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Mael Duin 🧩

@maelduinplays.bsky.social

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Puzzle videogames Content Creator, Streamer & Steam Curator @Puzzle Lovers. Gameplays, reviews, interviews and more. LIVE on: 🔴 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@Mael_Duin/ 🟣 Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/mael_duin

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Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 11m

I believe it’s going to be between Blue Prince and The Seance for puzzle GOTY this year.

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 1h

Steam and YouTube. It’s a Wild West out there… U_U

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 7h

What about a cosy puzzle for tomorrow's stream?
🪑 Is this seat taken? (by @potipoti.studio)
🕵️ Little problems (by‬‬ Posh Cat Studio @littleproblems.bsky.social‬‪)

See you LIVE on YouTube❤️+💜Twitch
#puzzlegame #indiegame #livestream #youtube #twitch #isthisseattaken #littleproblems

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Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 1d

Smash it wild is 😙👌

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 1d

Wishlisting your own game hoping one day you’ll wake up and it’s suddenly released? That’s “a sound plan”! 😆

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 3d

A bit more orange and almost like in the cover art 🧑‍🚀

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 3d

Added 👇
@thinkygames.com
@jagriff.bsky.social
@puzzlejunkies.bsky.social
to this magnificent group, for when you’d rather watch someone else being puzzled.

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Alan Hazelden / Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 4d

The brand new puzzle game from Draknek & Friends is launching SOON 👇🎃

Pick up the creepy cryptids and drop them at their destinations around Trainsylvania. But be careful! Stay on track of the situation or you’ll have a grave problem.

spooky.express

Spooky Express

Plan the train route for the world’s spookiest theme park! All the passengers are all just dying to ride the Spooky Express.

spooky.express

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Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 5d

Well it was the 7th anyway in Australia 😆 1 month!

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats for making it to the finish line 🏁 That “2025” glows very bright in the dark!!! 😎

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Aviv Levy - Wishlist Xenospore @avivlevy.bsky.social · 5d

I made a strategy and incremental game about exploiting a planet’s resources and building automation with robots for Ludum Dare 58, it's called Planet Extraction🌍

#indiegamedev #pixelart

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Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 5d

Is it available online?

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Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 5d

Barrels are a dev hack ‘cause they face all directions 😉

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Laughing Manatee Games @laughingmanatee.bsky.social · 5d

Puzzle Depot launches on November 6th!

📦🪳📦🪳📦🪳📦🪳📦

Please wishlist us on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/3108190/...

In the meantime, enjoy this juicy montage of gameplay clips from various levels...

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Laughing Manatee Games @laughingmanatee.bsky.social · 6d

It's happening

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Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 6d

POSITIVES:
🙂+
😄+ the mix of genres
😍+
NEGATIVES:
🙁- replayability
😠-
😡-

🔷 Find Word worm here 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3923280/...
🔹 and more puzzle games here 👇
www.youtube.com/@Mael_Duin

Word Worm on Steam

A cross between a word search puzzle and trivia game, alongside your little worm buddy.

store.steampowered.com

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 6d

🔸 In the end WW is a small game that presents a concept that works, and hopefully it opens the door for the devs to explore it even further. Strongly recommended if you enjoy crosswords or word games.

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 6d

🔸 Replaying a level, resets all boards within the group, not just the one you want to replay. And replaying a board repeats the exact same words instead of grabbing a selection from a pool, generating a new board procedurally. This would have given the game a lot more variety and replayability.

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 6d

🔸 The ideas presented click and work along each other, but the game could have been expanded a little bit more, feeling like it didn't reach all its potential.

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 6d

🔸 The game keeps track of how many letters you 'touch' but don't become a word, like a penalty, but it doesn't affect the gameplay.

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 6d

🔸 In the 3rd phase, you can find words because they are known to you; otherwise you can deduct them: the number of words and their length is shown at the top, and since they are sorted alphabetically, you can use this information to your advantage.

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 6d

🔸 A WW level has 3 stages. 1st you start guessing the topic from the title, like a riddle. 2nd you test your guess carefully, by selecting letters (a commitment because you can't undo), and once the theme is clear, you search for the remaining words.

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 6d

🔶 Word worm (WW) is an interesting mix of trivia, letters soup and riddles. You need to find words on a board from an initial clue (the level's title) but the board only has the 4 initial letters of all words visible at the centre. Only when you select a letter, the adjacent ones are revealed.

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 6d

Word worm review 🐛 Not yet a butterfly
🔹 EXPECTATIONS: a scrabble clone.
🔹 REALITY: a mix of trivia and letters soup.

Mael Duin 🧩 @maelduinplays.bsky.social · 6d

Transition to parenthood in 5 easy steps:
1.- I'll take turns [with partner] during the night
2.- If I could lean my head here
3.- What if I close just 1 eye?
4.- I wis... I cou... hmmm...
5.- Zzzz...