Island Evolution Blog
Notes on order puzzles: where the genre came from, how to think your way through one, and how this game was built.
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History
What Are GROW Games? The Eyezmaze Series Explained
On Nakayama started the series in February 2002 and it never really stopped being copied. Here is what a GROW game actually is, and which ones to play first.
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Devlog
Making Island Evolution: 40,320 Orders, 3 Perfect
Building a GROW-style game in Godot 4: a rules engine you can brute force, a pixel art pipeline, and the browser bug that silenced the title music.
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Guide
How to Play Order Puzzles Without Guessing
Eight items have 40,320 possible orders, so trial and error will not get you there. Four ways to read a puzzle like this one, no solutions given away.
