Blue: A Creative, Grit-building Puzzle

Apr 18

Written By George Kachergis

Blue

Bart BONTE

Skillprint’s Ratings

Mood

Creativity
Grit

Genre

Puzzle
Hyper-casual

Skill

Pattern Matching
Deduction

Features

Free

Gameplay

Unlimited levels
Unlimited tries
Unlimited time

Description of the Game

Can you make the screen blue in all 50 levels? Each level has its own logic.

This game won Mobile Game of the Year at the Belgian Game Awards 2020, and continues to push the boundaries of creative interaction found in Bart Bonte’s other games.

If you get stuck, you can get a hint by tapping the light bulb button that will appear after a while in the top right of each level. If you can’t get enough, try Bart Bonte’s full palette of puzzle games: for example Yellow, or the freshly squeezed Orange!

Free play through hundreds of levels, or race against the clock in Time Trial mode. Gameplay ranges from simple and relaxed, to challenging and frenetic, and everywhere in between. How you play is up to you.

Why this works

Blue is a very engaging game due to its unique gameplay which is 50 different levels each requiring a different strategy. Just by looking at the screen you won’t be able to figure out what to do next: you will need to creatively experiment to find a path to success. The various levels rely on different cognitive skills, including pattern matching, deduction, and memory.

Conquering all 50 puzzles will build your grit, as learning through trial-and-error will require determination and perseverance. Blue also flexes your creativity muscles as you must imagine and experiment with all the possible ways to paint the screen blue. Fortunately, with no timer there’s no pressure for you to figure it out quickly, so it’s not frustrating or stressful.

Why Deduction Matters

A key skill practiced in Blue is deduction, being able to reason to a logical conclusion from some evidence. Blue exercises deduction on each level by giving you limited evidence at the outset, which you must interpret, hypothesize, and experiment on in order to deduce how to achieve your goal of turning the screen blue. The skill of determining facts and deriving conclusions from those facts is essential for decision-making and planning.