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Actually, this is what happened after the launch. In addition, the audiences of both genres intersect, and the original Gardenscapes fans will be happy to play match-3. We felt that in the end there would be many fans of the new version. On the other hand, the match-3 genre is wider than ISpy. There is a possibility that after the release of the game, some fans of the original Gardenscapes were upset. Don’t you think it’s painful for users to accept the change? By the way, how do you see the target audience? Has it changed since the first games in the series? I am sure that the original Gardenscapes has a large community. As for functions, about one-third is programmers, next third – artists and animators, the rest – game designers and managers. There were more than 50 people maximum, half of them worked remotely. How many people worked on the project at the same time? Our professionals can easily switch to a different task. However, the purpose of Playrix is to create hits and when we saw that the match-3 version is better, it became clear what to do.Īs for the transition, the company already had some necessary experience, so it was relatively painless. It’s not so simple to change the course of development when the game is almost ready. How did employees embrace the change of the course? Did the change of root mechanics demand the change of its core team? The current project was initially developed as a hidden object game. For us, it is more important to pay attention to already released games and those that are now in development.

We do not seek to increase the number of games and are focused on quality. All new graphics is not even half of what we would have to do. We may decide to release such a game, but in any case, it will be a huge amount of work for us. Will there be ISpy anyway? Or you just have to draw too many assets for it and it doesn’t worth it? Then we decided to transform the mechanics so that it wouldn’t be identical to the Fishdom one and it took three months more.

It happened during the soft launch stage. In fact, we based the game on the match-3 part of Fishdom and redrawn its graphic assets. It could take much more if we didn’t have Fishdom. You can say we used all the content except the levels. We transferred some of the quests, but some were simply removed. For example, there were story quests to find certain items in different rooms: screwdrivers to loosen something in the garden, etc. Yes, we transferred almost everything, except some small things, which were strongly tied to the HOG mechanics. So you transferred all the content from ISpy version to match-3 one? How much time did you spend on the first version and how much did the transition take? Top Grossing Games in Russia, iPhone / iPad, 3rd day of Gardenscapes release The result convinced us that we should release this version of the game, though metrics of the HOG version were on the hit level too. We decided to experiment and put together the finished garden from Gardenscapes and match-3 of Fishdom. After Fishdom soft launch we thought that “match-3 + garden” may also work. This happened when ISpy-version of Gardenscapes was almost ready.

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How is it possible? The series was a HOG for seven years and suddenly turned into match-3? How and why did this happen? Top Grossing Apps US (App Store, iPad), September 7, 2016 The game reached Top 15 grossing apps for iPad in the United States in the first week.

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On the first day, Gardenscapes entered the Top 10 free games for iPhone and iPad in 100 countries.

Yes, the game rapidly broke into the tops of Europe, the Americas and many other regions.

And a recent AppAnnie report clearly showed the success of the game. We wrote that on the first day the game had more than a million downloads and got in Top 150 grossing games in the US.

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