PlayAeon.eu: An epic match-3 journey through time

A while back the rest of my family got hooked on some match-3 games, mostly Royal Match. The game is annoyingly addictive, and you might have limited attempts before the game makes you wait for a while – unless you pay, of course. So, I figured, why don’t I just vibe up a new match-3 game without all those dark patterns? How hard could it be? TLDR: Try my new game at PlayAeon.eu! Turns out, it’s both easy and difficult at the same time. My first issue was, what should the theme of the game be? It seemed that all the obvious answers had been done: candies, fruits, fish, gemstones, birds, etc. Then I asked Chad for any non-obvious themes and it listed several like microbes, planets, and clockwork pieces. That’s when I started to see an idea of an arc: why not have several chapters with a theme of their own in each one? The game could be about the history of the Earth and progress through all the phases of it, from its formation through the dinosaurs, and to the space age. The mechanics…