Hearthside Chat: The Puzzle Lab with Giovanni Scarpati and Max Ma
Hearthstone's Mission Designer, Giovanni Scarpati, and Lead UI Designer, Max Ma, are showcasing the Puzzle Lab which launches next week on August 21 and is completely free to play. You'll earn three card packs for logging in next week.
Quote from DaxxarriJoin Hearthstone Mission Designer Giovanni Scarpati and Lead UI Designer Max Ma as they take you on a tour of Boom Labs’ most enigmatic facilities: The Puzzle Lab!
In The Puzzle Labs, you’re tasked with helping Boom Labs head scientists and their assistants overcome challenging obstacles to their research! Each lab represents one of four different puzzle types: Lethal, Mirror, Board Clear, or Survival. Each lab starts with a simple challenge—a “Puzzles 101” to familiarize you with the experimental procedures—but they ramp way up in difficulty from there! You can do The Puzzle Labs in any order, so if you get stuck, you can shake things up and put in some work at a different Lab for a while.
Complete every last puzzle in the place, and you’ll earn one heck of a diploma: The Boomlabs! card back will be added to your collection!
Don’t forget! If you haven’t claimed them already, you can still log in to get a free Legendary minion (or Hero card) and three card packs—both from the new expansion—FREE! Join us starting August 21 to experience The Puzzle Labs, and get three more The Boomsday Project card packs when you log in. These free card packs and Legendary card are only available for a limited time—so act fast!—but The Puzzle Lab is here to stay.
I am super excited about this. I love that you can mix it up between the modes, I love that you can leave a puzzle and come back to it, and I love the reset button.
I just hope they've got the difficulty balance right... I don't want to find myself whizzing through it in a couple of hours, but nor do I want to be banging my head against a brick wall getting stuck on every puzzle! Can't wait to give it a go :D
i love it when giovanni says "we cant wait for the puzzle lab to go live" and we want it as soon as possible. so the most logical solution is to release it in a week.
Meh, looks like they reset pretty quick, you shouldn't have to try many times for RNG to work out even if it is involved.
There will be no RNG elements in the puzzles. They can all be solved on first try if Mike Donais is to be believed (Source).
Oh! I waited so long for HS puzzles! I expected them in a brawl sometime, but this is even better!
And I can sooo relate to wanting to tell people about how hard it was to make something... not noticeable. They deserve credit for that.
I think this will be easy
Went into a spasm when i saw Dr Morrigan :) ..........just fantastic we getting more free packs.
blizzard tacaño, quiero las aventuras de vuelta
stingy blizzard, I want the adventures back
Playing a videogame is its own reward. Grow up, Hearthstone community - you're embarrassing yourselves.
Time for some solo exploration with the aid of science and boom
HS: Here's some new extra content, what do you think? Pretty cool, eh?
Senfgurke: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! I WANT TO BE REWARDED FOR PLAYING THE EXTRA CONTENT THAT BLIZZARD DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO CREATE AT ALL! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
Me: Once again, some people will LITERALLY complain about EVERYTHING. The "You owe me" generation at it's finest.
Exactly. These whiners want a reward for playing a game - how about a shot of dopamine straight in the brain? That used to be a good enough reason to play a game, but people are so pitifully brainwashed by capitalism they think they deserve a reward with financial value attached to it. FOR PLAYING A GAME. It's actually sickening.
ok, the way you said that made it sound like we lazily sat down, played some checkers, and asked for money. but it is quite different than that.
hearthstone is not a game that stays the same, with new cards and expansions, people will want to play different things, and so we want new cards to play new decks. and some people actually want to progress in the game, isnt that the point of a game? to progress in it? so we want to get new cards, to play new decks, to get a higher rank, to get legend, which is basicly as close to "winning" hearthstone as it gets.
you dont have to get angry because blizzard makes it so that you need card packs to play the game, and then we want card packs. your whining about us whining, and that makes you wrong, and annoying.
The best Ultimate Infestation is invisible
can't wait, i always love solo adveture games
I guess they should just give us a quest: win 3 games in ranked, reward: unlock puzzle no1.
That kind of tricks works with my 2 y.o. and I see a connection here
Lethal puzzles are what made me start playing HS I remeber back then I watched amaz (now I can't watch him anymore too-annoying voice) trying to solve a quite complicate (at least for a newbie me back then) lethal puzzle with sylvannas, I am really looking forward to those puzzles!
I just want fun, I mean it is a free puzzle game, I love puzzle games. Like I want free stuff, but if you are gonna give me free stuff, just give me it, in this scenario the free stuff we are given is a puzzle game, and putting free stuff behind free stuff seems silly when you can just give people both free things directly.
Looks great! I love puzzle solving.
Card back is fine but some small rewards after each block would have been nice. Like dust or gold(100 dust/10 gold) or a pack, but it is free so i'm, ok with it. Sometimes it can just feel like you're wasting time, but would there be rewards, it would make it more satisfying. That's just me tho
lol 100 dust or 10 gold ?!
I would choose 100 dust all the time, the value is extremely different.
should be 5 dust or 10 gold if you want to go with this number
100 dust is impossible as a reward for each puzzle, it worth around 150 gold !