PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

That’s how I worked on the level design and puzzles in Raccoo Venture, for example. Although the levels often underwent changes after testing in the 3D environment, when you start to feel the dynamics of the level and the puzzles. Finally, maintain a healthy balance between work and rest.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

In addition, balancing his fifth year as a Computer Engineering student and a pivotal role at Avalon, an American-based software company was no small feat. While quenching his curiosity Olamide stumbled upon Encarta Kids, an enchanting encyclopedia brought to life through games, puzzles, and quizzes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

Especially with their two most recent titles Lily’s Garden and Penny & Flo , Tactile has been a stronghold for story-driven puzzle games with the collapse mechanic. Each level presents players with a puzzle to solve, and failing to notice items or power-ups can gradually increase that cognitive load and lead to frustration.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 23, 2023

Striking the right balance between marketing and game development is crucial, ensuring a unique and marketable product. However, finding out what to expect of wishlists conversion to sales remains a challenge, as Hogervorst acknowledges, “That’s the puzzle that even we haven’t cracked.”

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Solo dev Josh Salley (HALbot Studios) “I believe in keeping a good work life balance” Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company, but actually it’s a ‘one-man-band company’, as founder and CEO Nicola Piovesan calls it.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market – not just the hybrid-casual genre. In many respects, this change isn’t particularly surprising.

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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. Edward Snowden and Ewen MacAskill in Citizenfour (2014).

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Sirlin

APRIL 4, 2015

We talk about the design changes that address this as well as at least one tricky balance puzzle we faced. We talk about the design changes that address this as well as at least one tricky balance puzzle we faced. At the time of this post, Flash Duel is on kickstarter right now. Please support it if you can.

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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. Choice is limited – this is much more of a mystery and puzzle-type game. Is this a safe choice? What’s the risk like? Is my character in danger? Conflict: 10/10.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Let’s take the popular example of Candy Crush Saga , a level-based puzzle game. Game designers work on concepts, systems, player progression, balancing and level design. Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing.

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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.

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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. High sales on other platforms have contributed to massive post-launch success around the world. It’s a short narrative game about a Tamil family who immigrate to Canada.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Also, they provide crucial feedback on game balance, user interface (UI), and gameplay. To succeed in Nintendo testing, you must be prepared for many replays since Nintendo games often have hidden secrets and intricate puzzles. These testers spend many hours playing unreleased and new Nintendo games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. Their attempt with Spooky Pop likely informed some of the good decisions that led to HDP: balancing known wins and innovation, testing a recognizable and previously loved IP and following best practices from top casual games. Puzzle Pass.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But we know that if you get the player engaged or focused on something in the world – a puzzle or environmental storytelling -then they’re very susceptible to being suddenly scared. It’s about finding a balance, and definitely not repeating ourselves. We try to vary.

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Big Games

AUGUST 25, 2021

Therefore, the balance between simplicity and complexity is what is expected by the users, any game that satisfies this aspect is bound to succeed. Is It Easy To Balance Simplicity And Complexity? Ways Of Balancing The Game There are different ways in which you can balance a game.

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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. With a balanced mix of realism and accessibility, it features excellent handling, damage modeling, and a variety of cars and tracks.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales by Next Games. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t initially created for the Netflix Platform. So, technically Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t released in 2022. Which is a difficult balance to strike. It actually came out a year prior as a F2P title by Next Games.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 29, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. That said, there’s still a balancing act. The third of these bank decks is Steam Crank. Steam Crank introduces a new mechanic: the chain combo. Many cards have a strip at the bottom with a “chain” ability.

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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.

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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).

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

These elements combine to create the central puzzle of each turn in Tasty Humans. In the end, I tried to strike a balance between having mostly positional scoring effects but including universal effects. If you recall from my post on dropping shapes , there is also a lot of variation in how you can drop a new piece into your board.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Will you make another puzzle game?”. Some of the puzzle games I’ve worked on. Puzzles are one of the biggest market categories and it continues to grow each year. The puzzle market is at a saturation point where it is hard to compete head-to-head with companies with a solid track record like Playrix, King and Peak Games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

This is in line with the current rise in popularity of games with the equally satisfying Merge mechanic in the puzzle genre. That is why a large portion of ads shown in Hypercasual games are showing other Hypercasual games instead of e.g. puzzle games. On the other hand, Hypercasual game UA is targeting very broadly already.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

Nevertheless, Everdale is not a placement puzzle like a typical city-building game. This game is likely straightforward to balance, but it’s not very creative for the players to play. We’d be equally terrified to balance a more player-friendly game. The lack of specialization and trading breaks the illusion of a simulation game.

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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.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The discussion emphasizes balancing randomness to maintain fairness and enhance player satisfaction, sometimes even tweaking probabilities in the player’s favor to foster a sense of achievement and prevent frustration. 02:59) So if you know what you want to make, focus on that experience.

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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.

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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.

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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!).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

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. So this choice brings this event the needed level of complexity. This way, we can engage the player for longer.

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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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

System The system design of the game and the in-game stats balance demonstrate Devsisters’ high standards. Nice game balance For ease of development and support, stats expansion is commonly used in Team Battle RPG games and simulation games. Only a few balancing issues in some systems or features could be detected.

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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.

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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. Puzzle RPG Within the Puzzle RPG Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle continues to reign supreme powered by its strong home market of Japan, which brings over half of its +$600M a year revenues.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

A cold calculating trader would only care about the outcome, but human beings seem to love watching the outcome unfold - a puzzling topic for economists. For example, a balance patch to Skyweavers that changes the power (and thus price) of different cards will shake up the market considerably. The reveal itself can be engrossing.

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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.

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