Match the Pathern!
- from time-killer to strategic PX on consoles and PC

Are you passionate about puzzle games (Chess, Sudoku,
Tic Tac Toe, Rubik's Cube, Tetris, Mahjong, ...)?

It took years to find a way of transforming an innovative Combinatorial Mean concept into the meditative brainteaser, and pattern-matching series of games. The breaking point was a video talk with Amy Jo Kim (2016) and later accessing her 8-week GameAcademy Summer Masterclass 2019.  This deeply changed my understanding of how the games connect with players, what are their habits, and motivations, and how to find the hottest fans (superfans) to include them in the development process.

sQuaricon™ is the original IP game series of 5 pattern matching puzzles, but generally applies at any of pxp square boards.

Pass the sQuaricon

sQuaricon

Tic Tac Toe > Lo Shu > sQuaricon3
Match the Pathern

Clickers and Thinkers!

sQuaricon Game Series ©2006 is a chain of 5 skill-based, meditative, logic, and pattern-matching puzzles on the square game boards: sQ3, sQ5, sQ7, sQ11, and sQ13 connected by the same board mechanics.  


sQuaricon 3 5 7

welcome to 
NEW KID IN PUZZLE TOWN
Code and llustration: Vedran Sknjug

sQuaricon Games Company 


Play the 3rd ever-discovered game on 3x3 fields beside Tic Tac Toe and Lo Shu to enjoy short tricky sessions of this NEW KID IN PUZZLE TOWN.

sQuaricon.com is a game company with a mission to advocate the sQuaricon ©2006 as an original IP* and new game paradigm for the gaming world.

sQuaricon Game Series has published back in 2009. (CNET.com), or download the 2023. refreshed applets PC version


Contact: squaricon@squaricon.com 
listen my PLAYLIST

sQuaricon 5 Regular mode
(TAP to see)

sQuaricon 5
Casual Logic Game for Passionate  Players 

(illustration sQ5 in Regular Mode)

Code: Gordan Sikic, 2008, 2013, 2023


NOTE: All illustrations here are low-fi graphics, except where the artwork is specified

sQuaricon 7 ZEN mode

sQuaricon 7
Elusive Motion
(ZEN mode on demo gameboard trailer)

From Casual to the Mid-core Game for superfans 


Testimonials:


illustration: ZEN playing mode - Prototype 2009.

sQuaricon 11 Regular mode



sQuaricon 11, squaricon 13
Superfans' game: sQuaricon 11, 13  

illustration: prototype 2009. 

SOLO PLAYER - Tournaments
sQuaricon gameplay modes?

The game-design pack offers 5+ distinguished game scopes that could significantly enrich the overall players' experience:

Video author: Igor Puskaric

Let's pvp
sQuaricon games scope? 

sQuaricon Game Series fits to several game categories 

Watch platforms

sQ-3 fits a wide range of screen sizes, from iOS/Android watches to PC...  

Casual Puzzle for all screen sizes

     In 2016 we published the Memo Tiles, one of the first-ever games for Apple Watch.  As seen in the sQuaricon-3 illustration (left) simply arranged sQ3 gameboard may add some elegance to the small watch screens.

Right: sQuaricon logo by Jaroslav Procka

RETRO Redesign - test

background: Lenko Tomic Matulovic

background: Lenko Tomic Matulovic

Tondo Jigsaw 2014

The first project on the Unity platform with one original game concept of the rounded Jigsaw puzzle.
Above: art Marko Umicevic (2014), code in house
Download Android version

Rollin' Tiles 2016

Rollin' Tiles: abandoned project despite some good critics for innovation and clean UI as "it’s not going to be enough to generate a sustainable revenue stream" (Chillingo).
above: art Peter Simon, outsourcing; The Knights of Unity  (2016)

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sQuaricon Core Team Members

Marko Umicevic

Art Direction

Mr. Marko is a Fine Art Historian and Photographer. His latest work in games was on Rollin' Tiles that got exceptional attention from Chillingo's Developer relation director Levi Buchanan: "Really like the art direction and the clean UI"

Goran Bastinac
Music/Sounds for all sQuaricon Titles

Mr. Goran has a very rare and surprising talent to recognize dramatic moments even though the game scene is not fully visualized yet; moreover, he has a lot of useful ideas and shares them unselfishly. 


Igor Puskaric
Game art ,concept and animation 

Mr. Igor is a 2D and 3D Artist who specializes in digital art including hand painting, and organic and hard surface modeling. Everything from stylized art to photorealistic assets. 

Lenko Tomic Matulovic
2D/3D Artist

Mr. Lenko is a 2D and 3D Artist who specializes in digital art including hand painting, and organic and hard surface modeling. Everything from stylized art to photorealistic assets. 


Davor Umicevic

Community Manager

Mr. Davor has strong analytical skills to actively follow the changes in trends and preferences among the players' community. He will ensure smooth communication with the audience and superfans.  


Gordan Sikic

Freelancer, SW Engineer at Toptal

Mr. Gordan is programming the sQuaricon Game Series.

Goran Umicevic, Game Design

Mr. Goran specializes in brainteasers, logic puzzlers, and pattern-matching games with 15+ Years of learning and practicing in game design, now applying the Game Thinking method in the development improved on Amy Jo Kim's 8-week Game Thinking Masterclass 2019 (gamethinkingacademy.io). 

n-Queens Problem

He is an inventor and producer of the sQuaricon Game Series, which is at its core an original modular board algorithm for solving the prime-numbers' part of n-Queens problem.

(more on tiny.cc/CombMean)

A wonderful Concept Art by young Czech graphic designer Jaroslav Procka, 2017.