Supercell sport designer Alex Roque lately celebrated a 12 months engaged on the hit sport Conflict of Clans, and has spoken to Recreation Developer.com relating to his work on the sport, together with his work on the Builder Base mode.
Conflict of Clans was first launched in 2012, and has launched Supercell into the enviable place of being one of many high sport makers within the cell area. Nevertheless, the Builder Base mode went a while with out an replace. Supercell introduced a 2.0 rework in November 2022, with Roque as one of many builders engaged on the challenge.
And uncharacteristically for the ever-evolving cell hit, Supercell had tried and been unable to discover a path ahead for the mode.
“It was simply plenty of conferences and discussions the place the entire staff was current,” Roque instructed Recreation Developer. “All people may pitch in. Then, the designers stepped out, mentioned the assembly, went again to them with concepts, mentioned extra, and so forth. It was actually cool how over time these huge concepts took type. In some unspecified time in the future there was even a pitching spherical the place individuals may very well be like, okay, ‘what do I wish to do with builder base?’, and a number of the concepts of these pitches truly went into the sport. After we had form of the path, then it was discussing particulars and executing principally.”
Constructing on success
Roque defined that whereas the staff appreciated the combination of tactical and puzzle gameplay, they recognized a number of points with pacing, which merely providing extra ranges didn’t tackle. As such the staff needed to suppose outdoors the field in an effort to discover a resolution which might permit them to increase the sport mode.
“It was an attention-grabbing choice, as an alternative of constructing extra content material, let’s return to the core and repair the issue, in order that then we will add extra content material,” mentioned Roque.
Though a core staff labored on Builder Base 2.0, discussions relating to its future concerned a a lot bigger staff, giving all people the chance to make strategies and perceive the reasoning behind any adjustments.
“I feel, while you’re doing one thing this huge, you want the staff to be aligned on the path and perceive what they’re doing. The same old course of is like, any individual comes up with an answer or one thing they wanna do, pitch it to the staff, and see who else desires to affix in. A small group attends, discusses it in depth, and comes again with an answer.”
The staff additionally consulted with the sport’s group, serving to them establish issues from the angle of a participant. Analysis had proven that gamers weren’t notably invested within the mode, which led to Supercell placing extra effort into different areas till they’d a agency plan in place to drive engagement. Nevertheless, Roque acknowledged that whereas gamers may establish issues, they had been much less profitable when it got here to suggesting any adjustments.
We listed Supercell as one of many high 50 cell sport makers of 2022.
