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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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Understanding this can help you (and me) to write more popular and effective games. You might as well write your Game Manifesto. This often inspires ambitious young people to write their MANIFESTO about the TRUE MEANING OF VIDEO GAMES. "I One is overcoming: Defeating puzzles, challenges, other people. Everyone else has.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 15, 2024

You can always make the numbers bigger, sure, but that's boring and leads to eternal fights. Instead, Gygax filled his dungeon with obscure puzzles and instant deathtraps. Looking at it, you can tell there's not going to be a lot of fighting. In the end, you might fight the demilich Acererack. Pwned, n00b.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m currently playing through Baldurs Gate 3 and in one instance i began fighting one group of enemies, only for another to show up that distracted them. Essentially you have to use this distraction effectively to win the fight because it collects the enemies in a group and the interjecting enemy eventually leaves.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I don't want to write a review. That fight really stomped me." "Do So I went onto Twitch and YouTube and watched how Serious Gamerz did the hard fights. The fights were just too fast and chaotic for anything else, especially against the tough bosses. Then they went back to standard tactics and concentrating on the fight.

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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. Installs are supporting the story.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On the other hand, playing Tasty Humans has short turns, which helps the game stay snappy even though it’s a brain-burny puzzle game. Tasty Humans is about monsters fighting humans instead of the other way around, which gets a sick laugh out of everybody who sees the game. The mere threat is usually enough to keep the game going.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Dylan: Chess is such a fantastic example: it’s really a geometric puzzle. I think this is important for creators to remember: your story is how you write it and it can change. is about scavenging the remnants of a very, very old war and using them to fight in an endless cycle of retaliation. A typical writing technique.

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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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Greenheart Games

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

In this report, I had expected to write about sales numbers and piracy rates but given the series of mind-boggling events this past week, this will have to wait a little. Welcome to the surprising second part of our Android release reports. If you missed part one, you can catch up on it here. from over two thousand players.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

But since I can't resist writing about the thing, I want to start with the key question: Why do people love these games so much, despite the sadism. If said community doesn't form to write online guides and wikis, all you have is an incomprehensible game that scares players off forever. They write beloved hits, one after another.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As the parents fight their way through the crawl-space, attic, clock, and extra-planer wonderlands in their house, you will hear them whine, complain, and deliver constant passive-aggressive insults. It skips from action to pvp games to puzzles to boss fights with blinding speed. It's great writing. It's writing.

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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. Make sure the writing is readable and simple to read and use labels and icons that are clear and succinct.

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

My predictions below relied on the premise that good writing would basically force some events to happen, and I was thrown by a loop by the, well, not good writing. As of this writing, we’re in the 8th year of Game of Thrones seasons with only 4 episodes left, and yet there are numerous major reveals still left.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

But before you continue, I’d like to make a disclaimer: As you know, I always try to offer an exhaustive and impartial assessment of the games I write about. The timing of the Floodrush beta is puzzling because playing Squad Busters just before Floodrush remarks the weaknesses in the latter. So here we want to give a quick look at it.

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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

MAY 4, 2020

In the first quarter of 2020 Supercell soft-launched their second title with a puzzle core - Hay Day Pop. On paper, Hay Day Pop seems like a smart move from Supercell: it’s a puzzle game for a simulation audience with a familiar character that got a face-lift. FarmVille extended its IP to puzzle back in 2015.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The motivation for this article is that many devs asked me to write it for a long time. If you are writing a game, just write things as fast as you can and as simple as you can. Let them work the way they like, quick and dirty, but just make sure they write clean APIs to communicate with other programmers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

As the builder of the kingdom, players have the god like power to write the story for their cookies as a part of designing and changing the layout of the the space. 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.

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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. During the writing of this post, we connected with the folks behind Geeklab and they agreed to offer a free month to their service for all of our readers. This is how our game looked like in the beginning.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

While some players enjoy puzzling out creative ways to get ahead, at the extreme end it eventually devolves into optimal tedium which is overall harmful to the experience. Failing that (gets blasted in a fight? I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy. hacking attempts unsuccessful?),

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 30, 2023

Because, at their hearts, Zelda games are puzzle games with a bit of combat bolted on. Puzzle games are a niche genre. They put years into writing it, finished it, and spent another year polishing it! Remember, this is a puzzle game at heart. Honestly, the optional fights in Z:TotK never get that tough. Elden Ring.

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