Game Design Post

‘More of the same but different’ is a recipe for making the perfect sequel to Lily’s Garden — Penny & Flo: Finding Home.

How the elemental interactions power the game’s combat, exploration and reinforce the gacha based character collection.

Balancing the immediate pleasure-driven desires with long term strategically-driven choices in EverMerge.

1st place isn’t good enough to make it to the top in Mario Kart Tour.

Playrix encourages deeper, more active involvement from its audience exploring a mix of mechanics through mini-game events.

Traplight optimises progression for the game and its players by merging the seasonal battle pass with a rested XP system.

The anticipation for reward is worth more than the reward for making repetition fun in Archero.

Playrix innovates on Puzzle RPG battles and brings them to life by playing with positioning.

How COVID-19 transformed Pokémon Go to bring real-world social encounters home.

Making the returning player experience is a notch above the rest in Clash of Clans.

Zynga challenges match 3 conventions by evolving the game loop with the arcs of casting spells.

By following real world examples, Design Home doubles down on feeling intuitive for its audience.

Toon Blast builds on a large active user-base by focusing on an intrinsic social experience at its core.

Coin Master mostly plays itself with few momentary interactions to deliver constant positive growth and feedback, just like an Idle Game.

A look at how incentives align in a robust event framework to supercharge Homescape’s primary revenue generator!

By allowing players to bank mana between rounds, Legends of Runeterra innovates on skill in the genre of digital CCGs.

How Supercell tackled the hyperinflation in the Boom Beach economy and revitalized their Meta!

Empires & Puzzles’ auto-battle system helps adapt the game playtime fit into the daily routines of it’s most valued audience!

Dota Underlords brings the accessibility of deck-building to the world of Dota!

King finds success in rewarding time invested for all players regardless of their skill!

Five years on, daily quests continue to be the catalyst powering Marvel Contest of Champions!

Can you guess what the FarmVille 2 tutorial guides players to do as the first action on the farm?

Lily’s larger-than-life, 1 minute intro dives right into the heart of its audiences’ human need for relatedness.

King have published a new f2p mobile RPG: Knighthood — can they FIGHT THEIR WAY TO THE TOP AND BECOME A LEGEND?