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This is an excerpt of the article that was recollected from flipboard, as to generate a clip of interesting news from the topics that i think are important and I want to save for further references and share with my readers. The original article is posted on gamedesigning.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hyper Casual Games 101<\/h2>\n

Hyper casual games have been trending for a couple of years now, google trends reflects on its graphs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While it may not seem like it, Hyper Casual (HC)<\/strong>, is a genre that has been trending with a lot of strengh in the mobile platforms and slowly make a clear division line between the other casual genres, and the following article is very good at desconstruct in a very easy and understandable way,<\/p>\n

For the most part, HC games are differentiated from Casual games by main taking out of the game design equation all the complexities that you can find and summarizing it to its barebone.<\/p>\n

– Minimalist design<\/p>\n

– Minimalist art<\/p>\n

– One single mechanic that his replicated overtime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Growth of Hyper Casual Games<\/h2>\n

Arguably, the first-ever HC game<\/strong> revolved around a certain round yellow ball that we\u2019ve all come to love: Pac Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Pac Man was a game you could spend a few minutes on or several hours, depending on how many quarters you had and if your parents were on the verge of killing you.
\nWhile it\u2019s true that the gameplay of Tetris is a little bit more complicated than Pac Man, it still falls under the Hyper Casual title.<\/p>\n

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That was in 1980 and the next big identifier in the HC space didn\u2019t come for another 9 years in the form of another blocky friend; Tetris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s true that the gameplay of Tetris is a little bit more complicated than Pac Man, it still falls under the Hyper Casual title.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s mostly because little old grandmas who\u2019ve been playing the game for 20-30 years now could beat you easily, a fact that makes it a very accessible game to boot.<\/p>\n

Of course, it wasn\u2019t until the internet came in the 90s that casual games started flourishing. I\u2019m sure many of you are familiar with names like \u2018Big Fish Games<\/a>\u2019 or \u2018PopCap Games<\/a>\u2019, all studios that became big with the birth of the internet.<\/p>\n

Sites like Kongregate<\/a> and Newgrounds<\/a> became a heaven for those who wanted to play these games by hosting dozens and hundreds of these types of games.<\/p>\n

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As for Hyper Casual games themselves, 2017 is what could be described as the ascendency of Hyper Casual games. Unfortunately, it\u2019s impossible to pinpoint which game really catalyzed the modern Hyper Casual game market<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But either way, the past 2-3 years have seen a large rise in these games with oversimplified UI and mechanics.<\/p>\n

On a side note, it\u2019s possible that this rise in HC games is due to millennials starting to hit their mid to late 30s and wanting to recapture the spirit of the games they used to play in the late 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s. That\u2019s just speculation though.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to hear a bit more about the rise of hyper-casual games, check out \u2018What\u2019s The Hype with Hyper-Casual Games?<\/a>\u2019<\/p>\n

The 20 Most Popular Hyper Casual Games<\/h2>\n

Of course, it\u2019s all well and good to talk about what hyper-casual games are in a general sense, but over here we want to give you a more direct sense of what we\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n