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Tile Busters: Leaving The Reddest Ocean To Find A Blue Spot

Deconstructor of Fun

So, Spyke Games showed how ambitious they were from the start with one of the largest seed rounds the games industry has ever seen… Of course, to secure this type of investment, you need an extraordinary team with unique backgrounds, and Spyke Games had just that. Do you lack depth in your puzzle levels?

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Genres are Marketing Terms, and Your Advice is Bad.

The Bottom Feeder

I mean, Hidden Object Games barely even count as an activity. And yet, we know they are games, because they have “game” in the name. things about making and writing about games for 30 years is the patterns you get to see. My games, by the modern standard, look like absolute dogs. Match-3 RPG."

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Istanbul Gaming Summit 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

Kudos to Neil Long of Mobilegamer.biz for joining the event and writing the notes. Running through the market by genre, Kress noted that King has done quite well, but other genres had suffered badly, with strategy, RPG, match puzzle, and casino games all down double digits. Shooters got creamed”, too, he said – down 33%.

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