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4 Lessons from Pandemic for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

A well-designed co-op game like Pandemic stands out among the crowd. In my anecdotal experiences, a new co-op game almost always gets a “ooh, it’s a co-op!” Force players to balance tactics and strategy. Pandemic forces you to balance tactics and strategy.

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12 Ways to Take Battle Passes to the Next Level in Mobile Games

Game Refinery

Battle passes for different player types – Dragon Ball Legends Dragon Ball Legends offers players a variety of gameplay modes, from a single-player story mode to co-op PvE events and competitive PvP. The social co-op battle pass – Top War The 4X strategy game Top War is a team-focused game where players create guilds.

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Tower of Fantasy – Is the Game Really a Genshin Impact With a Social Twist?

Game Refinery

Both games have a massive open-world to explore and support co-op features, but Tower of Fantasy has a bigger focus on social elements and makes the process of playing with other players smoother than Genshin Impact. Tower of Fantasy: Co-operative challenges in the open-world. How is the genre shift shown in the game?

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Tower Pop seeks to reinvent tower defense

Game Daily

But Omega Royale, which began development three years ago, will be a ten-player fight to the death, in which players individually take on waves of enemies, but must also send baddy boosts against human players. PixelJunk Monsters 2 and Orcs Must Die’s sequels added a focus on co-op play.

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