{"id":268,"date":"2006-06-20T16:03:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=268"},"modified":"2006-06-20T16:07:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T15:07:34","slug":"a-history-of-matching-tile-games-am-i-missing-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/06\/20\/a-history-of-matching-tile-games-am-i-missing-something\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Matching tile Games: Am I Missing Something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on an article about the most disrespected and despised game genre there is. That&#8217;s right, <em>matching tile games<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For that, I am looking at tracing the innovations and developments of the last 20 or so years. The following tree is an attempt at illustrating the lineages of gameplay innovations from roughly <em>Tetris<\/em> to <em>Chuzzle<\/em>. For each game you can see the year of publication plus the innovations of that game listed with a &#8220;+&#8221; to the side.<\/p>\n<p>Arrows mean &#8220;family resemblance and probably inspiration&#8221; &#8211; I will not attempt to verify that a specific game designer was inspired by a specific other game.<\/p>\n<p>Question: Am I missing a game that contributed to the history of matching tile games? Do you find the connections playsible?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Matching tile games v.14\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/matching_tile_games_v14.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"464\" id=\"image267\" alt=\"Matching tile game history v.14, small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/matching_tile_games_v14_small.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Matching tile games v.14\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/matching_tile_games_v14.gif\">Click here to open a larger version of the diagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on an article about the most disrespected and despised game genre there is. That&#8217;s right, matching tile games. For that, I am looking at tracing the innovations and developments of the last 20 or so years. The following tree is an attempt at illustrating the lineages of gameplay innovations from roughly Tetris &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/06\/20\/a-history-of-matching-tile-games-am-i-missing-something\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A History of Matching tile Games: Am I Missing Something?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}