Casual Game Design

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SUMMARY

to release. While it is clear to the player the Snoods are offset, it makes parsing the

overall grid slightly harder work. Quite often you will fire off a Snood to have it land

and snap into a slightly different position than first imagined. You compensate for

the offset, but it requires more mental processing power, keeping you more engaged

with the game.

Snood provides an excellent example of how a few rule tweaks to a familiar game

can produce a game that looks functionally the same as another, but actually engen-

ders a very different experience. Often dismissed by more experienced gamers as a

simple clone of Puzzle Bobble