Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Welcome, beautiful creatures! In-tact and broken Amulets.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Hello, dear friends and fantasy aficionados. This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Thanks for tuning in to another exciting issue of the Kristala dev blog!

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

It takes lots of inspiration from Hay Day while introducing a whole new IP based on a cute fantasy world unrelated to any other Supercell franchise. But what’s unique is that an actual villager needs to be assigned to the crafting building or construction site to finish the task. It’s not possible to automate the production.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the official Kristala dev blog, where we break down the development process for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala each month. If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. Why, you might ask? Kristala at Play NYC 2021. Concept Art.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team. We want to build ambitious games players may not expect from Supercell. After 12 months of silence, the team of founders has been revealed. One could wonder if this makes Ryan a bold choice to lead the studio.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Greetings, friends and fantasy aficionados! Once the base set is completed, Nick will then build upon it to create the cloaked version and accompanying helmet featured on the left to fully complete this gorgeous set. He's been working behind the scenes for the past few weeks to get familiarized with our game build in Unreal Engine 4.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom. Create an account 2. Two key words - cuteness and mashup.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

As I’ve gone through the Final Fantasy series recently , it’s notable that the games used to have secrets, and now, they pretty much don’t anymore. This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. What are secrets in videogames?

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. There were creative worlds such as MOOs where anyone could build anything. All the content in the game was just data in fields. Highly narrative, intricate puzzles, and immersive storytelling.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

Call of Duty Mobile, for example, was down 40M downloads YoY) Sniper (Sniper 3D led the decline with a drop of over 30M compared to the last year) Build & Battle (decline across the board with Castle Clash, Forge of Empires and Boom Beach leading the way). If this was the strategy, it didn’t pan out. 4 High entry barrier.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Although this is typically the only place where you can get a monthly peek into all the development that goes into Kristala—a 3D dark fantasy ARPG from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—things will soon be changing. Ready to see how things are going now in the fantasy world of Ailur? Let's dive in. Concept Art. 3D Character Design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The biggest news items of the year are Meta losing $15 billion in trying to build a metaverse and the collapse of FTX , which hopefully but not likely is the last gigantic crypto collapse we see ( Binance is reportertly struggling as well). We did call out AppLovin as the biggest winner of 2021 applauding their content fortress strategy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. 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.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). The first official gameplay trailer for Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala. Behold, friends!

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. You are a fantasy monster trying to sate your insatiable appetite. Additional points come to those who can fulfill their Destination Tickets by connecting two distant cities, and to the player who builds the longest continuous railway.

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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. Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it. And it was.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

This deconstruction is written by: Michail Katkoff , Adam Telfer , Florian Ziegler & Alexandre Mcmillan Core Loop and Gameplay AFK Arena is a best in class turn-based-RPG, which builds upon the standard best practices of the genre while innovating lightly in the core gameplay and core loop. It rarely gains player the power they desire.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. Can we build a sex dungeon that would do Jane Jacobs proud?

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