Dots sequel aims to re-create the original's massive line-drawing success

Dots is back and ready for you to make more connections, and this time developer PlayDots is introducing some features that might help it connect with more money.

The studio released TwoDots for iOS yesterday. This sequel to Dots: A Game About Connecting brings back the line-drawing puzzle mechanics of the original but with some small changes that may encourage gamers to spend a bit more on the free-to-play app. The original Dots caught on fast and surpassed 3 million downloads after its first month on Apple’s mobile platform. With TwoDots, PlayDots may turn huge download numbers like that into more cash with optimized money-generating techniques. Consumers spent $16 billion on mobile games last year, and that number is going to get bigger this year. TwoDots could grab a significant portion of that.