Browser Gaming
How Free Browser Games Make Money
How free games make money is not a secret: display ads, rewarded video, sponsorship, purchases and licensing. What each pays and what it costs the player.
Jing · · 8 min read
Blog — Page 2
Level walkthroughs for the games on this site, written from the actual boards, plus what the research says about puzzles and the brain and how browser games work.
Traffic & Unblock Puzzles
Helicopter Escape: Guide to Clearing the Airspace
The Helicopter Escape game is a one-tap route puzzle: an aircraft flies out when the line ahead of its nose is clear. Rules from the code, situations, habits.
Jing · · 10 min read
Arrow Escape Guides
What Makes a Good Puzzle Level: A Designer's View
Puzzle level design judged by numbers from 100 measured boards: how wide the choice is, how deep the board peels, what a mistake costs, and where the curve breaks.
Jing · · 11 min read
Traffic & Unblock Puzzles
Traffic Escape Walkthrough: The Early Game
A Traffic Escape walkthrough of the early game by situation rather than by level: the clockless first board, the edge scan, blocked taps, and when to take a heart.
Jing · · 10 min read
Traffic & Unblock Puzzles
Why Traffic Puzzles Are Mathematically Hard
Sliding block puzzle complexity is settled: Rush Hour is PSPACE-complete, dominoes suffice for hardness, the fifteen puzzle has unreachable positions. What it means.
Jing · · 10 min read
Arrow Escape Guides
Arrow Escape: Complete Guide to Every Level
An Arrow Escape guide built from the real boards: the rules, a level 1 opening, what changes at levels 3, 47 and 100, and the hardest levels by the numbers.
Jing · · 16 min read
Arrow Escape Guides
Arrow Puzzle Tap Away: How a Tap-Only Rule Changes Strategy
Arrow Puzzle Tap Away keeps Arrow Escape's exit rule and changes the rest: one tile per arrow, picture-shaped boards, three hearts, a heart for every blocked tap.
Jing · · 11 min read