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Tile Busters: Leaving The Reddest Ocean To Find A Blue Spot

Deconstructor of Fun

We talked about the emerging Tile Match subgenre in a previous article and also deconstructed its first success story with Zen Match in another. Thus, Tile Busters was born. Before delving into the game and its details, it is worth noting how the metagame of Tile Busters is constructed. And pivot that they did.

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Even older hypercasual games break into the Top 10 in Q1 2023

PreMortem.Games

Top 10 Games By Downloads The top 10 downloaded games of Q1 2023 shows a couple of old-timers that don’t want to give up their positions: Going Balls , Bridge Race , Car Games 3D: Car Racing , Tall Man Run and Race Master 3D – Car Racing. You can read about these games in more detail here.

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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Can Boost Engagement In The Casual Puzzle Genre With Competitive 1v1 Events

Game Refinery

While this match3 title also follows the same basic format, pitting two players against each other who race to use the most boosters over a set period, it twists the formula by incorporating a simple progression reward system. A more unusual example is the 1v1 competitive event Puzzle Duel in their other casual puzzler, Toy Blast.

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Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

As one might have expected, we can see several oldies on our list: Bridge Race , Going Balls , Race Master 3D – Car Racing and Car Games 3D: Car Racing. Time-sensitive touch Next in our selection is Piano Star: Tap Music Tiles with 25.7M Tiles Hop: EDM Rush!,

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Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

Rivals are supposed to win the slot-cars-like race set in a variety of worlds. To recreate the feeling of slot car racing the camera is set above the track, but using perspective view caused problems with visibility. Every part must be set accordingly to the tiles, that size is 30x30x10. Background.

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The 2020 Holiday Shopping Guide for Board Game Lovers

Brand Game Development

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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A Crash Course in Board Games

Brand Game Development

Remember that no marathoner ever finished a race before sweating and huffing through their first belabored mile many months – or years – prior. ” That means card games, dice games, miniature games, and tile-based games also fall under the purview of what is frequently called “board games.” What is a game?

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