PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This year we featured over 20 brave game creators in our solo developers-series and we like to share some highlights. I’m not good with story telling or puzzle design, so combining some expertise would be nice.” Here at PreMortem.Games we have a great admiration for developers that go through a complete development cycle alone.

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Development Dev Indy Game Developer 257

Filmustage

JULY 31, 2023

Image source: IMDb.com Moreover, engaging audiences in documentaries is a tricky balance. Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" (2004) perfectly encapsulated this balance. Image source: IMDb.com Funding and distribution are the final pieces of the documentary puzzle. Collaborate with your team via the Team Access feature ?.

Art 52

Art Film Technology Editing 52

Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Players can join Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer as they embark on epic quests, solving intricate puzzles, facing dynamic combat challenges, and exploring breathtaking environments. It features stunning visuals, inventive weaponry, and gameplay advancements, making it one of the standout titles for the platform.

Graphics 52

Graphics Racing Entertainment Games 52

Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Reigns does a good job balancing this information while leaving enough mystery for unexpected twists. Horror in the Darkness is a text-based horror puzzle-esque game. Amirali Rajan’s A Dark Room proves that complex gameplay and a concoction of features aren’t always what you need to build a strong title. Is this a safe choice?

Horror 109

Horror Games Mobile Mobile 109

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Let’s take the popular example of Candy Crush Saga , a level-based puzzle game. Also, they must be creative and design innovative gameplay features that will set their games apart from the competition. Game designers work on concepts, systems, player progression, balancing and level design.

Game Design 84

Game Design Game Designer Art Prop 84

Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Going the extra mile with your game and adding in just a few more features or touches does make a difference. That doesn’t mean you should add features for the sake of it. And we reckon if Supercent threw in a couple of extra features and maybe a catchy tune, it would just take this title that extra mile. And explosions.

Mobile Gaming 98

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Mechanics 98

iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Also, they provide crucial feedback on game balance, user interface (UI), and gameplay. Also, understand the unique controls and features of the Nintendo platforms to ensure flawless Nintendo testing. These testers spend many hours playing unreleased and new Nintendo games.

Quality Assurance 52

Quality Assurance Platformer Communications Console 52

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The mobile hit Empires and Puzzles (E&P) by Small Giant Games (acquired by Zynga) has made over $600M in net-revenues while racking up around 60 million installs. While there have been numerous clones and follow up titles trying to get a piece of the ever growing puzzle RPG pie, none of them has had any meaningful success.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Tile Mechanics Build 52

Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

Limiting city counts has many gameplay benefits, such as more predictable victory point thresholds based on cities, better balanced per-city bonuses, more consistent city value weights for the AI, and a generous minimum distance between cities to allow breathing room for one-unit-per-tile combat.

Tile 52

Tile Build Mechanics Prototyping 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. The match 3 success trifecta generally consists of: a fun core match mechanic a good metagame with a clean sense of progression a new feature or innovation that brings something different to the space. The Twist: The Puzzle Pass.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mechanics Content Data 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

An exciting exception could be a slick hybrid featuring an UltraCasual core game, connected to a meaningful metagame with actual power progression. This is in line with the current rise in popularity of games with the equally satisfying Merge mechanic in the puzzle genre. style Hypercasual gameplay as featured in Crowd City or agar.io

Mechanics 52

Mechanics Puzzle Advertising Studios 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. Empires and Puzzles regularly takes the top spot in Puzzle RPG category in the West (when Dokkan is having a post event hangover).

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Build Feature Balance 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the last and, the most important piece of the “scaling” puzzle focusing on the nothing less than the game that is being promoted and the teams that are promoting it. The key to success is balancing IPM and LTV, and making sure that the gains on the IPM side are higher than the losses on the LTV side of the equation.

Games 52

Games Mobile Mobile Art 52

Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

Villagers are not a specific innovation of Everdale , since they also feature in Family Island - and of course an integral part of the iconic Settlers franchise, which has clearly been an inspiration title for the team. Nevertheless, Everdale is not a placement puzzle like a typical city-building game. The Villagers.

Simulation 52

Simulation Build Balance Mechanics 52

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The misleading ad push was succeeded by the famous "Pull the pin" puzzle-style ads that put Evony and Hero Wars on the map in the past few years. The audience that was looking for a slightly different type of puzzle gameplay, the gameplay that was featured in the ads they were clicking on. Since its launch in February 2021.

Mobile Gaming 132

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Puzzle 132

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Clash Quest is Supercell’s most recent attempt at disrupting the puzzle category through titles like Smash Land , Spooky Pop, and Hay Day Pop , each of them trying to achieve success from different angles. Clash Quest 101 In terms of gameplay, Clash Quest can be categorized as a blast-based midcore Puzzle game with some RPG components.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mechanics Content Dev 52

Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art. Charles Lee (Art Lead) , veteran art director and concept artist with past experience at Blizzard , Sony Pictures Animation , and who until very recently worked in the Visual Development of Netflix hit Arcane (damn!).

Studios 52

Studios Mobile Mobile Console 52

Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Playrix is one of the powerhouses in the puzzle genre thanks to Gardenscapes and Homescapes’ current success. Playrix has been trying out many interstitials, banners, videos and playable ads based on solving puzzles/saving animals by moving the pins in the right order. product management. Let’s look at Township as an example.

