Worldscapes: PeopleFun's Move Beyond Word Games
Thursday, 30th of June 2022, 19:14 +02:00
Haven't you heard? PeopleFun, the creators of Wordscapes, are working on something other than a word game (Worldscapes)! We'll dig into the new game further on, but let's first take the opportunity to see how PeopleFun's core word games-focused business is faring and how that's leading to broader change. Word games have never been the most mainstream subgenre in the puzzle category. As it stands, not everyone enjoys going over all possible entries of the dictionary every move they make, but a select number of people do. Let's look at some numbers. In 2021, the Words subgenre made up 3.4% of the Puzzle genre's total revenue while accounting for 10% of total puzzle genre downloa...
Royal Match: Dream Games' Regal Performance
Wednesday, 25th of May 2022, 16:42 +02:00
The puzzle game category has experienced double-digit year-over-year revenue growth for years now; 34% in 2018, 17% in 2019, 29% in 2020, and 16% in 2021. In January of this year, mobile marketing agency Udonis wrote this as part of their Puzzle Games Report: The state of mobile puzzle games. | Source: Udonis The matching games subgenre includes eon-old titans like Candy Crush Saga, Homescapes, and Fishdom, which all have seen near-continuous revenue growth in recent years. These games terrorize the waters in the bloodiest ocean of the casual game space, while only a very select few manage to not get eaten alive. Casual puzzle market growth in 2021....
Cookie Run: Kingdom's Bountiful Appeal
Thursday, 28th of April 2022, 10:44 +02:00
Last September, something started rumbling and tumbling in South Korea. Devsisters' YouTube channel had been teasing it for weeks. Cookie Run: Kingdom - the first auto-battler featuring the well-known casual game IP - had its most important update as of yet to be released soon! None of it was a lie. The game more than tripled its run rate in the months that followed. Worldwide revenue for Q4 2021 | Source: Sensor Tower Since March 2021, the game had been enjoying big success in South Korea, the birthplace of the Cookie Run franchise. Although it had been downloadable worldwide since then, the game only gained popularity in Japan and the US half a year later. ...
2021's Merge Mayhem
Monday, 13th of December 2021, 18:48 +01:00
It's the end of the year, which means we're reflecting on the times that have passed to make plans for the times ahead. In the same manner, a year ago, while helping out with Deconstructor of Fun's Puzzle Game predictions I wrote about Metacore's Merge Mansion: "While the game is showing to have some challenges to expand its board in the long term, numerous other studios are quickly catching up with their own version of this highly engaging loop. 2021 will show who will come out victorious." At Voodoo Berlin we have been one of those studios; having worked harder than ever to lift Plantopia towards the top of the Merge charts, and what a journey it's been. Meanwhile I've been keeping a cl...
Space Ape didn't miss a Beat
Monday, 24th of May 2021, 23:23 +02:00
It's February 2021, the world is in the middle of the longest lockdown we've ever experienced and it's been about a year since we've gone out to dance. I -an avid fan of Space Ape Games' work and game development philosophy- discover their new game in my Play Store. The app icon is unconventional, as it just shows the word 'BEATSTAR' instead of a graphical representation of its gameplay, which intrigues me as a game designer who is used to seeing Hypercasual icons fly by. I'd call myself a respectable rhythm gamer, having spent thousands of hours in Guitar Hero back in the day, but a mobile rhythm game is new to me. Curiously I open the app and find something even better than what I was hopi...
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