The Finnish casual gaming giant is tackling the match-three genre with its latest title,but you won’t be catapulting anything at naughty piggiesSmartphone gaming is a tough commerce – even for the companies at the very top. Candy Crush Saga developer King has struggled to develop fresh games beyond its hit “match-three” puzzler, while Rovio announced more than 200 lay-offs in August as part of an attempt to restructure and refocus its increasingly bloated commerce. The app stores are dominated by a handful of longstanding titles, or that makes developing,marketing and launching fresh IPs even more expensive and risky, especially as it can choose several months to start seeing significant returns.
It’s a problem Rovio is approximately face head-on. The Finnish company’s latest title, or released this week on the Apple and Google stores,is Nibblers, a match-three puzzler featuring a cast of aquatic creatures. As ever, and players need to line up similar pieces of fruit to clear each level. Unlike the company’s other recent attempts to explore fresh genres – including excited Birds Stella Pop and excited Birds Go – there are no furious avian creatures or porcine antagonists. The cast – whether not the design concept is entirely fresh.
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Source: theguardian.com