Game types - Lobyco Help center

The game type decides what kind of gameplay your customers play, such as a scratchcard or a quiz. You pick it first when you design the gameplay, and you can’t change it afterwards.

At a glance

Gameplay design opens on Games types, with a card for each type. The badge on each card shows its group.

Group	Game types
Luck	Wheels of fortune, Scratchcard, Spin the bottle, Rock paper scissors, Slot machine, Roll the dice, Roulette, Tap to reveal
Skill	Memory game, Drop game, Shoot it, Slice it, Match matrix, Bounce battle
Knowledge	Quiz, Calendar, Guess the image

The Gameplay design start page, with Toolbox open in the side menu and Gameplay design selected. Under the heading Games types are 17 cards, each with an icon, the type's name and a badge for its group. Wheels of fortune, Scratchcard, Spin the bottle, Rock paper scissors, Slot machine, Roll the dice, Roulette and Tap to reveal carry a purple LUCK badge. Memory game, Drop game, Shoot it, Slice it, Match matrix and Bounce battle carry a blue SKILL badge. Quiz, Calendar and Guess the image carry a coral KNOWLEDGE badge. Below the cards is the Latest games list, with a Search for game field and the columns Name, Date, Type and Status. Its first three rows are Wheels of fortune test gameplays, one Expired and two Draft, each showing the days left in its period, its creation date, and Copy, Edit and Delete buttons.

Each card’s badge shows the type’s group

Luck games

Luck games copy games people know from real life, like spinning a wheel or scratching a card. They’re quick to understand and take little effort, so they suit giving out coupons to many customers.

Game type	What customers do
Wheels of fortune	Spin a wheel to see if they’ve won.
Scratchcard	Scratch fields to reveal whether they’ve won.
Spin the bottle	Spin a bottle in the middle of a wheel, instead of the wheel itself.
Rock paper scissors	Play a round of rock, paper, scissors.
Slot machine	Pull the lever for three matching pictures in a row.
Roll the dice	Shake dice in a cup and roll them onto a table.
Roulette	Guess the number the ball lands on.
Tap to reveal	Tap a chest or another object to see what’s behind it.

A luck game, Wheels of fortune, in Gameplay design and on a phone

Skill games

Skill games take some effort and focus. Customers usually play them for longer than a luck game.

Game type	What customers do
Memory game	Flip cards over and match them in pairs.
Drop game	Move a container to catch some falling items and avoid others.
Shoot it	Move a shooter along the bottom of the screen and shoot falling images for points.
Slice it	Slice objects as they’re thrown up the screen, and avoid the obstacles.
Match matrix	Swap tiles to make matches of three or more. Each match scores points.
Bounce battle	Move a paddle to keep a ball in play. Each bounce scores points and speeds the ball up.

Two views side by side. On the left, the Game Template page in Gameplay design, opened with Create new on the Drop game card: Game Type locked on Drop game, Game name empty, and the first row of templates, [Template] Drop Game football, test with its picture blurred, and Ads - content template, each with a tick box and a preview link. On the right, under the label The same game type, as customers see it, a Drop game on a phone in Lobyco branding. A footballer runs up a green pitch while footballs and yellow cards fall towards him, a +10 shows for a ball he just caught, and the game shows 21 Time left and 7 out of 150 points above an orange Terms & Conditions bar.

A skill game, Drop game, in Gameplay design and on a phone

Knowledge games

Knowledge games let customers show what they know. They work well for questions about your products or your brand.

Game type	What customers do
Quiz	Answer a set of questions.
Calendar	Open a new door each day or each week, with a quiz question behind it.
Guess the image	Look at an image and pick the right answer.

Two views side by side. On the left, the Game Template page in Gameplay design, opened with Create new on the Quiz card: Game Type locked on Quiz, Game name empty, and the first row of templates, Ads - content template, a second template with its picture and name blurred, and Product Quiz template, each with a tick box and a preview link. On the right, under the label The same game type, as customers see it, a coffee quiz on a phone. Under the heading Irresistibly foamy and delicious, a photo card of an espresso asks whether espresso contains more caffeine than any other coffee based drink, with FALSE to swipe left and TRUE to swipe right.

A knowledge game, Quiz, in Gameplay design and on a phone

Preview a game type

To see how a type plays, preview one of its templates. Nothing is created unless you select Save.

In Toolbox → Gameplay design, select the card for the type.
Select Create new.
Under Templates, select preview under any template. It opens in a new browser tab.
Select Cancel when you’re done.

What the type decides, and what it doesn’t

The type decides which templates you can start from. Every new gameplay is a copy of a template, and you only see the templates of the type you picked. The type doesn’t change the settings on the Game Setting page. Every type has the same settings there, such as the location and the game period. Design a game takes you through them. The type doesn’t decide who wins either. Lobyco decides whether each play wins before the customer starts playing, from the settings on the game in its campaign, such as its win rate. In a lottery game, you draw the winners once the game ends. See Create a game. The gameplay can still turn a win into a loss. For example, in a game that isn’t a lottery, a customer picked to win loses if they answer a quiz question wrong. In a lottery game, they lose their entry instead. It never works the other way round, so playing well doesn’t win a prize on its own. A right answer in Quiz or Calendar keeps a win, but it never creates one.

Design a game — design the gameplay in Gameplay design, from its template to the link your game uses.
Create a game — run the game for your customers in a campaign, with its rewards and win rate.

​At a glance

​Luck games

​Skill games

​Knowledge games

​Preview a game type

​What the type decides, and what it doesn’t

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