Developer details Octupuz puzzle app creation, emphasizing extensive pre-code specification

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Developer Panth, who leads software at Oizom, built the Octupuz puzzle game app in about a month as a personal project. Before writing code, the project's specification was a detailed 849 KB JSON document outlining 72 screens, 23 components, and animations researched from Instagram. The app presents a social feed similar to Instagram, but every post is an interactive puzzle, with 41 live game types including Queens and Nonogram. It is currently a web-based Progressive Web App accessible at octupuz.in, with plans for a Play Store release. The backend, built on Supabase, is designed to store only social data and game bundle paths, leaving puzzle logic and generation entirely to client-side game code.

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