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Technically, almost all video games are puzzle games. (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago by sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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You could probably make a poptarts are sandwiches alignment style thing out of this.

Basically, any video game with an explicit goal, or set of goals is just a puzzle game with extra steps.

What buttons do you push, when do you push them, what does this accomplish, how does that lead you to your end goal, etc.

You could even argue that multiplayer tactics constitute a puzzle, a more social puzzle.

Yes, this is reductive, but this is a dumb showerthoughts post.

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[โ€“] neo@lemy.lol 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean, technically, I guess (insert Futurama technical correct meme), but with that defintion everything is a puzzle.

I just breathed in, what do I do next? I can't inhale more air. I have to think fast! Maybe if I breath out, I can then breath in again... It worked! Amazing!

[โ€“] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

A very simple puzzle which our brains and bodies usually perform automatically, yet there are quite a number of situations and conditions that make breathing significantly more difficult, or where precise breathing or certain ways of breathing are skills that require mastery.

Swimming, diving, circular breathing for wind instruments, controlling your breathing while shooting, trying to calm yourself down from a panic attack, etc etc.