Every hit is exhilarating, but the perfect hit is dramatically better. The game Baseball Boy by Voodoo focus’ a players attention on a single baseball bat hit as the only action the player has. The rest of the games feel and creativity relies on exploiting small inaccuracies in the tap to reduce the player’s ability to win, usually in the form of a high score. Only the perfect tap will bring the maximum score. Precision is the most important aspect of the action and the focus for the user is perfection. In a game that is pure tap and timing gameplay, the mechanic relies upon an exact tap or an exact timing. Most of the other mechanics use tapping or timing as an input method for their particular gameplay. Tap and Timing games are the most popular form of mechanics for hyper casual games. You might also enjoy our follow up article to this, in our Top 7 Idle Game Mechanics article. Here’s a breakdown of the current top 10 game mechanics for hyper casual gaming on the app store and what to remember when building a game using them. For them whichever game succeeds is how they will grow, but for game developers, history is a valuable teacher and seeing what worked in the past can help in the future. As I mentioned in the Voodoo article, Voodoo doesn’t care about your game design, they care about the market’s perception of your game design. Stick with 90% what you know and try to create a 10% twist. Most great games are often a merging of two mechanics with a twist of innovation. When coming up with new game ideas, you often want to look around you for inspiration.
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