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BBEOL MAGAZINE / ARCADE STORIES

Made, played, and documented.
Stories from our games.

Play notes with concrete board examples, the reasons behind interface changes, and accounts of bugs we fixed.

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One-Minute Games: Free Browser Games for a Quick Break, No Download

Free browser games that take about a minute: perfect for a coffee break, a queue or waiting for the kettle. Candy Pop, Paper Flight, Number Pop and Make Ten, sorted by round length, all playable on phone or PC with no download or sign-up.

· 3 min -
Play notes

5 Free Browser Games With No Download: Bored? One Link and You're In

Five free games you can play right in your browser with no app download or sign-up: the number-chain puzzle Number Pop, box-to-ten Make Ten, paper plane game Paper Flight, color-sort puzzle Hexa Tap and the one-minute Halloween match-3 Candy Pop, with what each is best for.

· 4 min -
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17 Number Pop Achievements: From Legend Pop to a 7-Day Streak

Number Pop now has 17 achievements. Here is the full list for Score Challenge, Popbot Duel and the Daily Challenge, with tips for unlocking them, titles and cosmetic rewards (tile flavors, pop effects, Popbot outfits, backgrounds), the new unlock celebration and home-screen progress card, plus a faster first load.

· 3 min -
Dev Note

Last Longer the Better You Play: Number Pop v0.7 Balance Overhaul

Experts and beginners both finished Score Challenge in two minutes, combo bonuses made up 40% of the score, and beginners beat the Practice bot every time. Here is what hundreds of simulated runs revealed and everything we changed in Number Pop v0.7.

· 6 min -
Dev Note

The Bot We Built for Testing Made the Game Run Forever

We built an admin auto-play bot for testing, only to discover an infinite loop bug where the 90-second timer stayed completely full even past 226 points at LV.5 Master. Here is the actual capture and video footage.

· 3 min -