How to Make Your Puzzle Mobile Game Addictive in a Candy Crush Style?

Some eye-popping statistics of King – maker of Candy Crush Saga

• Daily, 93 million users are playing Candy Crush Saga
• Game brings 600,000 USD in every single day
• Estimated yearly profits of Candy Crush is 230 million dollars

It means if Candy Crush continued with similar revenue stats, in next 5 years, it will bring 1 billion dollar.

Getting inspired with the success of Candy Crush, many mobile game developers entered the market with their puzzle games and hopes, but none of them hit the top stage or became able to earn that much revenue. If you are one of them and have failed to achieve success like this game, then make sure that you forgot to apply the Candy Crush rules. Making a game similar to Candy Crush is not enough; you have to go through its addictive user strategy to implement the same in your game.

Here is what you have to insert within your game in a Candy Crush Style.

Make it Nostalgic

Nostalgic is something emotional or inspired about the past. Candy Crush Saga is a world of colourful candies and sweets. You can’t stop your mind to think of those moments when you were mad for such candies and sweets. Indirectly, the game sends you few years back in your childhood memories without being noticed by you.

A psychological anchor

When people enter to Candy Crush, they feel full of the joys of spring by seeing those colourful candies and sweets. Candy Crush Saga kills two birds with one stone. At one side, candies throw you in your childhood memories, and at another side, they boost your happy hormones.

Unexpected Rewards

What is unexpected reward? Employees receive a mail of half day leave on Saturday, an extra discount at the time of paying shopping bills, sale at your favourite mall, etc., all are unexpected rewards. People are crazy behind unexpected rewards, that’s why they spend money on slot machines in Casinos – probably with an expectation of winning unexpected money.

Candy Crush has achieved mastery in providing unexpected rewards to users. While playing game, you will notice that your one unplanned candy move can lead you to win the game. You consider it as your luck or your mastery in game, but in actual it’s a master plan of game to make you happy and to convince you to pay for next moves.

Make it a frustration creator and reliever

First Candy crush frustrates users by not allowing them to win the level. It confuses them with each of their move, until they get ready to quit the game. When you become ready to quit, the game gives you a sigh of relief by letting you make a correct move. The cycle of creating frustration and removing it later goes on which makes the game extremely addictive. Users don’t like to remain frustrates all the time, also they get bored of remaining calm all the time – so Candy Crush entertain them constantly with frustration-creating and frustration-relieving cycle.

Make it Competitive

Candy Crush Saga is a Facebook connected game. All your Facebook friends are watching your scores. This game compares your scores with your friends to motivate you. Indirectly, this game puts you at competition with your friends. You will do your best to score more and to win more levels.

Make it a Self-Esteem Booster

Some habits raise self-esteem like taking a selfie, being kind, thinking positive, dressing nicely, inventing something accidentally, eating favourite food, etc. People love their habits that actually raise their self-esteem. And Candy Crush Saga is truly a self-esteem booster. Whenever a player win a level after making several attempts, he feels like a king of gaming world who never quits even after failing several times. He feels like having courage and a smart brain.

Candy Crush Saga is an interesting game but what makes it interesting is its trick to get attached with users’ psychological feelings. If you put the same in your game in a way that even users’ would not be able to determine what’s going on, then you can also hit the top stage.

Challenges Faced by Game Developers to Keep Their Game Alive

With the release of new games on a daily basis, it is becoming tougher for old mobile game developers to maintain the same number of users and a same place of success. As the new game arrives, game developers are notifying constant decrease in users. They can tackle these issues easily, but the below problems are making things difficult for them.

Financial Problems

Highly addictive games like Angry Birds, Clash of Clans, Temple Run and others who made a history in gaming world are struggling today to maintain the same number of users. In fact, they are losing their popularity due to which developers are suffering from financial crisis. On the other side, developers are forced to look for new ways to make their game ranking come up again.

Difficult to Hold Increasing Number of Users

The U.K. Company, Mind Candy revealed a decrease in its net profit of hit-game Moshi Monster – from $12.7 million in 2012 to $3.4 million in 2013. The company accepts that it failed to accommodate increasing number of users. It also ignored the importance of app localization by keeping its app limited to English users only.

