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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024

Logic Simplified

From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. It contains the game’s proposed design like the concept of the game, genre, core game mechanics, gameplay, timeline, illustrations/sketches, story and characters, levels and monetization strategies.

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What We Can Learn About LiveOps From the 2024 Mobile Gamedev Award Winners

Game Refinery

We saw games igniting player competition and social interaction through innovative LiveOps events, collaborating with beloved IPs to launch all-new gameplay experiences, weaning narrative threads into their content plans, leveraging seasonal themes to keep things fresh, and more.

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Hypercasual games stagnate, but Japanese publisher KAYAC maintains faith

PreMortem.Games

Let’s find out how KAYAC approaches development of Hypercasual games in 2024; what their expectations from the market are; which best practices for game development they can point out; and what tips for adapting games for the Western region they have to offer. As such, we intend to pursue both moving forward!”

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How Mobile Game Developers Are Using In-Game Collaboration Events to Boost Player Retention

Game Refinery

Not only are collaboration events a great way to engage players, but they’re also a great way to boost your game’s monetization through the addition of new content, such as event-exclusive cosmetic items and collectibles. Promotional collaboration events popularity across US, China and Japan (source: GameRefinery SaaS platform).

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Implementing a Build Pipeline for Unity Mobile Apps

AWS Games

The use of game engines to generate interactive content is a common choice for people these days. Unity is used for use cases beyond games, and these new use cases may not run on traditional game platforms, so being able to build for a wide variety of platforms is critical. For this reason, a retry mechanism is essential.

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Monster Hunter Now: Has Niantic Finally Found Another Pokémon Go-Sized Hit?

Game Refinery

Follow-up attempts at replicating the success of Pokémon GO by integrating AR mechanics into other IP-based games were met with disappointing figures, resulting in job losses and sudden cancellations. But their latest release, Monster Hunter Now, appears to have finally hit the mark.

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Is Clash Mini good enough for global release?

Deconstructor of Fun

My estimation is that - if it happens at all - it would happen somewhere in 2024 the earliest. The main reasons are (1) that the open positions are for systems & liveops design, and multiple artists; and (2) that the game RPD looks flat, which points out to a lack of content and endgame systems.