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…
In this series, we will break down the game Crowd Evolution and create the core of the game in Unity. We will go through the modules of the core gameplay only. Let’s see, we have a crowd of people moving…
ANt Colony Based on market research, I identified that arcade idle games were emerging as a popular genre in mobile gaming. Prior tests with three arcade idle games showed strong in-game metrics. In one such game, Monument Builder, players collected…
TLDR; Find the full script here We will be covering the swerve input from the popular runner mechanics. This input has been used over and over again in hyper-casual games and is probably the most used one. Runner games have been…
Arcade idle games are a no joke development-wise. It can take up a lot of time and effort and understandably so. The day 0 playtime of arcade idle can reach up to 4 times higher than hypercasual in general which…
Onboarding for a mobile game can be both simple and tricky. Whenever you acquire a user from a UA video, all of the users already understand what to do and most of them already understand how to do it. So,…
One of the most important things of a mobile game is to make it understandable. So it’s very important for the players to understand the game rules in a few seconds so that they can imagine themselves playing it. On…
An arcade idle game can be thought of as an engine. Similar to an engine it has various parts and a resource flow between the parts. In my previous blog post on arcade idle, I explained that an arcade idle game…
There are many factors that come into play when juicing up your game or in other words polishing. Blindly adding particle effects and sounds don’t mean polishing. If not done correctly, that can even harm the experience of the game…
Arcade idle games are taking the hypercasual market by storm. It all started when Homa Games introduced a new genre ‘Arcade Idle’ where hypercasual meets hybrid casual. In late 2020, Farm Land and Craft Island were the first experimental games of this genre by Homa…
