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@JamesR Pic-a-Pix Deluxe has large puzzles up to 40x30 grids! They’ll take you a while...

If you want to try picross with touchscreen controls, Pic-a-Pix Deluxe has a free demo. Although we included this feature from day 1, what we've learned is that players like to be able to touch the screen for fast navigation around a large grid, but it's not all that useful for painting pixels once you get into bigger puzzles (not that Picross S goes very large, but there is DLC in our game that goes up to 40x30). We've not actually heard of anyone playing with a stylus on Switch.

@RyanCraddock can contact me directly for more insight if he likes

@datamonkey Pic-a-Pix Deluxe and Pic-a-Pix Pieces both have touchscreen support. Free demos of both.

@HobbitGamer In case you've missed it, Pic-a-Pix Deluxe is a picross game with touch screen

This list omits the Word Search by POWGI demo for Switch, but it looks like Nintendo missed it on the NA announcement. Any chance you could add it please, Dom? I sent you our press release earlier today.

It never gets mentioned, but Pic-a-Pix Deluxe has new DLC again this week. For those who need more picross in their life...

@crackafreeze It is a new demo for Pic-a-Pix Deluxe, to replace the Christmas-themed one that was released last year. It has 12 new puzzles, colour blind mode, and a few fixes. There is a patch to the main game that also adds these features, rolling out any day now!

Panic sale for Picross e7 ahead of Pic-a-Pix Colour coming out next week

@Nintendian You might be under-estimating the work required in creating this kind of puzzle ever-so-slightly It's vitally important that a Picross puzzle is solvable using logic alone. I've seen some games where you get to a point and have to guess, and it's dreadful!. If you just feed in a random image, it may or may not be uniquely solvable - but more often than not, it won't be. So then it needs tweaking to make sure the logic is sound; but you still have to make sure it looks like the image you want. You can try this yourself in games with a generator, like PixlCross. While making Pic-a-Pix Color we developed our own algorithms for generating/solving but still decided to purchase content from a company who have a team of experienced puzzle artists, because it's all about the joy you get when those beautiful pictures are revealed

@Henmii And yes, there will be music!

@Eisenbolan Actually no. Color Cross has separate clues for each colour, kind of like layers which then merge to form the image. This is one set of clues for the whole picture. The gaps between blocks of colour end up as the white colour. The puzzles are by Conceptis - their site explains the rules in much more detail than I can here!

@Moon It does run on the New 3DS browser, in a fashion. Please don't think this is representative of the 3DS game though, which is going to be super-lovely, if I say so myself. The Wii U version uses Nintendo Web Framework, hence the ability to extract a puzzle for this browser-based preview.

@Eisenbolan Thanks for your support! As I'm currently in the USA, I picked up a copy of NYT from a retro store yesterday so I can check it out We have a meeting next month to discuss a new range of licensed puzzle content too!

Randomness: I saw Jason in a Las Vegas show last year, playing Harold Zidler out of Moulin Rouge. Before the show, he came over to our seat and did a magic trick. And yes, he sang that version of Like A Virgin...

@UsualNoise Could you email a screenshot to the support address in the E-Manual or on our web site please?

@UsualNoise Thanks for this. I wonder if we can find a workaround. Triggering the scroll when dragging is no problem, but the game is doing some clever stuff for memory management that stops it being possible right now. Only slightly more of the wordsearch than you can see on screen is in memory at once. If it scrolled as you dragged, there would have to be a limit to how far you could drag, otherwise you could end up with a loop that began on a letter it no longer knows about - which means kaboom! Having it stop dragging suddenly might feel odd. Consider it on the list, and we'll try some things

@Eisenbolan Thank you for the kind words. We do actually have content for Christmas and Halloween already, so it's a possibility

This game now also has a release date for North America: Thursday 9th June.

Not one we'd considered but I'll give it some thought. Not quite sure how to get a word-y spin on it, but we're already thinking the next POWGI pack will be based on logic puzzles so KenKen could fit.

@Eisenbolan Thanks for the feedback, and I'm really glad you enjoyed Epic Word Search. There's definitely another pack of those to come, but we still have a few new games to come before putting a "2" on the end of anything

@SH007ME We have no plans to discount this title beyond the cross-buy offer.

@RCMADIAX We'd have to talk privately about this. Drop me a line via the support address on our web site.

@RCMADIAX Absolutely right. We may have been able to go down the licensing path, but I suspect this would have delayed the game by months, if not years, and ultimately would have allowed it to support only a small handful of amiibo. Giving a little extra to anyone who owned any amiibo was the real turn on for us in making this game

Saved a copy. Will make future QA testing both more thorough and more interesting.

@Eisenbolan The game tracks your progress out of 480 puzzles but many of these are split into sub-puzzles, so there's even more than that make it sound (e.g. 6 Word Maze games per "puzzle"). Plus infinite additional puzzles using amiibo!

We say POW-gi. Like ka-pow

And don't worry, transatlantic BUTTBUTT fans, Word Puzzles by POWGI hits the North American eShop this week!

You are right to expect Word Puzzles by POWGI to be identical on both platforms. It's so identical, it comes with a cross-buy deal, which wasn't included in this announcement. Buy it on Wii U and get the 3DS version (on a linked NNID) for free! Or vice versa!

@maceng This video explains the amiibo support in a bit more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArcrHQVnf4

@BulbasaurusRex Each completed multiplayer game counts towards unlocking the next mini-game. It takes 1-3 completed games for each new mini-game. That's about 10 minutes of gameplay on average to unlock each new game. I hope you enjoy the demo with your sister

Well we are playing Word Party with the family

A reversed date is the most likely explanation. The "release date" for PEGI purposes is basically an embargo date, before which they won't publish details of your rating - a delayed release has no bearing on the rating. The ratings web form asks you to type it in European DD.MM.YYYY format, which could be easily done wrong by an American team. 11th December is a Friday, and therefore a suitable release date for a retail game.

All the built-in puzzles use English words, but a large character set is supported which means that amiibo puzzles can be generated using words from most Western languages.

@lillith Thanks for the review. It's good to hear what word puzzle fans think of the game. If you'd like to contact me directly (support email on our web site) I'd like to talk to you more