Moon Energetic takes purpose at Scopely, Roblox opens doorways to Primary IPs, and Rollic’s $100m hit

Moon Energetic delicate released Coin Grasp – Board Journey difficult Scopely’s Monopoly Pass.
Roblox’s License Supervisor grants more straightforward get admission to to Primary IPs equivalent to Stranger Issues.
Rollic assessments over 1000 concepts a month resulting in polished hits like Colour Block Jam.

The video games trade strikes briefly and whilst tales might come and cross there are some that we simply can not let cross of…

So, to provide the ones specifically thorny subjects an additional going over we’ve got created a weekly digest the place the individuals of the PocketGamer.biz group percentage their ideas and cross that little bit deeper on probably the most extra fascinating issues that experience took place in cellular gaming previously week.

Craig Chapple

Head of Content material

Moon Energetic takes on Scopely with Monopoly Pass-like Coin Grasp – Board Journey

I like a excellent video games trade competition and this week Moon Energetic stepped as much as the plate. And it has Scopely sq. in its points of interest.

As PocketGamer.biz noticed this week on AppMagic, the developer has soft-launched Coin Grasp – Board Journey on Google Play within the Philippines.

The name marks the primary enlargement of the multi-billion buck blockbuster this is Coin Grasp (now not counting Zoo Grasp). However much more fascinating is how Moon Energetic is taking the struggle to Scopely.

Monopoly Pass has been the largest cellular release of the previous few years, racking up greater than $5 billion as of Might 2025. The name, which went via years in construction and a reboot, stripped core gameplay components of Coin Grasp – the raid mechanics and village development – and added the vintage board sport on most sensible of it.

Monopoly Pass then ate Coin Grasp’s lunch. Don’t fear, each video games nonetheless make some huge cash.

Now Moon Energetic is returning the favour – it’s ripping the board sport and cube roll taste from Scopely for its personal name.

Who is aware of how a hit this might be. For all its huge luck, Coin Grasp isn’t the Monopoly IP. However Moon Energetic is aware of how you can scale hits – it now has a couple of in its locker, together with Shuttle The town, remaining yr’s maximum profitable merge sport.

I’ll be grabbing the popcorn for this conflict of titans.

Roblox License Supervisor arms creators primary IP for video games

Roblox’s License Supervisor gets rid of a large hurdle for smaller creators to paintings with some primary IPs, making the entire thing a ways much less time eating.

Reasonably than desiring to be told the entire sides of running with an IP, probably getting attorneys concerned that then spend months of back-and-forth to figure out an settlement, Roblox creators now have a extra streamlined approach to acquire the rights to paintings with make a selection IPs.

This is not to mention it may not nonetheless have its demanding situations, however it is an exhilarating prospect for indies and smaller groups, who most likely do not have concept to check out and acquire the rights to those IPs earlier than or did take a look at however at nice expense of effort and time.

The License Supervisor is in its early levels and is these days with only some IPs to paintings with. I do additionally marvel how the income cut up works when you get get admission to with some of the decided on IPs and what sort of freedom you might have with what you get to create.

Whilst there might nonetheless be some uncertainty round how the whole lot will fall into position, a gadget that simplifies the method of running with giant names items a singular alternative for each creators and IP holders.

Necessarily, they acquire a complete host of other folks in need of to create with their IP, requiring minimum direct involvement. I’m going to be looking at how the License Supervisor evolves through the years and I might be intrigued to listen to what creators make of in reality the use of it.

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How Rollic scored a $100m hybridcasual hit through ideating 1,000 video games a month

Rollic’s Colour Block Jam has accomplished record-breaking participant spending for the studio, making $100 million plus advert income and proving the payoff of its shift from hypercasual to hybridcasual.

I spoke with Rollic’s vice chairman of gaming Utku Erdinç to be told extra concerning the corporate’s evolving technique, the way it defines hybridcasual, and to realize deeper perception into what’s made Colour Block Jam this kind of hit.

Within the procedure, I additionally discovered concerning the sport’s sturdy D90 retention and the way it fulfills a distinct segment for veteran players of the puzzle style, with its issue intrinsically related to its a laugh issue for plenty of.

It appears, Rollic ideates greater than one thousand video games per 30 days and assessments masses of prototypes over that very same duration. At this tempo, it’s little wonder that the video games that extend complete release are so fine-tuned.

And, it’s additionally no wonder that there are extra titles within the pipeline, together with a tease of initiatives with licenced IP.