Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This time, we’ll look at the top games that use storytelling as a core mechanic and show you that you don’t need sparkling design and intense gameplay to create a hit. Three Minute Games also included a time mechanic to make it feel even more realistic. Horror in the Darkness is a text-based horror puzzle-esque game.

Horror 109

Horror Games Mobile Mobile 109

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Casual Games in 2022 In our taxonomy, built together with Sensor Tower, the casual games category is divided into seven genres: Puzzle, Hypercasual, Arcade, Tabletop, Simulation, Lifestyle, and Geolocation. Puzzle Games The King is Back. Outside of Merge, 2021 felt a bit empty with respect to new puzzle games.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile 52

iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Suppose you are designing artwork for a puzzle game, a minimalist art style with simple shapes and clean lines will suffice as they assist players in concentrating on the gameplay. For example, acceptance criteria may state that tank fighting mechanics function as intended in 98% of test encounters.

Mobile Gaming 52

Mobile Gaming Art Mobile Mobile 52

iXie gaming

JUNE 23, 2023

One of the key advantages for game developers lies in the ability to explore and implement innovative gameplay mechanics that take full advantage of the unique features offered by wearables. There is also a growing use of VR in language learning games to simulate authentic environments for language practice.

Technology 52

Technology Game Developer Game Development Development 52

CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I knew that if I could get the simulation capture process figured out in the City Sample Demo, I could make my own environment in the future and use the same workflow. I conducted research and gathered references of inspiring chase scenes and other Unreal artists' work. City Sample Demo 3D environment.

Cinematics 52

Cinematics Demo Engine Engineering 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

5 Simulation Games (revenue -18%, downloads +16%) Roblox , which brought well over a billion Dollars in 2021, declined by 27% in 2022 while not losing downloads. Overall, in the key Western markets, MMORPGs, Roguelikes, Merge and Puzzle genres largely bucked the recession in terms of revenue. Until next week. ?

Mobile Gaming 52

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Sandbox 52

Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

In other words, villagers are the pacing mechanisms in the game. Nevertheless, Everdale is not a placement puzzle like a typical city-building game. The lack of specialization and trading breaks the illusion of a simulation game. Research in Everdale is not a similar feature like in other simulation games.

Simulation 52

Simulation Build Balance Mechanics 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2024

With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. They had a specific take on the metagame, focusing on underserved male puzzle players, and built their visual style towards that goal instead of increasing production complexity. From Match-3 to 4X Strategy, most of the successful games adapted them in some shape or form.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Games Simulation Game Engine 52

Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

Players would navigate through various levels of traps, puzzles, and enemies to claim victory. While there wasn’t much of a story to this farming simulator, you had to learn to plant crops, grow livestock, and befriend other characters (non-player characters, or NPCs), in the game to move ahead. Final Fantasy VI Advance.

Games 52

Games Fantasy Fighting Graphics 52

Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. As a mobile game, how did Cookie Run: Kingdom accomplish this through its gameplay mechanics? What was Cookie Run: Kingdom ’s secret to success? Two key words - cuteness and mashup.

Baking 52

Baking Simulation Build Animation 52

Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. Overall, it is a more moody atmosphere that lends a sense of dread, and this goes along nicely with the hostile game mechanics players will be up against. Is the game simplistic and easy to understand, or are mechanics obscure and complicated?

Games 136

Games Mechanics Fantasy Art 136

Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Playrix is one of the powerhouses in the puzzle genre thanks to Gardenscapes and Homescapes’ current success. Retaining the acquired users with a mini-game : If the hero creative/or playable ad involves a fake gameplay, it is added as a minigame to the events or core mechanics until the player is hooked in with the real in-game content.

Co-op 52

Co-op Puzzle Games Mechanics 52

Game Refinery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

One of the most successful ways of doing this is by introducing meta elements – gameplay elements and mechanics from other game genres – into your game. How these renovation and construction elements are implemented in-game often varies according to the core gameplay mechanics and narrative nature of the game.

Mobile Gaming 52

Mobile Gaming Puzzle Mobile Mobile 52

Played with Fire

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Astronomical observatory simulator, manipulating telescope POV, rotating planets on lens display like dioramas or puzzle boxes, relaxing, immersive 360 experience in space, UX pillars: precision, real-time, comfortable distances, avoiding locomotion sickness. A reliable system of interaction for puzzle mechanics.

UX 52

UX Puzzle Animation Animation 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

In the first quarter of 2020 Supercell soft-launched their second title with a puzzle core - Hay Day Pop. On paper, Hay Day Pop seems like a smart move from Supercell: it’s a puzzle game for a simulation audience with a familiar character that got a face-lift. Hay Day Pop is Fishdom meet Hay Day with a tile blast mechanic.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mobile Mobile Mobile Gaming 52

Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We also saw the ragdoll effect when the enemy fell down which is created with the Simulate Physics node. We are finished with the mechanics of our game. So when we test the shooting now, this is how it looks like: Reloading The Gun. We also set the Enemy Died to true because the enemy has no more health left to be alive in the game.

Engine 52

Engine Engineering FPS Animation 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

While the “single-player market” may sound like an oxymoron, innovative games like Shop Titans and Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator tell stories through their in-game markets. A cold calculating trader would only care about the outcome, but human beings seem to love watching the outcome unfold - a puzzling topic for economists.

Games 52

Games Point and Click Asset Balance 52

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Coin Master truly innovated on a core Casino mechanic by making random chance just one block in the core loop, not the only block. This can be seen in the image below, where Simulation, Merge Puzzle and MOBA titles from Big Fish and Plarium are currently in soft-launch. More on this in our 2020 Puzzle predictions post.

Mobile 52

Mobile Mobile Feature UX 52

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. NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e.

Fighting 52

Fighting NPC Puzzle AI 52

Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

Leave it another Finnish team to build some truly innovative gameplay mechanics in their action strategy title, Battle Legion. Save for a few unicorns ( Fortnite , AFK Arena ), the genres and game mechanics feel to me largely unevolved. If you choose to employ a different strategy, you completely re-organize your team and your units.

Games 52

Games Mechanics Mobile Mobile 52

Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

This is the first piece of the puzzle — a founding team that is skilled in the art of designing highly addictive Hyper-casual core game experiences, while having the expert know-how of quickly validating marketability and scaling rapidly once globally launched. the second piece of the puzzle. Source: BoomBit website.

Balance 52

Balance Content Mechanics Mobile 52

Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

AI works perfectly well for these types of games as the mechanics themselves hinder diplomacy.) In fact, the event system doesn’t apply to the AI at all (we simulate the per-turn value of events for the AI as they tend to be positive on average) because we didn’t want to limit what events could do.

AI 52

AI Racing Tile Engine 52

Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. In my simulation code, men can have one of five sexual moods: Top, Bottom, VersBottom (Versatile), TrueVers, and Voyeur. However, Zugzwang is about interacting with a maze full of people, so here I simulate the police as distinct in-person agents who walk around.

Code 52

Code Educational Education Prototyping 52