Township Leads the Way in the Events with Mini-Games Trend

Harshal Karvande
Game Design Post
Published in
4 min readAug 13, 2020

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Township is a unique blend of city building and farming! — Playrix Post

Township is a f2p farming and city building simulation game, developed and published by Playrix, where players harvest crops, craft goods and trade resources as they help fun, charismatic townspeople with their orders and build and decorate their dream town.

Over the last few years, Township has build upon the standard order board style events that are common to social casual games and transitioned to an event framework that consists of playing mini-games —interesting and unique experiences with new mechanics that encourages deeper, more active involvement from its audience.

The Core Loop

The every session loop.

In the old standard event loops, players performed farm actions like planting, harvesting and crafting to produce goods that completed orders in separate event interfaces to progress in them and win rewards. The event interface was themed for the fiction and narrative delivery and all events required investment in the core loop to keep it fresh and rewarding.

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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/