With ever increasing
competition in the puzzle games with companies like Rovio, Gram Games, Jam City and Playrix eating away King's market share they will eventually have to successfully expand into new categories or watch their player base decline.
Not exact matches
While Monument Valley rests
in the popular
puzzle game genre, it takes more than challenging mazes and striking artwork to dominate and stand out amongst the
competition.
The unique, physics - based
puzzle game was the winner of Ludum Dare 29, a
competition that challenges developers to create a
game in just two days.
Perhaps too the debate should discuss the importance of
competition in video
games, where fighting
games (like
puzzle games) seem to center on fighting an «opponent» who is singular and often human, while adventure
games often have you fighting not just enemies
in a world but the world itself.
Game Pick: «Ssshifty» (Glen Forrester, browser) «Ssshifty is a
puzzle platformer created by Radix for submission to the Klik of the Month
competition, where players have to collect all fruits
in a level while trying to avoid falling off the map.
Action
games and platformers (like Mario)
in which the player controls a fighter; strategy
games in which the player controls an army; grand strategy
games in which the player controls an empire; racing
games in which the player controls a vehicle;
puzzle games in which the player manipulates geometry; sports
games; fighting
games; SimCity: These are genres of
games where plot is merely a function of
competition, character is merely a function of success, and goals take precedence over words.
Two
puzzle game juggernauts collide as global phenomenon Tetris ® and SEGA's famous Puyo Puyo ™ combine
in a super mash - up of ferocious
competition, adorable looks, and addictive
puzzle fun!