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Five Artists Bring Their Work to Puzzle Together

Five amazing artists have shared their work with Puzzle Together, bringing over 100 new puzzles to the game!

To choose from these new puzzles, select "Start a Puzzle" from the menu, then choose "Show: By Artist." You can then either show puzzles by "All Artists" or choose one of the artists to look through only their work.

The five artists have diverse styles and backgrounds, and they bring a wealth of beautiful imagery that makes for challenging and enjoyable jigsaw puzzles.

Shwippie is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design who works as a freelance illustrator in Los Angeles. Her inspirations come from a mix of Eastern and Western fairy tales. She began making computer games in 2011.

The Wolf's Dream by Shwippie

Victoria Pendragon is a painter and an ordained metaphysical minister who is often immersed in thoughts of who we are and how we came to be -- of the concept of our being, as the song says, "spirits in the material world."

Ferocious Beauty by Victoria Pendragon

Teal Furnholm is a biologist who spends her days unraveling the secrets of the genome, and her evenings working toward ordination as a Buddhist dharmachari. She loves to be surrounded by nature, and this passion shows through in her photography.


Look Up by Teal Furnholm

Cathy Leavitt is a self taught artist living in the mountains of Vermont. She is a wife and mother who finds inspiration in her children and nature. Many of her paintings feature women and children and their relationship to the natural world.


Untitled work by Cathy Leavitt

Zach Shukan is a graduate of RISD who has worked as an artist in the video game and special effects industries. His often whimsical work strives for deep understanding and an innovative perspective, in technique as well as in design. He's contributed both digital paintings and photography to Puzzle Together.

Arterial Glass by Zach Shukan

Update Notes for 7/16/21

- Added ability to list puzzles by all artists
- Right click no longer brings up Sort options if they were disabled by the host.
- Holding down the shift key now lets you draw the selection box
- Fixes to reduce random disconnections

Update notes for July 2

- Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause Sort by Color not to work correctly,
- Added the option under "Start Puzzle" to show a list of all purchased puzzles.

Move and Sort Groups of Pieces

Today's update makes it much easier to move a large group of pieces, and makes it possible to sort just a group of pieces rather than all of them.

Here's how it works:

At the top of the screen is a new "Select" button. Press this button, then drag out a box around those pieces you want to select.



The selected pieces will glow yellow.

You can then move all the selected pieces together as a group!

Also, if you perform a sort (by edges, color, or section) while pieces are selected, the sort will only apply to the selected pieces. So, you can now sort just the pieces in the section of the puzzle you're working on, or sort by color from just the edge pieces, etc.

Tips:
  • Instead of pressing the "Select" button first, you can just hold down the Control key while you drag out a box around the pieces you want to select.
  • Once you have pieces selected, you can add to the selection by dragging out another box.
  • Click anywhere on the table to deselect your selected pieces.

Better, Stronger, Faster

Today's update focuses on optimization. 3D models now draw faster, and textures take up less memory. Graphics effects now turn off when not needed. A major memory leak has been fixed, which will prevent slowdowns and crashes. A new graphics option has been added, "3D Pieces", that defaults to on but can be turned off to get better performance on older machines. Overall this update should give you better framerates and a cooler CPU.

Also:
  • On the Start Puzzle page, the "Open to Public" checkbox has been replaced with a dropdown menu with the options "Open to Public" and "Invitation Only", to make it clear that you can still invite friends to puzzles that aren't open to the public.
  • The glow effect for selected pieces now works differently, to prevent it from slowing down the game.
  • Updated some text translations.