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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

Game Refinery

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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

Game Refinery

If you’re looking for ways to improve player retention for your mobile game, hosting a collaboration event with a well-known franchise as part of your LiveOps might be the answer you’re looking for. The best in-game collaboration events are often mutually beneficial. Simulation RPG Vikingard collaborates with TV show, Vikings.

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Olivier Madiba’s Kiro’o Games is building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem

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Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. It led him to realise that Kiro’o Games was not just about entertainment anymore. This is his story.

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Game Art Studio: The Future of Game Development?

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What is a Game Art Studio? Game art studios are organizations specializing in producing digital interactive media. Still, they all provide a similar service: they produce graphics and animation for games, web applications, and other digital content. What do Game Art Studios do? Casual Mobile Art.

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Will Dislyte become Lilith’s third billion Dollar hit?

Deconstructor of Fun

A Combination of East and West Dislyte ’s character design mixes styles of Japanese anime and American cartoons, showcasing sophisticated line art (typical in anime) and exaggerated facial expressions (typical in Amerimaga). Anime styled character. On social media, Dislyte has hosted a series of fan activities (e.g.

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Roguelike Elements in Mobile Games in China

Game Refinery

This kind of unwarranted use of the term in-game descriptions and media articles has been rife lately – it seems that pretty much any kind of random element in gameplay is described as “roguelike” nowadays. The beautiful ASCII graphics of the original Rogue game. So what is Rogue, “roguelike” and “roguelite”?

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

Cookie Run is has some imporessive traction in the Western markets, which may potentially turn this game into a proper worldwide hit. The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world. In the next few chapters, we’ll visit these topics one by one.

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