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Jakarta, Indonesia - 03 September 2018

5 Types of Instant game You Must Know

Instant game started to gain people attention these days. But, a very little of people who played instant game understand the meaning behind the name. According to the Oxford dictionary, instant means happening or coming immediately, prepared quickly and with little effort, a very short time; a moment. Then instant game means a game that needs a little effort to be played or can be played immediately.

The example of place that make instant game gaining attention is Facebook Instant game. Here, Facebook put the instant game in Facebook Messenger with intention that the user of messenger can play while chatting with their friends or play together with their friends.

Then corresponding to the meaning there are 5 common type of instant game:

  1. Match Game

It is a game where you try to match an object two or more to accomplish the goal or to earn a point. This game difficulty is varied depending on the context of the game or the obstacle you get from the game.

The example of this game is Candy Crush : Tsum Tsum and the upcoming game from Melon Gaming Ltd. called Sushi Sekai.

  1. Endless Run Game

This type of game usually tests the player concentration because in this type of game there is no end. Similar to its name Endless Run, this game presents a main character that is running or objects moving in the rail or road.

The player needs to direct the main character or object to collect things that earn a point and avoid the obstacle or going or the road provided. The Example for this type of game is Slip Master and Ninja Run.

  1. Arcade Game

It is usually a game you play with a machine inside building in the old days; like Basketball, bowling and Whack a Mole. But, with everything digitalize you can play that game trough your phone and not with the machine.

The Example of this game is Garden Invasion, Super Bowling, and Swipe Basketball.

  1. Rhythm Game

The rhythm game is a game that requires music and player need to press the button according to the rhythm of the music. The difficulty of this game is according to the rhythm of the music played. The faster the music the fast the player needs to press the button. The example of this game is Guitar Hit, Music Tiles, and Perfect Piano.

  1. Card Game

This classic game with the card also becomes digitalized now a day. For, you who like to play card game but have no one to play with or too lazy to buy a deck of card you can play it through your phone. The example of this game is UNO, Poker, Solitaire and BlackJack 21.

 

So, for you who aspire to make an instant game, you can choose one of the 5 types of the game above for starter. The example provides above also can be found in Facebook Instant Game. Don't forget that Facebook Instant game is an HTML5 platform game and you can use melonJS as your game engine because melonJS is an HTML5 game engine that fully supported by Facebook Instant Game.