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Hypercasual games market keeps shrinking, still 3.38 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

QoQ); Bridge Race (–4% QoQ); Magic Tiles 3 (–12% QoQ); and Build A Queen (–20% QoQ). Wood Nuts: Screw Puzzle The first game on the list is a title by Zego Studio: Wood Nuts: Screw Puzzle. In this game, the user solves various puzzles by unscrewing everything on the screen. Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.

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Can Playrix' Puzzle Breakers Crack Zynga's Empires & Puzzles?

Deconstructor of Fun

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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Creating the Perfect Board Game Scoring System (Tasty Humans Pt. 2)

Brand Game Development

Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. I decided that the basic gameplay was going to involve filling up a grid with tiles. What determines how well that player did given a grid is filled with different tiles? So how do you do it? So What Next?

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Hypercasual games market continues to decline, but still nearly 3 billion installs this quarter

PreMortem.Games

40% QoQ) and Wood Screw Puzzle (–23% QoQ). The concept is the following: players start with a small hole (or as one, if you wish) and grow by devouring objects smaller than their current size, as well as other players’ holes. However, the number of newcomers is on a downtrend from quarter to quarter.

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Growing Up with Board Games: The Power of Nostalgia

Brand Game Development

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. That was mind boggling to me and a completely new concept. When the pegs fell out of the stand and all your tiles fell….ah

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Untold Stories of ex-Activision Blizzard King’s Founders

Deconstructor of Fun

The company has developed two mobile titles— Word Tiles Puzzle: Word Search and Restaurant Tycoon. A new concept alone is no longer enough; founders must present a clear vision for how their product will penetrate the market and cultivate a dedicated fan base. While neither became widely popular, they generated around 1.4

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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. Do you lack depth in your puzzle levels?

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