Animated Puzzles

UPDATE: Game is not abandoned, as the developer just replied to my post on the forums. Also - the game has a free demo. So yeah... what are you waiting for? What's that? The cows to come home? Yeah maybe just try it - trust me on this one: cow's not coming home. ----ORIGINAL REVIEW BELOW---- This game is pretty good. Because it's 3am, but I just couldn't put it down until I had uploaded a fractal zoom gif (and kept making it too big, but finally found a compromise). The game crashed a couple times with the animated gif - but that's forgivable (animated uploads are in "beta" - it's clearly marked in the game that way). It finally played the fractal zoom - and what a great feature to see all the pieces in the tray animating in sync! It was really cool - I can't imagine anyone not enjoying a puzzle like that. I'm pretty sure the game is abandoned. It's a bit of a shame. I finally tried the battles - they are turn-based where you place 5 pieces and then your opponent places 5 pieces. Lucky if you got corners or edges before they do - it's a fairly bad multiplayer thing as far as I can tell, but it might be tolerable if you play against a friend. I got matched to someone - and I couldn't tell if they were playing - there's no chat. It's kind of suck. Fractal zoom gif puzzle - holy cow that was fun! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1979732568 Not impressed? See the zoom: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1980320852 Pro: Upload any picture you like in the workshop and select how many pieces you want the picture to be cut into, and upon playing, select what kind of piece outline pattern to use. Pieces may be in the wrong rotation, so you have to click several times to rotate them into place. When 2 or more pieces "fit" together, there's a nice bell sound affirming you made a good connection, and those pieces all become one contiguous piece if you try to pick them up again. Hence they have to be in the right orientation for them to stick together. All tiles on the board (whether located correctly or not) snap to a grid location. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1978774510 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1979033214 Pro: The game will also save and resume your progress if you decide to quit the game and come back later! This is fantastic!! Con: I have asked if there is a non-competitive co-op mode, but the dev has said nothing yet. Neutral: There's a "battle mode". I guess that is for the more warmonger-bent puzzle competitors in the room. You guys can go play over there. Please try to keep the noise down. I will be over here, quietly putting pieces in place, and waiting for the non-competitive feature to get added so I can enjoy playing this with friends without having to keep score - I hope. Con: It would be REALLY nice to see the tiles at full size which are off to the side. The bin they sit in can be dragged out (left to right or right to left), but the size of the tiles that aren't lying on the board is about 75% actual size and hard to see some details. Even without multiplayer this is really very cool depending on whether you love the pictures - and uploading some fractals has turned into a great time trying to solve them as puzzles.

这应该是steam唯一的一款支持自定义以及创意工坊的拼图游戏了。 游戏的自由的很高，你既可以任意上传自己喜欢的图片，也可以在创意工坊下载自己满意的作品。你可以拼40块的拼图小试牛刀，也可以挑战600+的拼图挑战一下自己(前提是你需要一块大屏:D) 但是有点可惜的是界面的设计不如其他的几种同类型游戏，生成的每一个拼图小块的样式也略显生硬。

自由度最高的拼图没有之一，你可以创作自己的拼图，也可以在创意工坊中下载自己喜爱的拼图，但是UI设计以及拼图块的设计等细节的处理方面显得些许的有一些廉价了，但是我认为瑕不掩瑜，对于拼图爱好者来说，仍是非常值得你去尝试的一作

This is the definitive jigsaw puzzle game. There are plenty of puzzles across 3 levels of difficulty with a half dozen piece shapes to choose from which can further tailor your difficulty level. The music is relaxing. The interface is easy to use. The pieces can be rotated. Once you have placed connecting pieces together they stay together. The images are varied and nice to look at. The animated backgrounds actually make the puzzles a little easier. The only downside to this game is that it ends when you finish the puzzles, which will take quite a while to do. But even that has an upside in Workshop support with plenty of puzzles to choose from. This is really a great game. It contains all the joy of putting together puzzles without the physical space requirements or missing pieces.

