The games we will analyze today are all puzzle match games where the players try to match items based on certain conditions. The aim is to understand the match games in depth, and how different developers added their own twists…
Let’s break down the design of Best Fiends. Yes, it’s ‘Fiends’ not Freinds. At its core, it’s a Connect 3 gameplay. The core is then combined with RPG elements in a clever way. Each colored item represents an element (Leaf,…
I don’t save the API key anywhere. This is an embed of my app that is hosted in Streamlit. You can also try it directly from there
In the last part, we talked about how scripts communicate 1 on 1. Today we will see how one script can communicate indirectly with as many scripts as they want. Let’s start with an example We have a player that…
There are a lot of ways to communicate between gameobjects. So many that sometimes it might get confusing to decide how to do that. Here I’ll go one by one and generally describe use cases for each so that you…
One of the most important aspects of game design is the core mechanic. It sets the foundation for a great game and determines its overall success. But what makes a core mechanic truly great? According to the book Clockwork Game…
Hypercasual market is getting harder and harder to crack. With excessive prototypes in the market, getting one with good KPI numbers is difficult. But when you do it’s necessary to ensure it has a very good LTV (Life Time Value).…
Welcome back! Time to continue our journey with our hypercasual game. What we were missing in the last episode was enemies and we will get into it now. An enemy works similarly to the person that we have in the…
We left off at a place where we had a nice modifier base class waiting to be overridden with features. First, we will create the crowd-generation mechanic. Let’s start by creating a prefab out of our Person gameobject which. We…
I was the producer for a ragdoll-based PvE fighting game featuring simple controls. The idea and vision for the game originated from our programmer, and after discussing the overall plan, I trusted his direction and supported him by facilitating the…
