Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In Tasty Humans , points are earned by monsters for eating people and arranging their body part tiles in certain ways in the monster’s stomach. There are limits to exactly how you can place tiles, and you don’t always get what you want. Energy use keeps you from playing all the strongest, best cards at one time.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It’s a tile-placement, puzzle-solving board game for 1-4 players about villagers attacking monsters. So we followed this basic process for the box, boards, rules, cards, and tiles. Tasty Humans is the latest, and in my opinion, the greatest creation of Pangea Games. Except it’s from the monsters’ point of view!

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2023

So, in the never ending search for the next blue ocean, there is a new stop: Tile Match. Still, let’s examine what constitutes a Tile Match game. What is and is not a Tile Match? Tile Match is actually a pretty intuitive name. Each level consists of tiles stacked on top of each other.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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. You decided how much time you'd spend swapping tiles or tending to your flowerbeds.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2019

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. The mechanics that were chosen for the initial game – tile placement, variable player powers, and so on – all screened well with an audience. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I realize that I could just try and solve the crime without moving the puzzle piece around, but there is something so satisfying about hearing the dice roll and getting to click-clack your piece around the board. And don’t even think about moving the played wild card when switching tiles around; that’ll get a flipped table for sure.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 15, 2020

A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” When additional text is required, as with Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest, a simple, straightforward description of the game goes a long way. We got a really good response with the following copy for Tasty Humans : “Become a monster. Eat villagers.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 25, 2019

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?” All I knew is I wanted some sort of spatial puzzle that ultimately determined the monster’s satisfaction. It made more sense that way.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Match 3D 65 titles released in 2023 5 successful new releases 8% success rate In the 2022 report , we wrote about the interesting dynamics of the “Match-3: Tile” genre. Time-limited levels create time pressure that is unusual for meditative puzzle games. And in 2023, a related genre, “Match 3D”, gave an amazing performance.

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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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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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Tile Co-op Games Puzzle 64

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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Brand Game Development

JULY 8, 2019

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 Leader Tiles provided a lot of variety in the tactical decisions while trying to maximize your score. In Tasty Humans, you never simply play a single tile.

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Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? Civ inherited this mechanic directly from Empire, a game from the 80s which had much of the same tile-based, turn-based combat as Civ but without the scope of all human history. New borders would come from tile specialists and urban improvement.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. But every tile that you claim affects what your rivals can take next. Are you excited? Hobby Board Games.

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Tile Point and Click Games Art 130

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. In Azul , 2 to 4 players will collect tiles and tile their 5×5 grid in a way that allows them to get the most points. Players take turns drawing from factory tiles in the middle.

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Game Design Game Designer Tile Art 130

Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Playrix is one of the powerhouses in the puzzle genre thanks to Gardenscapes and Homescapes’ current success. Playrix has been trying out many interstitials, banners, videos and playable ads based on solving puzzles/saving animals by moving the pins in the right order. product management. Let’s look at Township as an example.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 20, 2019

Matchington Mansion is a top 5 puzzle game with raking in over $15M a month in net revenues. Puzzle is the biggest category on mobile while Match & Blast games is the biggest sub-category with $3Bn in 2018 revenues and almost 30% year-on-year growth. 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. Tasty Humans is the latest, and in my opinion, the greatest creation of Pangea Games. Except it’s from the monsters’ point of view!

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Games Writing Tile Puzzle 130

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.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” This is how we attracted attention. We were very careful about how we worded each ad and social media post. We usually said something to the effect of “Become a monster. Eat villagers. ” This pitch piqued Interest.

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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. Early revenue per download data shows that it outperforms other Classic Match-3 titles and is as strong as full Puzzle & Decorate games, suggesting that players like the direction. It made $5.1

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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

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. Players weren’t just drafting which tile they wanted most; they were also picking their turn order for the next round. Cathala leveraged a simple twist.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

There is also an escalation in strategy as the players fill up their boards by acquiring more and more Leader tiles. Each Leader tile provides an additional goal for how to maximize the “satisfaction” of their monster. They have just a single Leader tile and their monster’s unique “personal craving.”

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Allowing the player too much leeway to cram in as many cities as possible onto the map leads to many, many problems, but it’s especially a problem for games which adopt one-unit-per-tile as it reduces the space for maneuvering between cities, turning the map into a permanent traffic jam.

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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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