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How To Design Machines Without Reels
How To Design Machines Without Reels In Heart of Vegas’ Ball Drop Rock, players spin to drop 20 balls onto a Plinko-style board with prize buckets. To ensure gameplay feels familiar, the machine adapts traditional slots bonuses to the Plinko...
How To Design Successful Sweepstakes
How To Design Successful Sweepstakes In Two Dots’ Paradise Prize Pot, players engage in four anniversary events to earn entries for a sweepstakes that awards an $11,000 cash prize, premium currency, and branded merchandise. The anniversary events...
Creating Streamlined Alternatives to Base Gameplay
Creating Alternatives to Base Gameplay Clash Royale’s Merge Tactics adds a full-scale auto-chess mode using cards from the app’s base game, complete with a league progression and IAPs. This mode simplifies several aspects of auto-chess gameplay,...
Built-In Competitions With High Stakes
Built-In Competitions With High Stakes In Bingo Frenzy’s Bingo Magic room, two players compete to fill a meter by daubing spaces and completing bingos. Only the winner earns tokens to advance the room’s main progression, which makes each round...
Add Retention Mechanics to Reel Enhancements
Add Retention Mechanics to Reel Enhancements In Cashman Casino’s Furever Fortunes, certain symbols fill a meter that grants a series of reel enhancements that remain active during all spins, making them extremely valuable. However, players must...
End-of-Season Collection Pushes Are a Win-Win
End-of-Season Collection Pushes Are a Win-Win Toon Blast’s Wild Journey lets players accelerate their collection progress during the season’s final week by completing base game levels to fill a series of nine meters that exclusively award...
How To Improve Long-Running Collections
How To Improve Long-Running Collections MARVEL SNAP’s Snap Packs are a major rework of the app’s core card-collecting progression. In the previous system, base game milestones awarded a chance to open a weekly loot box containing four cards, but...
Monopoly GO! Transforms Daily Competitions Into a Seasonal Progression
Monopoly GO! Builds on Its Daily Competitions Monopoly GO!’s Tycoon Express offers a seasonal progression with seven levels that are tied to the app’s daily tournaments. Players now earn tokens based on their tournament ranking, and reaching...
Turn Near-Wins Into Bonus Upgrades
Turn Near-Wins Into Bonus Upgrades In Jackpot Friends’ Thunderous Riches, players land specific symbols during base and free spins to upgrade prizes for a wheel and trigger a respin bonus. In respins, the number of symbols players land determines...
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