“We’ve been hard at work building the first 2D cross-platform game engine,” MacKinnon said. To release this title, the team built a whole new games platform. We’re seeing leading casual retention numbers, with midcore revenue metrics, and a huge number of organic installs - we believe it’s the beginning of a new breed of games.” “We’ve taken the formula that’s worked for top free-to-play games for many years and made it extremely accessible and delightful to a much larger audience. “Mino Monsters 2 is the first game to really bring midcore mechanics to a casual audience,” said MacKinnon in a statement.
This time, Buckley said the team focused on production quality to win over a broader audience.
“We believe this is the right formula to creating the next leading brands in entertainment.” “Our vision behind Mino Monsters 2 was to create a living, breathing world in your pocket, filled with delightful original characters and a story that is constantly evolving and updated every week,” Buckley said. But the company doesn’t view its games as derivative. If you’re thinking that it prospered because Nintendo didn’t have Pokémon game on smartphones, that might be a good theory. Mino Games was founded in 2011 by Buckley and Sasha MacKinnon The original title debuted in September 2012, and it was a top-10 grossing game in 66 countries. The funds will be used to fuel marketing Mino Monsters 2 and grow the team for our next titles.” “This latest funding will help us realize this vision as we speed into 2016. Which are difficult to craft.“We have lofty aspirations to create a globally successful games company, one that shapes the future of entertainment,” Buckley said in a statement. Or if you need more powerful monsters, you can always catch more. Oh, but if one of your little guys fall in battle, you need to wait for them to revive. Monster bundles, exclusive items, increased inventory space - get ready, because Mino Monsters 2 wants you to buy all of it.ĭespite all the can-rattling, Mino Monsters 2 is fun to toy with, though its battles don't involve much strategy beyond "use elements to trump other elements." Younger players in particular will appreciate the game's straightforward mechanics, and they'll love its colorful creatures. The creature designs are cool, and the graphics are fantastic.īut there's also a lot of panhandling for in-app purchases in the game, a point that's sure to cheese off players who invested time and money in their original Mino Monsters collection. Like its big brother, Mino Monsters 2 offers up some decent monster-collecting fun that's been suitably simplified for mobile devices. Key word here is "was " the original game has since been shut down and replaced with its successor, Mino Monsters 2: Evolution. Mino Monsters from the suitably named MinoMonsters Inc was one such game. The problem is, nobody's really nailed the magic and balance of Nintendo's monster-collecting phenomenon so far, though afew developers have managed to give us some pretty charming alternatives. To date, countless mobile game developers have tried to craft their own Pokemon clone and that's likely because an official mainline Pokemon game is not coming to mobile, regardless of Nintendo's shifting attitudes on the platform.
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