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

Deconstructor of Fun

We talked about the emerging Tile Match subgenre in a previous article and also deconstructed its first success story with Zen Match in another. Being located in Istanbul just like the original developer of Zen Match , Spyke Games must have been inspired by their success story. Thus, Tile Busters was born.

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Can Playrix' Puzzle Breakers Crack Zynga's Empires & Puzzles?

Deconstructor of Fun

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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Creating Hard Choices in Board Games (Tasty Humans Pt. 4)

Brand Game Development

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. 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. Is it worth taking that better tile at the expense of picking last next round?

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Creating the Perfect Board Game Scoring System (Tasty Humans Pt. 2)

Brand Game Development

Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I decided that the basic gameplay was going to involve filling up a grid with tiles. So how do you do it? So What Next?

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2021 Predictions #1 Puzzle Games Becomes the Top Grossing Genre on Mobile

Deconstructor of Fun

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. Puzzle Games in 2020 Puzzle, out of all of the genres and mobile, is the largest one when looking at IAPs only. It made $5.1

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Royal Match - The New King from Turkey?

Deconstructor of Fun

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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Growing Up with Board Games: The Power of Nostalgia

Brand Game Development

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. My Top 5 Games My “I’d rather clean the bathrooms” Games Board Games for Dating Marrying a Game Developer . Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Need help on your board game?

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