advice on where to search for more puzzle games to playtest, because I'm really loving it!
Advice on how to be a better playtester from your experience would be nice too, but I don't wanna be asking too much so if you answered my first question only it would already be great!
there is a 'puzzlevideogames' community, and also you can find games that are about to release on Steam Next Fest (who tend to have demos up and maybe a small discord server to join), or give feedback to developers on itchio
finding cheese is cool, have the mouse cursor shown if you can. Another thing that's very different about producing content and testing is that I think developers would prefer a mostly uncut recording even if it means lots of repetitive footage, I believe they will know to skim through it if it's too repetitive. making guest puzzles is also a good way to improve your own puzzlecreating skills and leverage past guest puzzle experience for future developers you ask, like I did with this game :)
@@IcelyPuzzles Thanks, I'll check the community out!
Also, first letter of each paragraph
@@Martin-fb9pb chess battle advanced
Congrats on the release!
I've been playing through Islands of Insight and the glass temple puzzle is the only puzzle I hadn't been able to get through and had to use foresight on. I'm glad I know the solution now 😂
this explains why i randomly saw you in foxens chat when he was playing this lolll
this is awesome to see!! nicely done!
spoiler for 39:45 even if it's just a guess
I'm guessing you need to dictate the rules in each mini-board. Next to the 3 white cells or 4 black cells is a cell that says if you need to follow that rule. Black means yes, white means no. Solve everything else from there.
Anybody know which video/stream Aliensrock saw the CBA? I wanna see more of his reaction
I love this game so much I can’t play it myself but it is awesome
Gaming has gone so far... I can't believe we reached the point where my laptop doesn't have the specs to run a puzzle game :(
3:30 Easier deduction is the white in column 4 can't be 4 in a row
since you're roped in the development of the game, do you think there's a chance the game will come to ps5? i loved playing the open playtest but had major performance issues since i played in a very low-end laptop, but was able to play another game that i had a similar issue with(the talos principle 2) on ps5 through remote play
unfortunately I have actual-no-idea about anything regarding to that
@@IcelyPuzzles shame. I really enjoyed the game, but i will stay optimistic
Oh my god you made that pattern puzzle, you are a villain
professional puzzler
And, onto my Wishlist it goes!
I came across a grid that spelled CHBA at the end, I'm surprised that one wasn't you (Or at least not one you'd show just for the sake of it)
4:50 "Okay, so we have thia no U-"
This game looks so interesting and promising, which is absolutely tragic since there's a 99% chance that the servers shut down and nobody can ever play it again. I refuse to let myself get attached to something with such a disappointing shelf-life. If the developers can eventually remove the always-online thing (since it's just a leftover) then I would be willing to give this game a shot.
the director of this game has expressed not wanting to allow the game to get shut down in such a way that years worth of work will be unplayable. I get the situation is different since the guy has a publisher in the loop (so not-100% control) but the previous game, Prismata, was a game that also unfortunately didn't find a big audience (only a small dedicated group of big fans) and I saw the director made sure to keep the servers alive even throughout AWS issues and while working on this project. I do also get that the "team looking for new work" does potentially imply and leave the option open though, I wish it was more clear what was actually being stopped. but keeping servers alive just (subjectively, I dunno the values myself) should be much less than paying a team of 20 salaries for continued work.
But yeah there have been talks about having an offline mode. To me that would still be a sad ending instead of implementing some competitive or leaderboard feature to try to wrangle this game to multiplayer but it is sad that the launch window opportunity is kind of past that.
3:20 From here, you can notice that there’s already a four-in-a-row threat in the fourth column, which means that the section above it must be black.
Edit: Oh, it was mentioned right after I commented at 3:41…LOL!!!
i Cannot Be Asked to try this Challenging Brain Adventure
what software do you use to do real time effects on your recording? like the blue cursed screen or the region highlights? seems pretty useful and versatile
it's just use of obs
Coglaruntiations! (battle advanced)
11:49 i never considered this possibility
You made the one at 7:43? I curse you. I spent so long on that...
6:50 no way its the roof pattern of one of the lingo areas
Oh wow, didn't know you made that puzzle at 7:55 that was so difficult as I just really don't see the line seperator (and the small yellow x really doesn't help). So I view the the black as whole section rather than individual section. I didn't get it until I saw a post in discussion thread about it
Edit after watching the whole video:
I still think going multiplayer is bad idea. In general puzzle games has much smaller audience. Even if there are competitive elements, at its core it is still a puzzle game. I don't think it would attract wide audience just because there are competitive aspect in game. And hosting online game is expensive too, if it didn't do well, there is chance of constantly losing money with server cost.
