Crusher – Fastory | Centre d'aide

Crusher is a Candy Crush-style match-3 mini-game. Players swap pieces to form combinations and score as many points as possible before the timer runs out.

What makes it special: the piece visuals can be AI-generated from your Instagram images, for a game fully in your brand's colors.

What is it for?

Crusher lets you engage your community with a simple, addictive, and visual game. Anyone can understand the rules in a few seconds.

It's an effective format to energize a marketing campaign, a key moment of an event, or an activation on your Fanzone.

Since the pieces feature your own visuals, the game strengthens brand recall while collecting entries.

How does Crusher work?

The principle is simple:

move a piece to swap it with a neighboring piece;

align at least 3 identical pieces to make them disappear;

chain combinations to multiply your points;

score as many points as possible before time runs out.

If you enable special pieces, matching more than 3 pieces creates bonuses that can clear a row, a column, an area, or all pieces of the same color.

The game screens

The player goes through several screens:

An introduction screen that explains the rules with a short animation.

The game screen, with the grid, the score, the stars, and the remaining time.

An end screen, win or lose, depending on whether the score goal was reached.

Score and stars

The score increases with each successful combination. Longer matches and chains earn more points. A wrong move costs a few points.

The player can earn up to 5 stars:

up to 3 stars based on the percentage of the score goal reached;

1 bonus star for finishing without a single mistake;

1 bonus star for reaching the goal quickly.

Customization options

You can adapt Crusher to your campaign:

the game duration;

the score goal to reach;

the difficulty, which adjusts the number of piece types;

special pieces, to make the game more dynamic;

the grid color and the header colors;

the piece visuals, AI-generated from your Instagram images or uploaded manually;

the game sounds.

Crusher can be used as an interactive experience in your campaigns, or added as a Block in your Fanzone.

Best practices

Set a reachable score goal to give players a real chance to win.

Enable special pieces for a more fun game at an event.

Choose high-contrast visuals so each piece type stays easy to tell apart.

Keep the duration short to encourage multiple plays.

Concrete use cases

If you want to keep your Fanzone lively every day

Add Crusher as a Block in your Fanzone and let your fans come back regularly to beat their best score.

If you want to make your brand memorable

Generate the pieces from your Instagram visuals: players interact directly with your content throughout the whole game.

If you want to collect entries

Use Crusher in a campaign with a score goal and reward the best players.

FAQ

What is Fastory's Crusher mini-game?

Crusher is a Candy Crush-style match-3 mini-game. Players swap pieces to align at least 3 identical elements and score points before the timer runs out.

How do you play the Crusher mini-game?

Simply move a piece to swap it with a neighboring piece and form a line of at least 3 identical pieces. Combinations disappear and earn points, and quick chains earn even more.

Are Crusher's visuals really AI-generated?

Yes. The pieces can be automatically generated by AI from your Instagram images. You can also upload your own visuals if you prefer to choose them manually.

How do you earn stars in Crusher?

The player earns up to 3 stars based on the score goal reached, plus one bonus star for playing without mistakes and another for reaching the goal quickly, for a maximum of 5 stars.

Can you add Crusher to a Fanzone?

Yes. Crusher is available as a Block in the Fanzone, in addition to its use as an experience in your campaigns. Your fans can then play it directly from your page.

How do you customize Crusher's difficulty?

You can adjust the duration, the score goal, the difficulty, and whether special pieces are enabled. The difficulty notably changes the number of piece types on the grid.