This is Ana and me somewhere between Clutter V and Clutter VI. As you can see, I’m not Leon. Although a lot of Leon’s story uses facts from my own life, I didn’t once think about including my own face in the game (like some of the reviewers thought I did). There is an Ana, but she’s not that picture either. I called her Ana because of my Ana and Brazil, but that’s where the similarities end. That pic was taken about 8 years ago.
Joe is not Leon
Anyone who's played the original Clutter game knows a little bit about Joe. Joe is not Leon, but some of the details of Joe's life were worked into the story. Here are just some of the real facts of Joe's 65-Plus years of life.
Joe was born in a little town called Penacook N.H., a voting district of Concord N.H. but a separate town (population was about 3000 back then). Joe attended Immaculate Conception School until 6th grade and then attended Merrimack Valley High School. Joe decided to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Joe graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. Joe only took one computer course at RPI.Joe moved on to work at iWin creating the highly successful Mah Jong Quest I, II and III (and little game called Sproink). After leaving iWin at the end of 2009 to work on his own games he joined an Atlanta Slots/Gaming company beginning in 2011 and ending in 2013. Joe now devotes 100% of his time to Puzzles By Joe and The Clutter Series.
Joe, my husband and I LOVE the Clutter games and have played all of them several times. I especially enjoy the challenges of matching butterflies and matching eggs. Are you going to expound on this concept in future games? How about beetles? Or beads? Or fish? Or flowers? I love all the Clutter challenges, but now and then it’s nice to do one of these un-timed matching challenges. By the way, I’ve bought all the Clutter games on BigFish and they’re such a relief from their overwhelming catalog of dark, serious, depressing games about missing children and town terrors. Your games are beautiful, interesting, engaging, and spirit-lifting. Don’t ever stop making them! Thank you so much, Joe!
I feel like I’ve been playing for years but never get tired of playing and I’ve just recently noticed a few new “tiles? ” and it made me so happy! lol thanks How will we know when new games are available? I’m not real good with computers and high tech stuff so if something is weird that’s why
I’m a longtime Game fan, played all kinds of games on PS, Xbox and PC, love adventure games, then moved on to Hidden object games and now my new love is the Clutter games but what I’m writing about is where do I buy some pottery by your wife Ana ( fell in love during the Clutter Infinity,Joe’s Ultimate Quest Game)
Hi Stacy:
You can find her in a couple of places.
@analealpottery on Instagram or
search for AnasClayHouse on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/AnasClayHouse/
I’ll send this to you in an email as well.
Thanks for the compliments.
Joe
Joe – can you add more SML and Outside in Dragging to the next version???? I love these!!!!!!
Hi Shari:
Both will be a big part of Clutter 1000 (along with many new variations).
Joe
I may be in the minority, but I absolutely love the stockpile puzzles and the outside in puzzles…even more in silhouette. I’d love to see a stockpile done with flowers and/or potted plants, and one with book covers and/or comic covers, though I know those might run into copyright issues. I always liked the “line” puzzles with the tiles and blocks; those would also be fun in a stockpile situation. The only one that makes me crazy is the chaos levels…I tend to have issues with those since my eyes are not what they used to be, and the constant motion occasionally makes me unable to deal with finishing a puzzle. Can’t wait for the new one…but I’m having so much fun with Infinity that I can wait a while (not TOO long, though). How about a clothing stockpile? Shoes?