Fickle Users

The whole mobile market is fickle. This is the market where daily you have to deal with users seeking for variety at cheap rates or free of cost. It’s hard to give users something that is free and at the same time, give them something convincing that make them pay for in-game assets.

Game developers are taking pressure from both sides, at one side they have to make a challenging, exciting and fun delivering game and at other side, game marketing to get the money out of the users’ pocket.

Even after applying these efforts, the fear of losing users continues as daily new games are being published by others. These intense competitions are forcing game development company to keep an eye on new avenues for further growth.

Diversify

Even the kings of mobile games are struggling with diversifying. I am talking about the owner of Angry Birds, Rovio Entertainment and maker of Candy Crush Saga, King Digital.

It was predicted that Ravio Entertainment will hit the high ranks of being the biggest mobile game market approximately by 2018. But the company failed to continue with the success ofAngry birds.

Same situation was faced by King Digital who failed to maintain the highest peak of game. This is because of lack of new releases. However, the company had claimed to release the new version in second half of the year. Let’s see whether it would get its market reputation back or not.

Rovio is also focusing on creating a new version of World of Warriors for China with Chinese language.

Concluding

It’s tough to earn fame in game development market, and it’s tougher to maintain the place of success once you achieved it. Whether you are new or old in game development world, you have to bring new varieties to your users frequently to keep them attach with your game for a long time.

Virtual Reality: Next Innovative Arena of Game Development

Google, Apple and Microsoft are trying their best to push you in virtual reality world. And the biggest proof is their most-debated devices like HoloLens, Google Cardboard box and Apple’s VR headset (don’t have much idea for Apple VR products).

Now the question is: how virtual reality change the way users play mobile games and the way game developers make games?

This is the common topic discussed in 2014 – but it failed to take the shape because of discouraging devices. Again companies have put their foot on virtual world and this time with more confidence they are promising to change your mobile gaming experience. May be they will replace your mobiles with their devices for a new experience.

HoloLens: Put On Your Game Face

Mobile games that you love to play today will give you a mind-blowing experience in future. Let’s take an example of your favourite darling game – Minecraft. We heard many times about playing Minecraft in HoloLens is something like having an entire different experience. Some gestures are enough to build a whole virtual world using HoloLens. Users are curiously waiting for such experience.

Microsoft didn’t yet announce any gaming project for HoloLens, but it made sure that gaming will remain a key part of this device.

Google’s Cardboard for Gaming

Google’s Cardboard allows you to turn your smartphone into a virtual reality handset. Last time, we didn’t notice much craze for this device, may be the craze was reserved for 2015. Recently, Google announced the release of Pie Noon (An android app) for its own Google Cardboard device.

By strapping your smartphone on your face, you can feel like playing within virtual reality world.

Remember those childhood days, when you were getting mad to play with those cartoons in your television screen. At that time, you must have thought that why don’t we have a cartoonish colourful world or what If I could jump to the world of my favourite cartoons? Well, your wish will soon come true when you start playing with Google’s Cardboard. You will feel your presence in cartoonish world.

Oculus Rift

For entrance of VR era, a big part of credit goes to Oculus VR – an American Virtual Reality Technology company and the founder of Oculus Rift Device (Still under construction with released date announced) Having this device will truly make you realize that finally your childhood dream come true.

You have to pair this device with headphones to not see – but feel games, live events and others like real. And not just games, this device is made to see and feel what you imagine. But how? You guys have to wait to know more about it.

What’s Next?

The above devices are yet to enter, so for next you have to wait for the arrival of devices. After that, companies will see your response to improve their devices and to build more to save and improve your digital future.

What does it mean to make Games for Microsoft’s HoloLens?

It’s not a computer, no tablet, no ipad and not a smartphone; it’s an augmented reality device – HoloLens – a completely new experience for mobile game developers. This time you are not challenged to build an ecommerce or enterprise app, this time you are challenged to build an augmented reality game. This time you have to put all your focus, efforts and skills on windows game development or I can say windows 10 game development.

Hololens is not a touchscreen device, so you can’t build a touch-based game. Tilting is not there so you can’t build a tilting based game. Then what? How a game would be build for HoloLens?

