In this guest post, Eleven Puzzles Lead Game Designer Mairi Nolan shares how the team built communication into their latest release, Unsolved Case, and the importance of verbal interaction in the game.
Communication is a vital component of… well… everything – whether it’s communication between friends, building bridges across communities, or meeting a stranger for the first time. This is particularly true in the virtual world, where a person on the other side of the screen may be from any background, anywhere in the world. Whatever unites us as people, we’re better when we’re working together, and the world of video games is the perfect forum to connect people – and players – through powerful games.
At Eleven Puzzles, we recognize the importance of verbal communication in video games and have decided to make it a central component of our game design philosophy, especially when it comes to puzzle games. Cast your mind back to 2020, when the world plunged into a lockdown, leaving many people alone without their friends, family, or colleagues around them. With fewer in-person interactions, we wanted to give players a way to communicate with each other, despite physical distances.
From our start creating a series of browser-based games, we pivoted our skills into Unity, and, in 2022, released Unsolved Case, a free, two-player puzzle co-op game. Our second game built with Unity, Unboxing the Cryptic Killer, is due to launch later this year.
Source: Unity Technologies Blog