"Developer Mark Ffrench has carved out something of a unique niche on Steam, regularly releasing fill-a-pix logic puzzle games of enormous scale and surprising depth. Among others in 2024 there was , a wall-sized puzzle based on Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting Netherlandish Proverbs, and 2024: Mosaic Retrospective, which contained dozens of interlocking images recalling major events from the whole year. Following Mosaic of the Pharaohs earlier this year, we now have the most elaborate"
"To get everyone on the same page, fill-a-pix is one of the many logic puzzle types to come from puzzle maestros Conceptis, where you fill in a grid based on Minesweeper rules. Each number in the grid indicates the number of cells that should be shaded in the three-by-three grid of which it sits in the center. So, a "6" on the side of a puzzle means all six cells are shaded, while a "0""
Mark Ffrench regularly releases enormous fill-a-pix logic puzzle mosaics on Steam, creating wall-sized grids segmented into many individual puzzles. Recent works include mosaics based on Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Netherlandish Proverbs and a 2024 Mosaic Retrospective of the year's events, following Mosaic of the Pharaohs. Mosaic of the Strange pairs the large fill-a-pix format with a pixelated point-and-click adventure, increasing complexity and scale. Fill-a-pix requires shading cells in a grid based on numbers that indicate shaded counts in 3x3 neighborhoods. Completion of puzzle segments triggers pop-up information; in Mosaic of the Strange those pop-ups are documents.
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