Penny & Flo: Finding Home is the Perfect Sequel to Lily’s Garden

Harshal Karvande
Game Design Post
Published in
4 min readJan 7, 2021

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Love? Friendship? Mansion? Puzzles? YES! — Tactile Post

Penny & Flo: Finding Home is a f2p tap-to-blast puzzle game, developed and published by Tactile Games, where players help Penny and Flo renovate the mansion of a former Hollywood actress by solving challenging puzzles.

As a successor to Lily’s Garden, Penny & Flo unravels a related story full of twists and turns with a cast of quirky characters, with similar game mechanics, theme and visual aesthetics in an attempt to followup with a strong subsequent game by making it more of the same but different.

More of the Same …

Penny & Flo join Austin & Lily in their never ending quest to Match & Renovate.

Tactile borrows from the Playrix playbook and moves its next game from renovating the garden (Lily’s Garden and Gardenscapes) to restoring a home (Penny & Flo: Finding Home and Homescapes), keeping intact the invest, express and expand gameplay loop with a story that touches on mature themes like it’s predecessor.

The Lily’s Garden Cinematic Universe, Phase Two.

Tactile also continues its successful UA strategy of making short, hard hitting creatives that…

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Harshal Karvande
Game Design Post

Game Design Lead at Rovio (Small Town Murders), formerly Game Design Lead at Zynga (FarmVille 2). https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshalkarvande/