Brand Game Development

JUNE 25, 2019

Pattern building board games are really popular among the hobby board gaming crowd. Board Game Geek cites Azul , Sagrada , A Feast for Odin , and Quadropolis as pattern building board games. There is no satisfactory “10 steps to create a pattern building board game” guide out there. There are many, many more as well.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Match 3D 65 titles released in 2023 5 successful new releases 8% success rate In the 2022 report , we wrote about the interesting dynamics of the “Match-3: Tile” genre. Time-limited levels create time pressure that is unusual for meditative puzzle games. And in 2023, a related genre, “Match 3D”, gave an amazing performance.

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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.

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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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Brand Game Development

JULY 8, 2019

He, after all, created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! In my last Designer Diary for Tasty Humans , I talked about how I approached scoring based on the arrangement of tiles in each of the monster’s stomachs. His unedited original post can be found here.

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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. Betrayal at House on the Hill quickly builds suspense and excitement as players explore a haunted mansion of their own design, encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. Are you excited? Let’s get started.

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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. In many ways, Township has been the cornerstone for Playrix’s success as a title that allowed the company to build experience in live ops, analytics, and user acquisition. product management.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 20, 2019

Matchington Mansion is a top 5 puzzle game with raking in over $15M a month in net revenues. Puzzle is the biggest category on mobile while Match & Blast games is the biggest sub-category with $3Bn in 2018 revenues and almost 30% year-on-year growth. That’s a lot of work for so few….

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

The game achieves this by gradually increasing upgrade costs (and can get away with it since most upgrades feel meaningful) and by releasing new town halls, unlocking new levels of buildings and units (plus new ones). In the first quarter of 2020 Supercell soft-launched their second title with a puzzle core - Hay Day Pop.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

You have to very slowly build your reputation. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” If they start to want your game, that’s a good sign – desire. Next, they get on your website or Amazon with intention to buy – action. Marketing is a slow dance. This is how we attracted attention. Eat villagers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

To be worth releasing, Clash Mini not only has to become as effective at building LTV as Clash Royale but also introduce innovative gameplay that is able to engage veteran players. Externalization of the teambuilding , which is selected outside of the battle in a way to the deck building of Clash Royale. Clash IP diversification?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. Our partner ironSource builds technologies that help game developers take their games to the next level. In casual games overall, puzzle games account for just over 50% of all revenue for 2020.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

He, after all, created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! In my Tasty Humans Designer Diary posts so far, I have focused on the puzzle aspect of the game. The design process really started with the puzzle. Damage tiles take up room where you could have been scoring points.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

After all, he created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! There is also an escalation in strategy as the players fill up their boards by acquiring more and more Leader tiles. Each Leader tile provides an additional goal for how to maximize the “satisfaction” of their monster.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Allowing the player too much leeway to cram in as many cities as possible onto the map leads to many, many problems, but it’s especially a problem for games which adopt one-unit-per-tile as it reduces the space for maneuvering between cities, turning the map into a permanent traffic jam.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. So what did she want then?

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