Balance Mechanics Puzzle Writing 
Game Refinery
MAY 4, 2023
We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together. This has led to some wildly unusual combinations.
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
It usually starts with a ‘think pad’, which is basically just a google doc where I write down anything to do with a specific game concept. I played around with a few ideas and one of them was a simple cube rolling puzzle game. So I made a shift in puzzle design to negate that. This is never a good thing.”
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Game Daily
AUGUST 29, 2023
Through a series of cookery puzzles and dialog choices, players are immersed in Tamil culture, and the family’s emotive saga. ” When I interviewed Abhi, I was thinking a lot about non-violent games for this GameDaily story we ran yesterday, and for an upcoming story I’m writing for The Economist.
Game Analytics
DECEMBER 5, 2022
This time, we’ll look at the top games that use storytelling as a core mechanic and show you that you don’t need sparkling design and intense gameplay to create a hit. 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.
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. Can Supercell succeed in this space?
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).
Deconstructor of Fun
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
And games haven't been the most value-driven industry in my opinion (referring to the abuse of addictive mechanics in games for profit, massive company layoffs to meet financial targets and the pressure on teams to deliver, leading to crunch and toxic behaviours, etc.). Will you make another puzzle game?”. These are valid questions.
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