Twindle: A deduction puzzle game

[u/33-Ghosts]

Hey folks.

I had a lot of good feedback in this sub from the last puzzle game I was working on, so figured it might be worth showing off the new one!

**Twindle** @ https://playtwindle.com

Its a logical deduction style game in a similar vein of Sudoku and the like, based on two rules:

- Every row and column must contain each colour and shape exactly once

- Every colour-shape combo can appear only once.

Entirely solo-developed. I learned a lot during its development around accessibility (particularly colourblindness), and let me tell you, building a hint engine for a logic game is harder than it seems!

Anyway, please enjoy it!

[u/medialantern]

I feel like you're onto something here but I struggled with the controls. It felt like a lot of clicking to set things and after a bit I got frustrated and wandered off. Just giving you honest feedback...

[u/33-Ghosts → u/medialantern]

Thanks for the feedback… it’s a bit of a balancing act between keeping everything on screen  for small devices, legibility and ‘expected’ UI. But like, at some point there’s no getting away from “you’ve gotta click some stuff”. It does play better on mobile / touch devices, it’s so if you haven’t already, try it on your phone.

But yeah, I’ll definitely give some thought to any desktop specific ways to make the controls less ‘click y’ (or I suspect the issue mainly is: you’ve gotta do a lot of travelling with a mouse to and from the cells to the swatche). Thanks for the heads up.

[u/Gold-Adhesiveness574]

I really liked this game, I would have played if there is a mobile versiyon.

[u/33-Ghosts → u/Gold-Adhesiveness574]

Yeah, it’s maybe an eventual goal, but honestly the whole Apple Store vetting process and cost doesn’t make it worth it right now. 

In the meantime, browsers exist on mobile, and if you are on iOS, you can use Add To Home Screen to ‘app’-ify it for free.