Linko 5 is the game Games Global used to introduce Linko Studios in February 2026. Its mechanic is original and easy to grasp: landing five coins on any horizontal, vertical or diagonal line awards the sum of their values.
Around that idea there is a permanent wild in the centre of the grid that can transform to boost coin values or respin the empty positions, diamond wilds that link coin chains and open the free spins, mystery boxes holding higher-value coins, and the Linko Wheel, which awards wild rain, multipliers, instant coin collection and jackpots.
I joined the client team in the early stages of the project and worked on it until launch. I took care of the free spins (intro, counter, retrigger and outro), the Linko Wheel and its prizes, the wild and anticipation animations, recovery of interrupted rounds, the sound system and its debugging tools, the portrait and landscape views, and QA bug fixing through to production.