Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature. We’ve updated the blog post with new battle pass implementation examples and best practices for introducing the feature into your mobile game.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Similar to the mechanics of Genshin Impact, the player explores the vast open-world by climbing on the walls, swimming in the rivers, gliding in the skies, wiping out enemies, and solving different kinds of puzzles. As a typical MMORPG feature, players can also challenge others for an open-world fight.

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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

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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Then we further broke down the categories into genres and sub-genres based on feature sets. 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.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This year we featured over 20 brave game creators in our solo developers-series and we like to share some highlights. 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

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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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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

I also tried to tackle another design weakness of mine -- I rely a lot on fights with shotguns. So a lot of this map's features and verticality ended up feeling like a waste. With a well-timed low gravity jump, the player can now escape the arena and fight through the scientists' lab to escape in a way that evokes Portal.

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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. The challenge here is to design features that won’t alienate Riot fans - a sizable and very vocal group. source: Sensor Tower.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The device features two displays with 2064×2208 pixel resolution per eye and a faster refresh rate running at 90Hz. “You can solve Lego puzzles or build your own creations on any flat surface in your room. “If you’re doing a body combat workout, the targets are gonna come at you in your physical room.”

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Plan content looping during the feature design phase. Another example is the 'Puzzles' collection mechanics, where the player farms puzzle pieces in hard match-3 levels to assemble pictures. So we decided to loop the puzzles at the same time as adding new ones. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

A good example of this is Huuuge, which focused on social features and was able to carve its spot in the highly competitive market to a point where they are now a big publisher diversifying into other genres. This is especially notable in slots design, where meta-features and slot machines are typically developed by separate teams.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

” Little Nightmares 3 Bandai Namco dropped an announcement trailer for the third installment in the distinctive platform, puzzle, and stealth series. Due for release next year, the game features two odd-looking protagonists – Low and Alone – creeping through a place called The Spiral, full of foreboding and dangers.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

Since the pandemic began, we've exhibited Kristala at a few awesome virtual conventions like IWOCon and Game Carnival; and while these cons are fun and feature a ton of interesting panels and industry speakers, they don't quite replace the value of in-person conventions. Kristala at Play NYC 2021.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 8, 2023

You can compete against other players while surviving traps, completing puzzles, and fighting monsters. Disable this feature on GeForce Experience as well if relevant. However, by taking the proper steps, you can easily get rid of this problem. This PvP dungeon-crawling game is very enjoyable. Click on Apply.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

In addition to working on the character concepts for some of the enemies featured in the Kristala demo, Amanda also worked this sprint on designing a stunning, gothic-inspired clock tower and set of gears to be used in the new Astral Clocktower Studios logo. You can see those (and much more) by tuning into our monthly Patreon updates!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

Especially with their two most recent titles Lily’s Garden and Penny & Flo , Tactile has been a stronghold for story-driven puzzle games with the collapse mechanic. Each level presents players with a puzzle to solve, and failing to notice items or power-ups can gradually increase that cognitive load and lead to frustration.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Suppose you are designing artwork for a puzzle game, a minimalist art style with simple shapes and clean lines will suffice as they assist players in concentrating on the gameplay. For example, acceptance criteria may state that tank fighting mechanics function as intended in 98% of test encounters.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The biggest factor is probably increased investment into live-ops activities and incremental feature innovations over 2019, which is beautifully captured in Liquid and Grit’s product investment graph below. Playtika, Aristocrat, Scientific Games and Huuuge Games continue to fight to hold their market leader positions.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

An upgrade to WarCraft, Tides of Darkness provided a number of advanced features, including fighting over sea and air (not just on land). As the last surviving marine sent to stop the demons, players must fight to keep them from destroying everything. This puzzle game provides grids of small shapes of different colors.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

For example, keep it simple for an older player of a casual puzzle game versus a hardcore gamer who understands managing resources and more complex systems Game economists must be careful to balance monetization techniques without blocking the fun. Each different game audience needs a different economy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Many people say that Cookie Run: Kingdom chose a very smart setup - on one hand, it has a vast universe with long histories, legends, power struggles, supernatural forces, and the eternal fight between good and evil; on the other, cookies are the sweet dessert that we see every day and associate with holiday, celebration, and happiness.

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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. They were not featured by app stores either. Are the games regularly featured, or are they growing through cross-promotion inside the portfolio of the same publisher? Are they top of mind games?

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

For Beta 12 I decided to include it on the patron feature voting list, and… it won. Sample Garrison interior layout (major features labeled), under the old system first introduced in 2015. Failing that (gets blasted in a fight? or large (hard to fit the work in?), hacking attempts unsuccessful?), ” issue.

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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.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 31, 2009

About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank , I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh myself on the puzzles and dialog. If I was going to do Insult Sword Fighting in a future game, I'd make it more free form allowing the player to be clever and construct their own sentences.

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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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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 30, 2009

About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank , I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh myself on the puzzles and dialog. One thing that stood out was during the fights they always taunted each other with insults. Might be a good time to start hoarding canned goods.

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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. no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power). 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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

This makes RPGs the third largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.4Bn) and Puzzle ($4.5Bn) games. In our taxonomy we breakdown RPG genre into 7 sub-genres based on games’ features and core gameplay. For example, entering Fighting games is nearly suicidal effort. Fighting games install trends are spiky as is the revenue rate.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Small Giant did it with Puzzle and Empires. This makes RPGs the third-largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.0Bn) and Puzzle ($5.1Bn) games. We break down RPGs into 6 sub-genres based on games’ features and core gameplay. Meanwhile Playrix’ Puzzle & Conquest seems to be on the track scaling very nicely.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Going the extra mile with your game and adding in just a few more features or touches does make a difference. That doesn’t mean you should add features for the sake of it. But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. And your players will notice.

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Game Errors

APRIL 10, 2023

Fighting in the streets After working in the production of Irem’s 1984 beat ‘em up game Kung-Fu Master, which was an instant success both in Asia and North America, Japanese designer, director and producer Takashi Nishiyama came up with the idea for a fighting game centered around the boss fights of the previous title.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Bardsley Creative's @Seedlings_Game is probably the game featuring the most realistic nature graphics you've seen in a while - as they're all derived from photos of the beautiful Aotearoa New Zealand Bird. We don't know yet if it features skating birbs, we'll see! RUN: The World In-Between. Run, boy, run! Woodland Empire. Dark Crypt.

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

Superhot VR This is a first-person shooter game with a unique feature where time moves only when the player moves. Moss Moss is a VR game that features Quill, a tiny mouse, as the main character. The game takes players through a series of puzzles and challenges, all set in a beautifully rendered world.

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