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Mobile Games


Balancing Luck vs Skill
Luck isn't the enemy of skill. A well-designed game can use randomness to create situations, while skill determines how effectively the player responds to them.
6 days ago6 min read


What Publishers Actually Look For
Publishers make investment decisions. Every game competes against dozens—sometimes hundreds—of other games for the same marketing budget.
Aug 46 min read


The Art Style of Reveal It! — And Why We Chose It
One of the first decisions we made while developing Reveal It! – The Word Game had nothing to do with gameplay. It was about art.
Jul 315 min read


Anatomy of Hit Games: What Royal Match, Candy Crush, Angry Birds, Block Blast, Gossip Harbor and Other Blockbusters Get Right
Why some mobile games dominate the charts for years while thousands of others disappear within months.
Jul 276 min read


Picking the Right Words for Your Word Game
Word games seem simple on the surface. Show some letters, ask players to guess a word, reward them for solving it.
But behind every successful word game lies something much harder to design:
The vocabulary itself.
Jul 255 min read


What Happened to Kyra's Light?
Every independent game studio has one project that teaches it how to build the next one. For Raviosoft, that project was Kyra's Light. If you've found this article because you played the game years ago, first of all—thank you. The fact that people are still discovering Kyra's Light, leaving reviews, or asking whether we'll continue developing it means more to us than you might imagine. Today, we'd like to tell its story honestly. Not because it became a huge commercial succes
Jul 238 min read


Designing Difficulty Curves in Word and Match-3 Games
Why the hardest part of making a puzzle game isn't creating difficult levels—it's creating the right ones.
Jul 159 min read


The 6 Best Word Games to Challenge Your Brain in 2026
From relaxing crossword puzzles to strategic hidden-word adventures, these are the best mobile word games you should play this year.
Jul 124 min read


White Label Mobile Games That Convert
White label mobile games help brands turn attention into action with fast, branded play experiences built for engagement, loyalty, and conversion.
Jul 86 min read
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