Hidden object template
Five things in a picture drawn to hide them. Hidden Folks (Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg, 2017) hides them in a joke you can parse. Mystery Case Files (Big Fish Games, 2005) hides them in clutter. A list of fifty is a job, not a scene. The AI puzzle maker and the puzzle game maker are the family. The list of five is the design.
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What makes a hidden object
Hidden object: you find listed items in detailed scenes.
The games that set the standard are Hidden Folks (Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg, 2017), Mystery Case Files (Big Fish Games, 2005) and June's Journey (Wooga, 2017).
What the template starts with
The hidden object template starts with one busy scene and five items to find. That is the smallest version of the loop that defines the genre: scan the scene, spot the item, tick it off.
What to change first
Ask someone else to find the five without a glow. If they need the glow, the drawing is noisy rather than composed. Add a sixth only after the five are fair.
2D or 3D
The hidden object template starts in 2D.
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