How it works? What does it based on?

HoloLens work on three basic signals: voice, gesture and gaze. It is obvious that you have to build games working on these three signals. Let’s see how a game works like this.

Voice-based Game

During initial app days, Pocket Gems published a voice based game named All Talk. At that time, it was a unique game because it was not based on any touch, but on voice. In this game, Player A gives a clue to Player B and Player B has to recognize what Player A wants to say. For e.g. Player A says cane, his voice will be recorded and go to Player B. Player B is allowed to hear the voice for 30 seconds and he will guess the word and say something related to cane like Sugar.

This is the best example of building a voice-based game for HoloLens. Game developers can build a game similar to All Talk where group of HoloLens wearers can play online. There would be no need for voice recording as the game would be played in real-time.

Some more examples of voice-based games are: an online group can play Antakshri (an Indian song singing game), knowledge based question and answer game, truth or dare, etc.

Gesture-based Game

Minecraft is a best example to explain how great a gesture-based game could be. The below video will explain you in-depth.

You can see here a man is building a whole virtual world with extreme ease using various hand gestures. This can be a biggest boost to gaming world.

Minecraft is just a beginning, in terms of gesture, game developers can go as far as they want. Imagine a virtual gun fired with the help of gesture or a steering wheel of car driven with the help of gestures. And many possibilities are there when it comes to build an adventurous game. You can enhance it more by including voice. For e.g. it’s a game of fighting between soldiers. They can command each other with voice and fire guns with gestures.

Gaze-based Game

A gaze-based game should be an eye tracking game where you have to use your eyes to do the things. This could be like a puzzle game where you are using your eyes to find the hidden things and switch to next level. Can You Escape is a similar kind of Android game. Next example would be: you can use your eyes to control virtual characters or objects. For e.g. you can find where your enemies are and shoot them with your gun.

In Conclusion

If game developers combine all the three signals, they can end up with making a great game. They can make an adventurous game. For e.g. a fighting game between two countries. A player has to track enemies with his eyes, command others with his voice and fire the enemies with its gestures.

How Minecraft Make Your Kids Familiar With Money Concepts?

Minecraft, the game doesn’t need an introduction as it is popular enough and already there in your smartphones for your kids. The game is a hot property these days proved by Microsoft who had recently shelled out $2.5 billion for Minecraft developers, Mojan AB.

The charming indie game allows players to create their own world including everything from legos to featured films and also been commonly used in Tourism. Apart from this, Minecraft acts a teacher teaching money-relevant concepts to its kids. But how? How a game can teach such an important concept to kids who don’t know anything about Money world? Let’s find out.

Comparing Minecraft Money Concepts with Real World Money Concepts

What are your financial decisions in your real life? You are struggling to earn currencies of your country and others as well. You are thinking about investment via various methods like insurance, share market, or anything from where you get good ROI.

Same things are there with Minecraft. The game furnishes users with basic currencies like emeralds to dig up and trade with villagers. It offers exchange rates to make the players realize that some things are worth more than they think. Once players achieve a good amount, their next step is to think whether they should invest their virtual earnings or save it for future rewards.

Isn’t it all what you professionals think like in your real life? Well, your Minecraft kids are also thinking like you when they are busy in their virtual world.

Comparing Minecraft with Real Life Things

 A Life is full of good things, bad things, birth, death, success, failure and much more. So as the Minecraft is. It includes death, robbery, physical attacks, and disasters from all sides. Players have to protect themselves and their assets from dangers to survive in Minecraft world.

Comparing Minecraft with Connections

In your real life, especially the professional life, the more you get connected with people, the more your work turns easier to be done. Also complications occur sometimes. Minecraft is no different at all. It allows connecting with people playing the same game and allowing them to help each other to make the things easier. For e.g. if you are playing on a server with other kids, then one player can give you as many emeralds as you need. It is like something equals to little monarchs – where little kids are like little kings of states and they can share anything with the other little kings of little states.

