Mechanics Puzzle Studios Tile 
Game Refinery
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
If executed correctly, introducing new mechanics in this way can be an easy win, enabling developers to test out player preferences, broaden motivational appeal, boost user acquisition, and enhance player engagement – all without drastically altering the core gameplay. What’s particularly interesting about this archetype is its rarity.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 10, 2021
Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. Thankfully, your faithful crew at DoF are here to try and help you make sense of it, well, at least the very specific part of it related to puzzle games. Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. It made $5.1
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Deconstructor of Fun
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Just when the market was becoming overheated with the lockdowns and merge mechanics were the all-new rage among the players. The game looked promising, scaling quickly towards $2M a month in revenue - a promising number for a smallish Finnish studio. You decided how much time you'd spend swapping tiles or tending to your flowerbeds.
Deconstructor of Fun
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. Playrix released Puzzle Breakers into soft-launch in late 2019. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile.
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.
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.
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. Designing a Tile Match level When designing puzzle levels, one of the initial goals should be to ensure that players can easily recognize patterns.
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