Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. It’s been an extraordinary privilege of mine to work with Ryan Langewisch, the designer of the game as well as Tyson Mertlich, the developer who helped make the magic happen so early on. But my role?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

After a year of development, Tasty Humans raised $20,536 on Kickstarter. It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Mid-Development.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

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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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Futureplay, the developer behind Merge Garden, was acquired by Plarium in August of 2021. Merge Dragons never strayed from merge mechanics and exclusively contained puzzles that players could solve by merging various items. The core gameplay was true and tested Match-3 puzzle while the meta game was merge inspired.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Once players show interest in something you've created, many game developers worldwide quickly become "inspired" by your game. While finding the blue ocean is the enduring hot topic for game developers, staying relevant as that ocean turns red is a rare and more valuable skill to possess. What is and is not a Tile Match?

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In this research, we explore the main trends that shaped the market last year and try to answer the questions above by finding potential opportunities for developers in 2024. We distinguish more than 300 genres in total in our most developed genre classification in the world.

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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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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

A couple of months ago, I asked the readers of this blog to send in answers to the question “ what confuses you most about board game development ?” Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.”

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 25, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Out of nowhere, a thought popped into my head: “what if you were still monsters eating adventurers, but the game was all about dropping them into a puzzle that represented the monster’s stomach?” Need help on your board game? Background of Tasty Humans.

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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

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. 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. The constraint helps to cover squares in the grid that weren’t affect by any Leader Tiles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Christmas 2022 was made very special for some as Moon Active announced the acquisition of the casual puzzle game Zen Match for as much as $150M. It is hard to say if this acquisition of a single game hints at a future deal where Moon Active acquires the game’s developer, similar to Zynga's acquisition of Peak.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. Are you excited?

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? It somehow even won a Grammy award, for Baby Yetu, by my college roommate Christopher Tin, which was definitely not even on the radar when we developed the game. New borders would come from tile specialists and urban improvement. somewhere in the comments.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Like Sagrada , it’s a gorgeous and approachable puzzle game with emergent complexity that becomes ever more apparent with more plays. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Players take turns drawing from factory tiles in the middle. Azul has taken the board game world by storm.

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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. Their performance marketing teams are clearly involved in the product development process and seem to even sometimes give direction based on the market trends to maximize the acquisition of new players. product management.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 20, 2019

And finally, it’s because Matchington Mansion is a game from an unknown developer that has no previous shipped titles and has only three people who have worked or are working at Firecraft Studios. Matchington Mansion is a top 5 puzzle game with raking in over $15M a month in net revenues. That’s a lot of work for so few….

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. It’s been an extraordinary privilege of mine to work with Ryan Langewisch, the designer of the game as well as Tyson Mertlich, the developer who helped make the magic happen so early on. But my role?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

the Builder Base and its new core loop and gameplay) and spent real development time on quality-of-life improvements Stayed at the forefront of innovation (e.g., the “standard” format) Innovating with new game modes to encourage players to develop a broader collection. Hay Day Pop is Fishdom meet Hay Day with a tile blast mechanic.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Marketing is best understood as an ongoing process that breathes itself into everything you do as a self-publishing board game developer. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” Eat villagers. Kickstarter.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Other than that, the only gameplay layer that is quite unique to Clash Mini is the Special Boards that feature one tile with a special effect (grant healing, charge the special…). New game boards with Tiles that heal Minis or charge their Super abilities are some of the Tile modifiers unlocked through League progression.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

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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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Early in development, I realized that the game would be best if I could fit the experience into a 30-60 minute time frame. There is also an escalation in strategy as the players fill up their boards by acquiring more and more Leader tiles.

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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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