Major game development is usually a painstaking and long process. Few major games are simple affairs. When I wrote before about the rise of bedroom programmers and I forgot something. Casual games, and flash developers. Long ago there were simple arcade games. Something to play for 5 to 10 minutes. Its relatively fast to make a casual game. So you end up with games based on news items. And in the case of Layoff, the Tilt Factor created game is based on the economic climate. Its really a twisted Bejewelled clone. The aim of the game is to line up three or more employees of the same type by swapping adjacent employees. If you lay off enough employees, (the catch is you can’t get rid of the managers), you become eligible for a bailout (that rearranges the board). Simple, and twisted. Are they any other “turned out quickly games” based … There’s more →