Where to look for ideas for hyper-casual games?

Which sources and sites should be monitored if you are developing hyper—casual games, – told in the material for App2Top.ru Anatoly Maksimov, developer and one of the founders of the Telegram channel HYPER CASUAL.

Anatoly Maksimov
I know firsthand how difficult it is to find a new idea for my next game or prototype, so I want to share the sites and life hacks that I use in development myself.

fnd
An excellent website that allows you to monitor the movement of applications in the top in any category.

In the development of hyper-casual games, we are interested in the American gaming top.

fnd2. Storeglide

A great tool for tracking all new games in the App Store.

You can always open and see how the game world lives, in which direction it is developing.

Storeglide3. Instagram

For a developer of hyper-casual games, Instagram is a useful tool for tracking the market situation. I advise you to subscribe to three channels in it:

• hypercasualgamedevstoreglide
• hypercasualhub
• Instagram — hypercasualhub

4. Twitter

It would seem banal advice, but subscribing to developers and publishers on Twitter also helps a lot in finding ideas. It is difficult to single out something specific, but I would like to note the following useful tags:

• madewithunityindiedev
• Twitter — indiedev

5. Reddit

Now the satisfying direction is very popular in hyper-casual games (we are talking about mechanics that allow the player to enjoy the process itself and watching it, and not just from the result or overcoming obstacles, Thomas Dubreuil from Voodoo even calls satisfying one of the three main criteria for the success of a hyper-casual game).

In this regard, I will highlight the oddlysatisfying subreddit. It contains a large number of videos with “satisfaction from the process”.

Reddit — oddlysatisfying6. Pinterest

Don’t forget about Pinterest.

Basically, it helps to find inspiration for an idea that has already been selected. You just start watching the feed by interesting keywords and phrases. Thus, it is possible to more clearly outline the mechanics and find new chips for the game.

Pinterest***

These are the main sources that I would like to highlight.

If you have your own methods and techniques for selecting ideas, write in the comments or visit us on the Hyper Casual Telegram channel.

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