Sirlin

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Fantasy Strike is an interesting case study in game balance for an asymmetric game. In some games I’ve worked on, I’m one of the experts (Fantasy Strike, Street Fighter HD Remix, Puzzle Fighter HD Remix). In other games, I’m not at all (Yomi, Puzzle Strike, Kongai) so I rely on players who have expert knowledge about balance.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. The fourth of these bank decks is Puzzle Pets. The creatures are the star of the show in Puzzle Pets. Most decks have a few creatures, but Puzzle Pets puts the emphasis on creatures.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 23, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. Puzzle Strike 2 is generally a system that creates the opportunity of miracle turns and comebacks. The second of these bank decks is Dinosize. Dinosize is home to big effects.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 20, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. Werewolf Claw letting you crash for 1 action rather than 2 like your basic crash gem is a huge bargain, and the drawback of adding a wound to your deck will only matter if the game goes long.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 29, 2022

Puzzle Strike 2’s expansion, called Bold Adventures, has four new community bank decks as well as 10 more characters. The third of these bank decks is Steam Crank. Steam Crank introduces a new mechanic: the chain combo. Many cards have a strip at the bottom with a “chain” ability.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Players can join Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer as they embark on epic quests, solving intricate puzzles, facing dynamic combat challenges, and exploring breathtaking environments. The addition of AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution 2 ensures a smooth and visually striking gameplay experience.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Another that scores 2 points for hand tiles that are diagonal from it. And, finally, one that scores 2 points for each boot tile in the same row or column. It would score 2 points for being diagonal from the hand leader tile. These elements combine to create the central puzzle of each turn in Tasty Humans.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales by Next Games. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t initially created for the Netflix Platform. So, technically Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t released in 2022. Which is a difficult balance to strike. It actually came out a year prior as a F2P title by Next Games.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). Codex was a huge hit at Fantasy Strike Expo, and is what most attendees played and talked about the whole time. It was originally from designer Tim Fowers of Paperback and Wok Star fame, but I'm adapting it to the Fantasy Strike universe.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

They both cost 2 gold, and they give you some decent defenders. You're basically able to play any spell from the other heroes on your team just by paying an extra 2 gold for it. In fighting game parlance, that's known as an "option select," which is also the name of a Puzzle Strike chip!) First, Injunction.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

To put the Strategy genre in proportion, it generates a whole Billion more than all Puzzle games combined. Though several puzzle genres do boast significant ad revenue streams, which bridge the gap in net revenue between the genres. 2 Dominated by Chinese publishers. If this was the strategy, it didn’t pan out.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 23, 2020

Before talking about Game of War, Star Trek Fleet Command and Mobile Strike, let’s talk about this magnificent genre known as Strategy. That’s over a Billion more than puzzle games , which is the second largest genre in terms of revenue. Lords Mobile lost its leading position, but the fall from grace had it simply drop from #1 to #2.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Create an account 2. Over the past ten years, it has not stopped evolving and innovating, with top games beginning with Summoners War (OG), to the Dota Arena and Onmyoji in China , to RAID: Shadow Legends and Marvel Strike Force in the West. In the defensive team setting, each player can control 2/5 characters.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

TWIG #216 Ubisoft Staff Threatens to Strike over 4-Day Work Week / Laying out the Bull case for Mobile ? 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. Signups liver January 25th! The reveal itself can be engrossing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. Machine Zone’s Mobile Strike is one of the genre defining games in the 4X sub-genre.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

I wanted to continue this process but with a different type of space, a small dense interior -- so for this map, I've adapted the layout from fy_iceworld from Counter-Strike. The only hit scan monsters in this map are near the end, when I spawn 1-2 "arachnofloyds" (jumping lightning robot crabs) as a boss.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

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. Source 1: Aristocrat G2E 2019 Presentation Source 2: Aristocrat FY2019 Results. Asked differently, was Coin Master successful in bringing more users into the traditional Slots market?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 26, 2021

Netflix is not looking to diversify revenue by building hit F2P games or creating new, licensable brands ( strike one against June’s Ethan ). Next Games has soft-launched Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales, a free-to-play story-driven puzzle adventure RPG. Netflix games will start on mobile.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

you can't bank during a mission, so it forces you into 1-2 hour play sessions with no pause / load / save (it's multiplayer, remember) if you don't have uninterrupted 1-2 hour time windows to play this game. no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power). no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power).

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

We would like to highlight 2 key observations as we dive deeper into this analysis: Both categories (Sports & Racing) are dominated by only a handful of players owning the marketshare and driving the lion’s share of revenue and growth. Arcade sports revenue and marketshare for past 2 years has been heavily dominated by one game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Warcraft Rumble features an innovative progression meta, allowing players to build armies with leaders and troops and allows for almost unlimited gameplay which is interesting compared to other games in the genre such as Marvel Strike Force and Galaxy of Heroes etc. However where it differs is in the details.

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

These predictions are a team effort from me and my girlfriend Lina Jemili trying to work through it all together after Season 8, Episode 2. In the fiction of Fantasy Strike, the story world of the games I make, I face a similar dilemma. Here comes the other huge secret hidden in Season 8, Episode 1 and especially 2.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Warcraft Rumble features an innovative progression meta, allowing players to build armies with leaders and troops and allows for almost unlimited gameplay which is interesting compared to other games in the genre such as Marvel Strike Force and Galaxy of Heroes etc. However where it differs is in the details.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

Similar to Heroes Charge, Puzzles and Dragons, Empires and Puzzles, Idle Heroes, Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, Legendary, and Marvel Strike Force. Eventually you aren’t making progress in this mode and are instead pushed to play in other modes (or pay) 2. These heroes can be any level, but must be apart of certain factions.

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