My experience from watching indie developers is that they get on the match-3 treadmill with aspirations of getting off one day and making the games they really want to make. It rarely happens however.
Sure but that's not me, I *know* it, you don't - that's all. I've made 4 (one I was contracted to do). On my site there are 4 other demo games (action-based) + my framework AOTMG demo = 5. This figure should go up soon :-) ...Amon: Might release a framework that when I'm 100% sure I want to move on (mind you mine is pretty convoluted though); I have a couple of offers to make yes *more* match-3s that I'm carefully considering. Yeah ,you are right that people like just picking them up and playing them, that's the beauty of casual games. They don't have to be mega in-depth, you just wanna have a quick (or long blast) and get on with it and it's not gonna tax you. I'm sorta put off playing Professor Fizzwizzle when I tired or drunk as it's so hard, whereas I can play solitaire or those BFG I spy games easily.