Realiscaly they should have at least start as single player game and maybe if it is sale well, then add the multiple player aspect
puzzle games do have a rep of being niche yeah. it's weird though, cause some puzzle games are able to really break that 'niche' barrier, baba/portal/witness/supraland have tons of reviews and the very start of IOI it was pitched as being potentially able to pick up these kinds of players and retain them. so I personally feel it should have been truly multiplayer from the start, it's also harder to suddenly program multiplayer into the game afterwards i think. "multiplayer puzzle game" is at least a unique genre (both to pitch potential investors and for players), instead of "another great singleplayer puzzle game"
the Dark Souls of Dark Cells
Ayo you made a game (i mean, worked on a game), will def check it out fr
Love your vid and puzzles so im sure the game its peak :p
What you worked on Taiji???
this is fucking crazy i wish i could be apart of anything cool like this
woah! i didn’t you made puzzles in those games!
12:59 Chess Battle Advanced.
18:48 walcome buck
The first person portion of the game is reminiscent to ‘a story about my uncle’ a.k.a every commentary UA-camrs b roll lol.
a story about my uncle had some cool atmospheres so I have a fond time with that game, it's funny you mention it's a b-roll game because I've never seen it used as a surfing b-roll but it definitely fits lol
Underclued rules are how I play Piccross (or nonary I think they're also called) 😊
"must see through the 4th dimension"
you are not gonna believe this *5d golf
Where'd you learn to design puzzles with unique logic? I'd love to design puzzles with those eureka moments.
I want to develop my own puzzle games but I can't see myself being able to create enough good puzzles for one of them.
On Cracking the Cryptic's UA-cam channel they have a couple of videos where Sudoku constructors talk about how they set a certain puzzle. Most of the time you need to have the Eureka moment yourself in order to put it in a puzzle
for specific moments, you can often start the puzzle by building around that interaction, and then what remains afterwards if it doesn't fill the rest of the grid you can add more clues and symbols, it's also possible to cut off the grid with a 'null' cell or adjust the size to remove those ambiguous cells entirely, and you end up with a unique solution
I recommend you learn python and use CPMpy. It's a solver for logical puzzles. you tell it the constraints and it will figure out the answers and total number of possible solutions to these kinds of puzzles. With it you can then quickly prototype new rules and constraints in puzzles. Also create a quick UI for it.
I was secretly hoping for a 4x4 logic grid where the solution is the Lingo smile
I have a puzzle that draws the word "HI" as a kinda lingo reference lol
but making an interesting 4x4 is hard :p but that would be very fun
@@IcelyPuzzlesmaybe it doesnt have to be interesting, just a simple puzzle that forces you to make a reference
There is at least 1 logic grid that requires trial by error
You’re really underrated
This actually is pretty interesting!
Considering you worked on it, how do you feel about the lack of success it had?
Personally I find it unfortunate, as it is a great and fun game, but some decisions made were a bit questionable... So I wasn't surprised... Still, hope the game will one day still get the treatment it deserves.
I felt the icely perimiating this game. The CBA pings definitely helped.
I was very excited for the game and recently tried the demo, but it just didn't click with me. I think that I would 100% buy the game if it was just a level select into the logic grids and no more than that.
3:21 R2C4 is black to prevent a white four in a row. Sorry for being one of those people, I’m sure somebody pointed out already but I couldn’t help myself 😛
Btw I haven’t played Islands yet (I wish to eventually), but is there a way to also contribute puzzles to the game for DLCs or something? I don’t imagine there is, but I’m asking just in case.
Okay this is what I get for not watching literally twenty seconds into the future. Leaving this comment here because I deserve the humiliation lmao
33:53 The puzzle doesn't seem too troll??
Solution is -|----- with a 0 around the twos pointing up
Omg that's supposed to be an arrow...
lmao
No way my reddit post complaining about the knight move puzzle made it into the video 💀
Great work! Was already suspecting something fishy from watching tyler solve all the grid+letter puzzles lol
Wish i could actually buy the game though but russia is banned from purchasing this =/
...Which was weird to learn since the pre-release playtesting *was* allowed in here
screw nda's, but i never expected you to have made like 19% of my favorite puzzle type in the game!
edit: man, i should really play this more
When I saw the video I thought you wou write chess battle advence and the answer would be your channel logo
I'm proud of you, son.
the game icon on youtube isn't even loaded
oh you also designed a mystery puzzle as well.
17:53 "extend"
I can’t believe it’s spreading.
Chess Battle Advanced
i played the demo very cool game loved it
Checker Board-Puzzle Agony
5:58 they denied mumbo jumbo nooooooo
celery development
This game is amazing. shame my computer cant really run it. "can but I dont like 5 fps games"
Islands of Insight Advanced
300 views in 10 minutes? Dude is still popular
alienrock predicted 💀
chess battle advanced.
Honestly though these are all really well designed lol
Wait wtf icely made this game????
Now that’s Chess Battle Advanced moment
You’re the one who made the Meniscus (i think that’s the one) mystery? You…
chess battle advanced
Love the game y'all did a fatastic job with it!
Nevermind, that pattern puzzle was dogshit and I hated it, ***** you icely
lmao
SO i have someone to blame for *that* puzzle now
What is this Chess Battle Advanced? Is it a lost GBA game?
Chess Battle Advanced
i like your videos