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Gamasutra Blogs:  Life, addictive game mechanics, and the truth hiding in Bejeweled - by Erin Hoffman

Games Brief:  Surprising move: PopCap raises $22.5 million

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Life, addictive game mechanics, and the truth hiding in Bejeweled - by Erin Hoffman
Gamasutra Blogs — One of the occupational hazards of being a game designer is an obligation to play up-and-coming games, both to stay ahead of where the market is moving and to dig for signs of the One True Game Design, aka universal mechanics that move people. Lately there's been a lot of buzz around Bejeweled Blitz , so I dug in for a sample today. Blitz takes the familiar Bejeweled mechanic, itself going back along the Columns lineage in games, and makes you play it fast. They bolt on a bunch of social features -- leaderboards and achievements -- making it massively multiplayer in a ...

Surprising move: PopCap raises $22.5 million
Games Brief — ... They’ve made great headway with Bejewelled Blitz but still have to prove that a company whose DNA is in product-based games can shift to a service model. But at least they’ve got $22.5 million to spend ...

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