Computer Puzzle Game

Information about Computer Puzzle Game

Minesweeper, a popular computer puzzle game found on many machines.

Video puzzle game is a genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can be logic, strategy, pattern recognition, sequence solving, word completion, or, in some cases, just pure luck.

Description

There is no strict definition of a puzzle game. The gameplay is usually abstract, involving arranging geometric shapes to fulfill some goal or constraint. In some games the player directly manipulates the objects, in others it is the enviroment that is controlled. Some require quick reflexes, others have a slower, contemplative pace.^[1] Often edge matching or colour matching plays an important role. Puzzle games usually strive to have a pick-up-and-play accessibility to them and to have an addictive quality. They are popular with travelers and commuters for the same general reasons as the airport novel: Low bars to accessibility, moderate levels of personal involvement, and a relatively easy and painless mode of abandoning and reaccessing one's progress in the event of being jostled or moved. They provide a welcome distraction from the jostling and inconvenience of travel.

Types of game

Some puzzle games feed the player a random assortment of blocks or pieces that they must organize in the correct manner, such as Tetris, Klax and Lumines. Tetris, designed in 1985, is considered one of the most important video puzzle games and has spawned many sequels, variations and clones of the "falling block" variety.^[2] Others present a preset game board and/or pieces and challenge the player to solve the puzzle by achieving a goal (Bomberman, The Incredible Machine). Some of the games in the former category have a mode that plays like the latter. For example, in both Tetrisphere and Tetris Attack, there is an actual "puzzle mode" in which the player must clear a pre-defined board within a certain amount of moves.

Some games are not puzzle games, yet contain many puzzle elements, such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill and the Legend of Zelda series.

Because puzzle games are often so abstract, the term is sometimes used as a blanket term for games with unique and otherwise indescribable gameplay. Every Extend Extra is an example of this.

Puzzle games are often easy to develop and adapt: from dedicated arcade units, to home video game consoles, to personal digital assistants and mobile phones.

The game Minesweeper is notable because of the large installed user base (the game comes bundled with the Microsoft Windows operating system).

External links

History of Puzzle Games at GameSpot

References

1. ^ Miller, Skyler. The History of Puzzle Games: Introduction". GameSpot UK. Retrieved on 2007-09-18.
2. ^ Miller, Skyler. The History of Puzzle Games: Tetris". GameSpot UK. Retrieved on 2007-09-18.

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Computer and video game genres

video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.

The word video in video game traditionally refers to a raster display device.
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puzzle is a problem or enigma that challenges ingenuity. In a basic puzzle you piece together objects in a logical way in order to come up with the desired shape, picture or solution.
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Logic (from Classical Greek λόγος logos; meaning word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle) is the study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
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A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, most often "winning". Strategy is differentiated from tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand by its nature of being extensively premeditated, and often practically rehearsed.
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Luck is a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's control. Luck can be good or bad.

Luck as lack of control

Luck refers to that which happens beyond a person's control.
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Travel is the transport of people on a trip/journey or the process or time involved in a person or object moving from one location to another. Reasons for travel include:

Tourism—travel for recreation.

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Commuting is the process of travelling between a place of residence and a place of work. Students who are enrolled at a college or university but who live off-campus are also typically referred to as commuters; such institutions having few dormitories are called
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Tetris (Russian: Тетрис) is a , released on a large spectrum of platforms. Alexey Pajitnov originally designed and programmed the game in June 1985^[1]
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Klax is a 1989 computer puzzle game designed by Dave Akers and Mark Stephen Pierce. The object is to line up colored blocks into rows of similar colors to make them disappear, similar to Columns.
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Bomberman (ボンバーマン Bonbāman
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The Incredible Machine (aka TIM) is a series of computer games that were originally designed and coded by Kevin Ryan and produced by Jeff Tunnell, the now-defunct Jeff Tunnell Productions, and published by Dynamix; the 1993 through 1995 versions had the same
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Tetrisphere is a video game released for the Nintendo 64 in 1997. It is a peculiar variant on Tetris in which various shapes are shifted across a sphere and destroyed.
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Resident Evil, known in Japan as Biohazard (バイオハザード
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Silent Hill (サイレントヒル) is a survival horror video game franchise developed and published by Konami. As of 2007, most installments have been created by Team Silent with the exception of two upcoming titles, , which is being
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The Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説 Zeruda no Densetsu
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Every Extend Extra (or EEE for short) is an "action shooting" game by Q Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). The game launched in Japan on August 3, 2006 and in the USA on November 7, 2006 with the strapline 'Music In Your Mind' and is due for
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An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, pubs, video arcades, and Family Entertainment Centers. Most arcade games are redemption games, merchandisers, video games or pinball machines.
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video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or electronic device that manipulates the video display signal of a display device (a television, monitor, etc.) to display a game.
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Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are handheld computers, but have become much more versatile over the years. PDAs are also known as pocket computers or palmtop computers.
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mobile phone or cell phone is a long-range, portable electronic device used for mobile communication. In addition to the standard voice function of a telephone, current mobile phones can support many additional services such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching
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Minesweeper is a single-player computer game. The object of the game is to clear an abstract minefield without detonating a mine. The game has been rewritten for nearly every system platform in use today.
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Microsoft Windows

Screenshot of Windows Vista Ultimate, the latest version of Microsoft Windows.
Company/developer: Microsoft Corporation
OS family: MS-DOS/9x-based, Windows CE, Windows NT
Source model: Closed source

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An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer. An operating system processes system data and user input, and responds by allocating and managing tasks and internal system resources as a service to users and programs of the
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This is a partial list of notable puzzle-based computer games and video games, sorted by general category.

Visual matching

Falling block puzzles

In these video games, the player must match individual pieces which fall onto the puzzle.
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Jumping puzzles are puzzle sequences in computer and video games, particularly in the genre of platformers, where the player character is required to use jumping to proceed, often in a manner that requires precise timing or landing in an exact manner.
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