In Conclusion

By this way, your kids learn how to make money and how to invest it smartly in such a young age. App developers are trying to create apps like that can actually make the kids learn about real-life essential concepts. Such apps make kids grow smart. Kids learn deliberately when should they invest and when should they stop. They learn how to look for past, current and future financial situations, invest accordingly. Moreover, in bonus, your kids will learn how to explore business with other people.

iPad Game – Developed by OpenXcell

An engaging 2D game that features a spledid UI. If a bird crossing obstacles on a unicycle sounds mainstream to you then you are mistaken. The animations and the pace of the gameplay is simply amazing and keeps you hooked for so many sessions.

Mobile app development India sees streaming content going integral to apps

The next big thing that is taking shape at this moment is the area of streaming content and videos. Yes, it has been a long wait till date but with each passing day, streaming content is inching closer to our personal multimedia devices. Google’s Chromecast is yet another effort to bring streaming content closer to the users. The device is a small dongle with which the user can easily flash content on to the HDTV. A large sect of Mobile app development India believes that this can replace other secondary devices that must be connected to TVs for accessing streaming/satellite content. Since Google is also contemplating chromecast in an embedded form, it can bring massive changes in ways we consume streaming content.

The speed of internet

Speed of internet has been growing and it has easily reached a point where streaming content is not an issue anymore. Mobile application development India also validate this point as they are increasingly seeing more and more web based features in the applications. Increasing speed of the internet will definitely influence the ease of streaming content. Video content is already streamlining into the internet and meeting its ultimate destination of HDTVs. With technologies such as chromecast and its futuristic vision to come embedded in devices; it will only catalyze the market of mobile streaming content.

Only your mobile device and nothing else

Chromecast has been promoted with its own developer API which mobile app development India experts can parcel it with their apps. Just like Airplay, Chormecast option will feature in the app or in a mobile browser and users can easily stream content in their HDTV using their in-house wireless connection. This reduces the effort of users to stream multimedia content or go for special services. One of the major effects that chromecast might inflict is to stop app development for smart TVs. Everything will accumulate in the mobile including streaming media.

Mobile app development India experts are all open to see the future unfold in the field of streaming and compliment their apps with chromecast.

Unity 3d for free-Mobile game development India will boom with a dose of chaos

Android, BB and iPhone development India developers are rejoicing as Unity game engine has gone free for the basic tier of the engine. If you talk about Mobile game development India is definitely one of the most trending destinations which is bagging a lot of game development outsourcing requests these days. Despite this, preferred mobile game development platform such as Unity et. al. remained expensive till date. With a subscription fee of $800 it was not within the reach of everyone. But now with prices slashed many freelancers will be able to build their games on unity3d.

With iPhone development India going strong at the moment, it is an indication that more talent in game development will come out. Coding and game development talent is omnipresent but the hindrance for developers living in developing countries like India has been the hefty subscription charges.

While mobile game development India will flourish as the basal levels now, the development pool will also become chaotic. Free access to the tool will attract inexperienced developers who might not live up to the standards of the professional game development companies. Unity has been around in the market for quite some time now and the developers who are working on the platform have been seasoned with the application of the framework. Hence, while the free version of unity might attract new developers for lower development costs, the quality of the development will remain questionable. On the other hand while professional game development companies might charge higher, development standard of these companies will still be reliable at this moment.

Facebook home set for a new design

Facebook’s home app has been rated down by thousands of users. Really the app isn’t cool and takes away the native android experience away from the users. People who spend a lot of customizing their home screen can feel offended by the intrusive nature of the application and this is what exactly happened after users installed the app. Seeing this Facebook has now decided to rope in its mobile app developer again to create a layered form of application that does not intrude the android experience of users. It is important for Facebook to create a substantial application as it has to create its dominance in the mobile.

Facebook has been facing competition from messenger apps like whatsapp which are always online and challenge facebook’s dominance on the mobile platform. If the application can be adjusted according to the likes and dislikes of users, Facebook’s overall usage time on Smartphone can increase drastically.

What’s in for users?

Obviously, better mobile experience for Facebook and their favorite apps. But along with users, mobile game development experts and Facebook itself gains a lot from making a native app which is online every time. It has been observed that Facebook home increases the online time for FB users by 30% and if it accelerates, then Facebook can increase its revenues from app installs in smart phones. Hence, following this strategy Facebook can generate a lot of revenues and also become a lot more valuable for mobile app developers too.