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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) by MattRix on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @08:24PM (#45895335)
This is really well made! As someone who has built daily puzzle games (ex. sidewords.ca, kickoffleague.com, and just today fivefold.ca), I appreciate the effort it takes to make something that polished! It plays really well on mobile, which is tricky, especially when you’ve got a grid as big as yours.
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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) by paulhebert on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @08:58PM (#45895529)
Thanks, I’ll have to try out your games! Any tips or recommendations you’ve learned from your puzzles?
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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) by MattRix on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:26AM (#45896953)
Hah well one tip would be do NOT make a complex framing/structure for your daily puzzle game like we did with Kickoff League. It was a fun experiment but it mostly just confused people.

A more meta tip is if you make multiple games, try to have some genre or theme overlap so you can build a community among players of your games. I wish I had done this more with my more successful games (which are mobile games, not web games, but the same idea applies).

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) by paulhebert on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:07PM (#45903513)
That makes sense, thanks!
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