Crosswords Planet is a full-screen flash puzzle game offering topic-based crosswords.
Designed for social media platforms VKontakte and Odnoklassniki.
The player is encouraged to solve topic-based crosswords in various categories: • cars; • food; • music; • money; • movies; • animals; • fairy tales; • celebrities; • astronomy; • Geography; • architecture and design.
The player is awarded stars for solving the crossword puzzle. A new category opens after using a booster or accumulating the required number of stars.
Each word comes with an image. The game generates profit through the purchase of internal gaming currency for the boosters.
Penguin v1
Penguin redesign
Development
It took a total of 90 days to develop.
Over this time we • Did voice acting. • Developed a CMS. • Redesigned the game. • Made the settings menu. • Integrated VKontakte API and Odnoklassniki API. • Used social media advertising to promote the game. • Implemented using the on-screen and physical keyboard. • Implemented 12 game categories with 50 crosswords in each. • Introduced profit generating through internal gaming currency. • Introduced a social panel featuring ratings and statuses of friends. • Prepared a game for changing background during holiday sales: Halloween, New Year, Christmas. • Implemented the feature of sending invitations to friends: the player is awarded coins for every player they bring.
Posters v1
Final posters
Game mechanics
Boosters
• see the topic; • see part of the image; • see vowels - for long words; • see a random letter - for short words.
Bonuses
Players get bonuses for: • inviting friends; • playing the game every day; • reporting errors in the game.
Ask a friend
Make a post with the current question in the crossword puzzle.
Internal currency
Boosters are purchased using the internal currency of the game.
Result
• The total number of installations on all platforms reached 500K+. • Over the first week after the launch, there were 1000+ players online daily. • The game Crosswords Planet was developed and introduced to social media platforms Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki.