Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

I thought it would be interesting to contrast this to Word Dad , a puzzle game made by my friend, master game designer John Cutter. A brief aside on puzzles All three of these are more correctly called puzzles, of course. This means that really, puzzles and games are terms that are matters of degree, not kind.

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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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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Solo dev Dr.Kucho fights for true video games: “People play guided tours now” Mario Malagrino , creator of the recently released game Crude , knows exactly why he is working solo. “My Airships: Conquer the Skies is still going strong on Steam and Stark keeps adding new content to the game to keep the community interested.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. Empires and Puzzles regularly takes the top spot in Puzzle RPG category in the West (when Dokkan is having a post event hangover).

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The ultimate result of this kind of system-driven combinatoric gameplay is generally in one of two core gameplay paradigms: Procedural content generation , i.e. the game systems themselves create new content through a bunch of randomized decisions resulting in novel game content for each playthrough.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Till date Team Fight Tactics has reached bit over 11M installs. A new puzzle for the active community to solve. In years, we expect Team Fight Tactics to grow into a Billion Dollar game.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

9 Most Popular Video Game Genres Dominating the Gaming Market Adventure Games Adventure games feature minimal fighting and rely rather on narrative. Players typically interact with the environment and other characters in order to solve puzzles containing clues to advance in the gameplay. Which gaming genres should you choose?

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Although, in these types of games, whenever there is a new content update, there is also a revenue spike, which can be shown in the case of Tower of Fantasy. As a typical MMORPG feature, players can also challenge others for an open-world fight. Downloads had a huge spike at the start, which also affected the revenue spike.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

We need to release regular updates: more content, more events, faster, and higher quality. Reusing content The next thing on our list is reusing and looping content. So, here are our tips on how to reuse and loop your content the right way: 1. Plan content looping during the feature design phase.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The game also features over 500,000 tactical puzzles alongside various interactive lessons and videos to help players improve their skills. Fans could also access several Clash of Clans and Clash Royale-themed puzzle minigames on the Chess.com website. Paid membership also removes in-game ads for a more seamless experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Clash Quest is Supercell’s most recent attempt at disrupting the puzzle category through titles like Smash Land , Spooky Pop, and Hay Day Pop , each of them trying to achieve success from different angles. Clash Quest 101 In terms of gameplay, Clash Quest can be categorized as a blast-based midcore Puzzle game with some RPG components.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

“You can solve Lego puzzles or build your own creations on any flat surface in your room. Automatically maps Common to all these AR devices is the ability to consume two-dimensional content through a large, virtual screen dropped into your living space.

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Greenheart Games

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

A bit of research brought up a story from a year ago ( source ) that puts the blame on Google’s algorithm for fighting fake reviews and concluding that genuine reviews are also deleted by it as collateral damage. It looked like Google was removing genuine reviews from our Store page, en masse. We had just lost over 400.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It doesn't matter how good your content is if nobody sees it. During those hours of walking and fighting (and, in Baldur's Gate 3, searching 20000 identical crates), players will forget a ton of story. Portal was a solid 2 hour puzzle game. Each chapter had exactly one very memorable, hateable villain to fight.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Rush Wars was the PvE version of Clash Royale in the Boom Beach setting Clash Quest was Legend of Solgard in the Clash setting Hay Day Pop was a puzzle and decorate game with Hay Day IP Everdale is a Hay Day Derby feature as a game Clash Mini is the most innovative one. It’s Team Fight Tactics for casuals.

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Game Daily

APRIL 28, 2023

Mirrored Souls (pictured above) from The Bricks Studio is described as a “single-player-co-op puzzle-platformer” in which players control two characters at the same time on a mirrored screen in an attempt to reunite them. ” Drag out content I ask Santos if he is able to define a short game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

The decline of the whole genre in the Western markets was caused by a decline in two of the most significant sub-genres: Brawlers and Fighting Games. Overall, in the key Western markets, MMORPGs, Roguelikes, Merge and Puzzle genres largely bucked the recession in terms of revenue. The Brawlers sub-genre is pretty much Brawl Stars.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

” Little Nightmares 3 Bandai Namco dropped an announcement trailer for the third installment in the distinctive platform, puzzle, and stealth series. Mortal Kombat 1 We’re only a few weeks away from the release of the 12th main installment in the 80 million-selling fighting franchise (September 19).