Co-op 52

Co-op Puzzle Games Mechanics 52

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Yet, the real game-changer came when they borrowed a fraction of these strategies and applied them to an entirely new puzzle game. Drawing from their experiences at Peak Games, where they excelled in multiplayer games like cards and board games, they also honed their skills in creating accessible puzzle games, such as blast or match 3.

Tile 64

Tile Co-op Games Puzzle 64

Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

System The system design of the game and the in-game stats balance demonstrate Devsisters’ high standards. While allowing players to switch between the two main patterns of playing, the game also introduced fresh and interesting systems and features at the right time to keep players' interest at a high level.

Baking 52

Baking Simulation Build Animation 52

Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature. We’ve updated the blog post with new battle pass implementation examples and best practices for introducing the feature into your mobile game.

Mobile Gaming 83

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Co-op 83

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Plan content looping during the feature design phase. Another example is the 'Puzzles' collection mechanics, where the player farms puzzle pieces in hard match-3 levels to assemble pictures. So we decided to loop the puzzles at the same time as adding new ones. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics.

Mechanics 98

Mechanics Content Puzzle Mobile Gaming 98

Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

The fact that Battle Passes have been successful on audiences so alien to each other like MOBAs and Match-3 Puzzle fans shows how versatile its design can be. Passes can generate different player experiences, follow a different balance, and emphasize different components depending on the genre and audience. Enjoy from the links below.

Content 52

Content Mechanics Balance Mobile 52

Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Similar to the mechanics of Genshin Impact, the player explores the vast open-world by climbing on the walls, swimming in the rivers, gliding in the skies, wiping out enemies, and solving different kinds of puzzles. Tower of Fantasy also has a balanced PvP mode, Apex League, with a seasonal ranking system and rewards for the best player.

Fantasy 52

Fantasy Co-op Open World Feature 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Small Giant did it with Puzzle and Empires. This makes RPGs the third-largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.0Bn) and Puzzle ($5.1Bn) games. We break down RPGs into 6 sub-genres based on games’ features and core gameplay. Meanwhile Playrix’ Puzzle & Conquest seems to be on the track scaling very nicely.

Cross platform 52

Cross platform Mobile Mobile Platformer 52

Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Indeed, worker automation has become a standard, expected feature in latter Civ games because players know that these constant, low-stake decisions become boring quickly. Indeed, undo turned out to be one of our most popular features – it was often one of the 3 or 4 bullet points listed in the pro column for reviews.

Tile 98

Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 98

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Running through the market by genre, Kress noted that King has done quite well, but other genres had suffered badly, with strategy, RPG, match puzzle, and casino games all down double digits. Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix.

Games 59

Games Cross platform Mobile Mobile 59

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. A very polished cross-platform card battler featuring champions from League.

Mobile 52

Mobile Mobile Cross platform Puzzle 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

The challenge here is to design features that won’t alienate Riot fans - a sizable and very vocal group. This balance opens the game up to several strategies as to how to play the game. The challenge with TFT is to design features that won’t alienate Riot fans - a sizable and very vocal group. A new way to engage.

Fighting 52

Fighting Games Mechanics Balance 52

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Some game designers focus on combat balance, using spreadsheets and simulations to provide challenges without impossibility. Technical artist - Balancing creative and technical skills, technical artists liaise between artist and programmer teams to help problem-solve and bridge the two departments.

Film 52

Film Animation Animation Concepts 52

Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

For example, keep it simple for an older player of a casual puzzle game versus a hardcore gamer who understands managing resources and more complex systems Game economists must be careful to balance monetization techniques without blocking the fun. Each different game audience needs a different economy.

Mobile 52

Mobile Mobile Balance Mobile Gaming 52

Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

For Beta 12 I decided to include it on the patron feature voting list, and… it won. Sample Garrison interior layout (major features labeled), under the old system first introduced in 2015. This always felt like a kind of side project though, one which could be small (doesn’t live up to the potential?)

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Beta Content Balance Mechanics 52

Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

none of Dishonored's morality system and I think this is good, the "stealth puzzle = humane cage free assassination" philosophy has aged poorly imo 69% less stealth. and I think this balance tuning is intentional. Very streamlined, much faster, low stakes, and often just setting up the inevitable ensuing gunfight. Loadout is 3 guns.

Fighting 52

Fighting NPC Puzzle AI 52

Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

I want to know if there is some specific structural quality that is shared by Chess and Go and Poker and Bridge and Magic: the Gathering, some recognizable topological feature of their state space terrain. Could it be that one of these features simply is the property we’re looking for? So what exactly are these features?

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Feature Terrain Baking Games 40

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Clash Mini features several mechanics aiming for conversion (content bundles, battle pass…) but no reasons to pay repeatedly. On top of a smaller board, Clash Mini features no equipment system, no stat-based synergy system, no shared pool of units and a simplified balance logic of unit selection rolls and resources.

Content 52

Content Mechanics Point and Click Mobile 52

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

We will see more aggressive addition of meta, social features and live-ops events combined with potential franchise tie ups. More importantly Miniclip has been incrementally adding new meta, social and chance based features YoY to the game, using genre blending methods. On the other hand, downloads are much more evenly balanced.

Racing 52

Racing Games UX Mobile 52

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. No downtime, renewed fun in each game and perfect balance regardless of the number of players.

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Tile Point and Click Games Art 130