Marvel Puzzle Quest Concept

Just recently we got a great UI improvement to the game, which makes match selection much easier.

MPQ at a competitive level (or for those who want to optimize their effort/reward relation) is built around speed. The quicker you fight matches in PVE, the higher your placement is. The quicker you fight in PVP, the less you get hit by others and can hit more nodes.

Thus, the game itself should be optimized to make playing this way as convenient as possible, while still retaining the slot-machine like "click-click-click" rewards.

The main focus of this concept is:

• placement of buttons to continue a PVE/PVP battle phase from start to finish as convenient as possible.
• High-end players utilize boosts and need to restock fairly often. This is currently a really cumbersome effort, that I would like to optimize.
• Vital player information (enemies and your current health levels) in the current implementation is too small or missing.

This concept surely has its shortcomings too, but I hope for it to be "food for thought" on improving the current implementation. It's already there for 80% of the way!

On each of the following slides you can see an emoji in the bottom left corner that explains some thoughts of the view. Click on it to show/hide that information.

Demo is optimized for mobile safari browser. On desktop browsers you might need to adapt your zoom settings.

VIP!

Some convenience things are specifically not adressed in my concept because it might be a monetarization idea to realize that. Specifically:

• Get more than 6 saved teams for VIPs
• Add a "automatically restock" toggle for any boost. If that option is checked, the game will use ISO automatically to rebuy stock.
• Add an "disable banner animations" toggle for VIPs, because if boosts are used, we really need to wait a long time to see the board for making a first match.
• Add a "claim all" button to Vaults/Tokens, to get the rewards into the inventory all at once. The current "+10" opening methods are halfway there already.
• Allow to move the game area on larger devices to not be vertically centered only, but be able to move the whole screen to be top- or bottom-aligned. This would allow us to run an iOS picture-in-picture videoplayer on the bottom or top of the screen; currently it overlays too much of the gaming area.

Contact

This mockup is for inspiration purposes only. Assets and are is subject to copyright by D3/DemiUrge/Marvel. This concept will be removed in a few weeks from this site. Reach me at mpq (at) asware.net.