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Still, they all provide a similar service: they produce graphics and animation for games, web applications, and other digital content. 3D games require more time and effort from the artist than 2D ones, but they also have many more options for what kind of content they can create. What do Game Art Studios do? 3D environment.

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Game Errors

MARCH 27, 2023

Table of contents: Update your graphics driver Close Startup and Background apps Tweak Resident Evil 7 graphics settings Verify game files 1. We hope you are solving puzzles and fighting enemies on Resident Evil 7 stutter-free. Update your graphics driver Time needed: 4 minutes. Conclusion There you have it! Happy gaming!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

TWiG 234: 500m Gamers on Tik Tok Can't Be Wrong / Supercell Unleashes the Flood Over 500m Tik Tok users watch gaming content every month, according to Jen's recent trips on the conference circuit, and this audience is one that the crew things you should be building your game thesis around from day one! Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 18, 2022

Indeed, one of the main starting points for the design was that it wouldn’t be a puzzle, standing in contrast to the highly puzzle-like nature of Advance Wars. Like, you’re a guy in armor fighting skeletons and moving around in this hell world.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Developing a detailed, polished universe like this presumably took a lot of time and effort from the team, but it pays off in the end as they continuously push out more content over time for player engagement. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition to being our first in-person convention in over two years, Play NYC was also the first time we've exhibited a version of Kristala that features our brand new player character and custom combats animations.plus a fast-paced, exciting mini-boss fight! Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Live services : Over the years, the game hasn’t lost its step and has continued to provide fresh content regularly. To do so, Supercell focuses on fresh Live Services content and on investing in esports, partnerships, community, and other top-of-the-funnel marketing campaigns. FarmVille extended its IP to puzzle back in 2015.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. It’d sure be nice to resolve that!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Hub worlds are coming In addition to trying to acquire properties in other genres, apps will likely try to appeal to players from other genres, particularly puzzle and casual , with popular features like explorable hub worlds, homes, and other custom design areas. Event- and content-specific currencies is a trend we’re across all the genres.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Understanding players and marketability have also become more important, leading to larger companies increasingly building content fortresses – in which they acquire a user and move them between games in their portfolio. This has led to a resurgence in the value of IP in the market, as it is now harder to get new users.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Wanna get a peek at a previously unrevealed level area Ian's been working on that will serve as the arena for the Kristala demo boss fight? In the meantime, here's a look at our updated weapon trails Rodrigo was able to work on this sprint outside of his work on the boss fight. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle.

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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. Playtika, Aristocrat, Scientific Games and Huuuge Games continue to fight to hold their market leader positions. This is China based Funtrio. Ad revenues not included. Ad revenues not included.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

For the first version of the game, we decided to have only a single-player version, where the players would fight against the AI. This was no surprise as there was little content in the game. It was supposed to be a game with a synchronous multiplayer mode. This is how our game looked like in the beginning.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

But with an increasing number of hypercasual games fighting for the same audience with often very similar visuals, gameplay motivations and marketing tactics, IPMs are bound to suffer and therefore indicating market saturation. Hypercasual IPMs have started to flatten towards the end of 2019. For some games, this is a 1-time IAP.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

This makes RPGs the third largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.4Bn) and Puzzle ($4.5Bn) games. For example, entering Fighting games is nearly suicidal effort. Idle RPGs (not to be confused with Idle games) and Puzzle RPGs were the biggest growing sub-genres in 2019. Straightforward content production.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Breaking into the top of the genre requires often massive development investments, an unrivaled content pipeline, and superb live operations - and often an appealing IP. A smaller studio can still build a very healthy and sustainable business with a very smart approach to content development. Small Giant did it with Puzzle and Empires.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

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. This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power). Limited regen (e.g.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Dark Crypt by @DaisyGames3 is a puzzle game with a horror setting, well on topic for the spooky season! Manipulate gravity in Spinstar, @PixyDevs 's precision puzzle platformer with great pixel art and music! Terra Ventura by @LogicalProgres3 is a classic isometric action RPG with a ton of content! Dark Crypt. Terra Ventura.

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