+ semplice ed immediato + qualitativamente ottimo + potenzialmente infinito grazie al workshop - coop migliorabile La meccanica di gioco è semplice, il classico puzzle con molti preset già dentro il gioco, molti dei quali animati e davvero ben curati. Il punto di forza è il workshop, si puo' aggiungere una qualsiasi foto e trasformarla in puzzle, scegliendo anche il numero di pezzi, da fare da soli o con amici. Questo punto imho è da migliorare perché l'unico modo che il gioco permette di fare un puzzle "insieme" è a turno, quindi sostanzialmente è un versus piu' che una cooperativa, tra l'altro senza un reale senso di sfida in quanto il tempo per mettere i pezzi è illimitato. Grazie a questi dettagli durante le partite ci si sente quasi "soli". Sarebbe carino mettere una modalità cooperativa dove poter mettere i pezzi contemporanemente, magari aggiungendo un punteggio per ogni pezzo inserito correttamente. Tuttavia il gioco è quasi unico nel suo genere e grazie alla totale personalizzazione dei puzzle riesce a regalare qualche ora di relax quando si ha voglia di fare un puzzle insieme a qualcun altro.

I rate Animated Puzzles 4.5/5. Truly excellent, this is almost certainly the best electronic jigsaw puzzle game available on Steam and is certainly the best electronic jigsaw puzzle game I have ever played. Many other computer jigsaw puzzle games completely miss one of the greatest benefits of having any jigsaw puzzles on a computer in the first place: The potential to have pictures which are at least slightly animated or have some sort of motion within them. Animated Puzzles realizes that potential and does so with a slick, easy to learn, easy to use interface which is far more intuitive than the relatively clunky control schemes most other jigsaw puzzle games are hampered by. And if you want to do jigsaw puzzles that do not have any animation in them, there are numerous such puzzles available free-of-charge in this game’s Steam workshop as well. +Numerous puzzles included with the game (with some sort of animation within each puzzle image). Each of the default puzzles has 3 different difficulty options which control the number of pieces the puzzle will have. +It is fairly easy to create your own puzzles using animated .gif files which you may happen to have on your computer so long as they are neither too small nor too large for this game’s somewhat narrow resolution parameters. Images must be larger than 500 by 500 pixels. +It is also extremely easy to create your own puzzles using non-animated image files (including .jpg) as well. +You are not required to publically share (via the Steam Workshop page) any custom puzzles you create. You can label puzzles you create as ‘private.’ +Quiet, unobtrusive but nice satisfying sound effects. Easy for music to be played over the sound effects without those sounds intruding over the music. +Extensive selection of user-created puzzles in the game’s Steam Workshop. +Excellent, easy to learn interface and excellent controls overall. The puzzle assembly area can be easily resized. +Game runs quickly and smoothly. No major bugs. +Several options for what kind of jigsaw puzzle pieces you want to use on ANY puzzle. +This game has an extremely relaxing feeling overall. +/-Puzzle pieces must be oriented properly before they fit together but this can be used to your great advantage. +/-Music gets old fast but it can be easily turned down or muted and it is fairly easy to use the windows key to access a desktop media player while Animated Puzzles is open and then return to the game without incident. -It is a little too easy to accidentally destroy your entire puzzle by clicking and dragging it off the screen and into the panel where individual, disassembled pieces are stored (this is the most potentially frustrating aspect of the entire game and is the equivalent of accidentally shoving a physical puzzle off of a table and onto the floor) but with a little care you can keep this situation from occurring. -The vast majority of the puzzles in this game’s Steam workshop are non-animated. -There is absolutely no guidance provided on whether or not it is OK to create sexually explicit puzzles (animated or otherwise) and put them on the Steam workshop. There appears to be no separate sexually explicit section for such puzzles but it seems very possible for such puzzles to be potentially created and shared if someone wanted to. So far, I have not seen any such puzzles on the Steam workshop. -There also seems to be absolutely no concern in the Animated Puzzles Steam workshop with the idea that the creators of any given still image or animated .gif file be credited with its original creation before it is uploaded as a potential user-created puzzle. However, as no monetary transactions occur in this game’s Steam Workshop, any potential copyright issues are probably, at worst, only slight.

A nice jigsaw puzzle game which as the name implies has animated puzzles. The puzzle pieces and rules are customizable and also has workshop support which is always great when there aren't that many puzzles to do by default. Linux version of the game works without any issues.

Multiplayer bir puzzle oyunu arıyorsanız bundan iyisini bulamazsınız, workshop desteği ile beraber içerisinde sınırsız puzzle barındırıyor.

Best puzzle game out there!

Workshop support is nice.