Small, agile and extremely hard working teams Ruthless focus on a single type of puzzle mechanic of tile-blasting Negated laborious content treadmill demanded by a visual progression through a cheap cost location of their studiosĪimed, much like King, to saturate the visual progress based match-3 category by releasing follow-up titles with female first themes (gardening, decoration/renovation and zoo-keeper) Innovated by implementing visual progression and storytelling to replace outdated saga-progression Which is why Homescapes may be the next match-3 puzzle game to eat up your time, but you'll want to play it with the sound off.When analysing the top Match & Blast developers, we can identify (and significantly simplify) three distinctive approaches to grab a piece of the $3Bn market:įirst mover advantage in the form of a massive playerbase and defacto puzzle saga franchisesĬonquered and saturated the market initially relying on the design frameworks to build, cross-promotion power to scale and the analytics to operate multiple similar type of games aimed at a similar audience. That part doesn't really make a lot of sense, and it's really odd because this can be pretty noisy. The biggest downside is this one new aspect that's rather annoying: When you finish a puzzle, your on-screen companion will clap his hands at you even if you don't move on to the next part. There are also times when a level will have multiple parts, and you have to complete one to move onto the next, and only by solving all will you get your precious stars. For starters, you don't need to match special icons to activate them - you can tap them twice instead. But while the interior decorating parts of this are limited, and really only motivate you to keep going, the puzzle parts add some fun new mechanics to this familiar puzzle type. You then use these stars to buy new furnishings for your childhood home, or to perform such tasks as sweeping the floor. In Homescapes, you have to match three or more of the same kind and color items so you can clear the board and earn stars.
While adding a home decorating component doesn't really make this more fun, this match-3 puzzle game does have some new mechanics that make it stand out a little.
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