Balance Mechanics Puzzle Tile 
Brand Game Development
JULY 1, 2019
Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. In my first Designer Diary post for Tasty Humans , I talked about the mechanics of dropping shapes (which represent the titular “Tasty Humans”) in order to fill up the stomach of the each player’s monster. So What Next?
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 10, 2021
Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. Thankfully, your faithful crew at DoF are here to try and help you make sense of it, well, at least the very specific part of it related to puzzle games. Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. It made $5.1
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Designer Notes
AUGUST 2, 2021
In the original version, one player discovered that the optimum strategy was to cover every fourth tile on the board with a city, a mind-numbingly boring strategy that was always the best choice. Namely, building an urban improvement and producing a specialist on any tile extend the city borders in all six directions.
Deconstructor of Fun
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. Playrix released Puzzle Breakers into soft-launch in late 2019. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile.
Designer Notes
MARCH 31, 2023
So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? Civ inherited this mechanic directly from Empire, a game from the 80s which had much of the same tile-based, turn-based combat as Civ but without the scope of all human history. New borders would come from tile specialists and urban improvement.
Deconstructor of Fun
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Together with Mishka, they discuss the highs and lows of Spyke Games, shining a spotlight on their latest sensation, Tile Busters. Rina attributes the success of Tile Busters, their second and most successful game to date, to an experiment gone right. Even if it is not your preferred genre choice. I couldn’t agree more.
Deconstructor of Fun
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Playrix is one of the powerhouses in the puzzle genre thanks to Gardenscapes and Homescapes’ current success. Retaining the acquired users with a mini-game : If the hero creative/or playable ad involves a fake gameplay, it is added as a minigame to the events or core mechanics until the player is hooked in with the real in-game content.
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