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Play’n GO: Off the Grid
Grid Slots have become one of online casino’s
fastest growing segments in recent years, and the undisputed champion of the genre is Play’n GO. G3 sits down with the studio’s Games Ambassador, Magnus Wallentin, to discover how this unique type of title is built.
How do Play'n GO's Grid Slots work?
For us, Grid Slots are about delivering a different type of gameplay experience compared to a standard 5x3 or similar. For the player, it’s less about paylines and more about building wins by creating clusters of matching symbols. It’s really something quite unique and not easy to replicate.
We’ve been producing Grid Slots for a few years now - including some older 3x3 games like Queen’s Day Tilt, our recent hexagonal title Honey Rush 100, and of course the stone-cold classic Tome of Madness. Te specific mechanics differ, but the general approach of cluster building matching symbols is what gives the games that particular feel players love.
How different is the design process compared to traditional titles that use a payline system for wins?
Grid Slots have become a huge trend in online casino, and you can trace the origins of this back to the global success of Candy Crush. Many have tried to jump on the bandwagon, but the truth is that Play’n GO Grid Slots are so beloved because it takes an immense amount of expertise to build these games.
Each of our titles has one-of-a-kind game mechanics combined with unparalleled storytelling, and everything is brought together in a way that is intuitive to the player. Tat’s not easy to do.
It’s also not enough to simply copy what others are doing. We’re always looking to push the genre forward; we recently launched our first cluster pays game which is also a Grid Slot, and it challenges players to match six OAK symbols anywhere to create a win, with no alignment or adjacency needed. It’s this sort of out-of-the-
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Magnus Wallentin Games Ambassador Play’n GO
Grid Slots have become a huge trend in online casino, and you can trace the origins of this back to the global
success of Candy Crush. Many have tried to jump on the bandwagon, but the truth is
that Play’n GO Grid Slots are so beloved because it takes an immense amount of expertise to build these games.
box thinking that has made Play’n GO the market leader in Grid Slots.
Prior to going live, how confident were you that the Grid Slots formula was going to be a success?
I’d firstly say there isn’t necessarily a formula here. If there was, building these games would be simple. Tere’s always a degree of experimentation when you are creating new
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