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

Game Refinery

If executed correctly, introducing new mechanics in this way can be an easy win, enabling developers to test out player preferences, broaden motivational appeal, boost user acquisition, and enhance player engagement – all without drastically altering the core gameplay. What’s particularly interesting about this archetype is its rarity.

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How to Create a Pattern Building Board Game (Tasty Humans Pt. 1)

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. The original idea for Tasty Humans can be traced back to a single thought that I had twenty-four hours into Panjam , a 48-hour board game design contest with the theme “they tasted quite delicious.”

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How to Add Variable Player Powers to Your Board Game (Tasty Humans Pt. 3)

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In my last Designer Diary for Tasty Humans , I talked about how I approached scoring based on the arrangement of tiles in each of the monster’s stomachs. In Tasty Humans, you never simply play a single tile.

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

Brand Game Development

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. 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? Scoring on a Full Stomach.

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4 Lessons from Azul for Aspiring Board Game Designers

Brand Game Development

Azul has taken the board game world by storm. Like Sagrada , it’s a gorgeous and approachable puzzle game with emergent complexity that becomes ever more apparent with more plays. It’s also, somehow, always trending on social media and Board Game Geek. Need help on your board game?

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Tile Match: The new Match-3 or the new Merge?

Deconstructor of Fun

It’s hard to keep secrets in the gaming industry. Once players show interest in something you've created, many game developers worldwide quickly become "inspired" by your game. So, in the never ending search for the next blue ocean, there is a new stop: Tile Match. What is and is not a Tile Match?

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Even older hypercasual games break into the Top 10 in Q1 2023

PreMortem.Games

Thief Puzzle: to pass a level Another new hit with 27M downloads is Thief Puzzle: to pass a level. The game’s monetization strategy is focused primarily on In-app Ads: it has short levels with a big amount of post-level and try-again Interstitial ad placements that allow Thief Puzzle: to pass a level to generate high LTV.

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