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Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game

Radiator Blog

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. Gone Home anchors its story focus with voice acting, narration, simpler puzzles, and wry realism. There are 9 puzzles. Which means this isn't just a puzzle game.

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Royal Kingdom: Will it Usurp the Throne or Just be a Royal Relative?

Deconstructor of Fun

Dream Games has joined that list by bolstering its hold on match-3 puzzles and widening its already mass-market audience through the addition of its newest game, Royal Kingdom , which features one of the smoothest casual PvP designs in the market. King Robert (left) and King Richard (right). Wonder how they will expand their Royal-verse.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success. This chapter will investigate the art of Cookie Run: Kingdom , its origins, its characteristics, and its efforts to expand into new markets during globalization. Art Style To talk about the characteristics of this art style, we must start at its origin.

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Top gamification examples in mobile apps

Game Analytics

They’re masters in the art of keeping users engaged and happy. Mix in quizzes and puzzles. Unless this feature is baked into your core and players expect it, no one wants to sit around for half an hour doing an intensive quiz. It’s possible to learn while having fun. In fact, that’s exactly what some apps are doing.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. That, slapped on with some vibrant colours, cute art style, and upbeat music, made playing this game a treat. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales by Next Games. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t initially created for the Netflix Platform.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #27

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Once considered a thriving mecca for Anagativan art and entertainment, the Nisargan city of Nasahara was set ablaze during the Great Kota Rebellion, forcing its frightened denizens to flee the city they call home in search of safety and solace. link] Concept Art. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #35

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Kristala does feel like a traditional indie Soulslike game in many ways, but we've also lovingly baked in a ton of elements that will appeal to fans of other genres too. Concept Art. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. and they're not wrong. link] [link] Kristala Original Soundtrack.

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