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Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game

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Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. Gone Home anchors its story focus with voice acting, narration, simpler puzzles, and wry realism. There are 9 puzzles. Which means this isn't just a puzzle game.

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

Game Refinery

This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features. Only 15% of casual puzzle games in the US top grossing 200 have implemented it, despite it proving reasonably effective at boosting performance in several level-based puzzle games.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

On the other hand, the game also designs a “Combo Drop“ with 20 puzzle pieces (You roll a new cookie out and you get 1 to 3 pieces of the whole cookie. One obvious design is, the game uses only one resource to mark level-ups for both kingdom and characters (puzzle pieces), which protects the content depth in the card pool.

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Royal Kingdom: Will it Usurp the Throne or Just be a Royal Relative?

Deconstructor of Fun

Dream Games has joined that list by bolstering its hold on match-3 puzzles and widening its already mass-market audience through the addition of its newest game, Royal Kingdom , which features one of the smoothest casual PvP designs in the market. King Robert (left) and King Richard (right). Wonder how they will expand their Royal-verse.

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

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.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

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It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. 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. And we don’t see this often enough in games.

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Top gamification examples in mobile apps

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Mix in quizzes and puzzles. Unless this feature is baked into your core and players expect it, no one wants to sit around for half an hour doing an intensive quiz. Users can set their own goals and tasks, and get rewarded once they complete them. Perfect for any type of educational app. We all love a good quiz.

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