Case study
Browser game development

Flash Words

Puzzle

Customer country

Development timeline

Budget

Team

Ukraine

March 2014 → July 2014 = 90 days

$4 000

8 experts

1 game designer
1 manager
3 engineers
3 artists

Vision

WORDS is a puzzle game for social media platforms Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki. The playable character is an Elk, who lost his memory after a blow, and is now restoring the chain of events that had taken place over the previous few days.

The player's task is to help restore the character's memory by entering a word from the picture into the appropriate field. The image is shown in fragments on the game screen, the faster the player guesses the word, the more coins he gets.

The words cover different categories:
• art;
• birds;
• fruits
• actors;
• berries;
• animals;
• cartoons;
• architecture;
• capital cities;
• popular singers;
• cartoon characters.

There are 25 words in each category. For the sake of greater thrill, the most difficult word is the last one on the list of questions. The reward for the last word is higher.

Development

It took 90 days to develop.

Over this time we:
• Did voice-over.
• Developed a CMS.
• Introduced daily and hourly bonuses.
• Integrated API for Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki.
• Implemented 5 game categories, 25 words each.
• Created a social panel featuring the statuses of friends.
• Enabled control using an on-screen and physical keyboard.
• Made the game generate profit from selling in-game currency.
• Implemented a feature of inviting friends from the social panel.
• Prepared the game for special season sales with a change of artwork: Halloween, New Year’s, Christmas.