Lily's Fruitful Drama
Thursday, 2nd of January 2020, 18:23 +01:00
In the beginning of last year, Tactile Games released their newest and most ambitious game ever. For a small ~50 person studio without top grossing titles on its name, diving into one of the most competitive segments of the mobile games market must have been a scary endeavour, but the bold and controversial execution has paid off. It's about time for an inquiry into why Lily's Garden has been crushing it. What is Lily's Garden, you ask? Isn't it just another dime a dozen puzzle game with a redecoration meta-game slapped on top? Actually, it isn't! At its core... With Lily's Garden, Tactile has combined a Collapse core-game with the highly popular redecoration meta-game. O...
Best Fiends Stars, the 'Soda' of Seriously?
Sunday, 27th of October 2019, 10:45 +01:00
It's about six years ago that two ex-Rovio employers left the mothership to start their own company. One year later, in October 2014, Best Fiends launched globally and impressively hasn't strayed far from the US top grossing charts ever since. Currently hanging around spot 90 on that list, Best Fiends is still going strong and has successfully sustained the company's hundred-something employee headcount all these years. But something new is brewing... Will Seriously's next game be another gem? Throughout the years, the company's pipeline has contained multiple Best Fiends games. Unfortunately without much success. Best Fiends Forever, launched in 2016 was a bold genr...
Empires & Puzzles; Zynga's Profitable Procurement
Monday, 3rd of June 2019, 15:00 +02:00
Zynga is doing well, very well. Even more so since the first of January this year. This was the date that the Social Game giant had acquired Small Giant Studios, as was announced two weeks earlier. The main reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant's hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Only five months after being globally launched in March 2017, E&P entered the top 50 grossing games in its category (RPGs/Strategy) on the App Store. It has been there ever since. Especially the last twelve months the game has been thriving, raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue per day. What makes this game so successful? What did Small Giant do ...
Matchington Mansion's Audacious Ascension
Thursday, 4th of April 2019, 21:25 +02:00
Imagine a friend came up to you and said: "You know what would we should do? Let's find one of the most succesful and profitable mobile game companies in the world, clone their flagship title and compete with them and their towering marketing budgets in the highly competitive Casual Free-to-Play market! We didn't make games before, so what could possibly go wrong!?" What would you say? From the outside, this is exactly how it sounds Matchington Mansion came into this world. Playrix, a trendsetting company with 15 years of experience making puzzle games has been subjected to countless attempts to having their games cloned before, but I'd argue none of these were as blatant and on-poi...
Board Kings - Cute but Sneaky
Thursday, 12th of December 2019, 22:55 +01:00
This article was originally written on the 10th of February, 2019 but has been updated in the end of 2019. Having played lots of incremental games, I was intrigued by the looks of Board Kings, but didn't expect anything new. Boy was I wrong! Looking at the amount of mechanics an average game on the App Store usually takes from other games, this game from Israeli company Jelly Button is truly unique. There's something behind this cute exterior... It uses the board game theme to its fullest, giving the player that nostalgic feeling of playing Risk or Monopoly with family during Christmas, and all the frustration this brings with it. The player's board at ga...
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