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2021 Predictions #6 Casino Games on Mobile Post Lockdowns and IDFA Depreciation

Deconstructor of Fun

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Post-COVID investment flows in Social and mobile gaming emerged as one of the best performing sectors during coronavirus, and the ensuing influx of investment will likely impact companies large and small.

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

Game Refinery

Most notably, digital trading-card games (TCG) have become more prolific after Marvel Snap , and TCG mechanics can now be found in the action-RPG Genshin Impact and the arcade-racer QQ Speed. Genshin Impact’s turn-based TCG minigame, Genius Invocation. This has led to some wildly unusual combinations.

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Starting a New Studio? Dream Team is All You Need!

Deconstructor of Fun

This post is written by Sophie Vo who’s building a kick-ass game team at Voodoo Berlin. In my professional journey, I have led multiple teams all over the world - remote teams in South America, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe at Gameloft, international teams in Berlin at Wooga and Nordic cultural teams in Finland at Rovio.

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Supercell's Everdale: a Genre Definer or a Pretty-Looking Social Appointment System?

Deconstructor of Fun

Full disclosure: both of the authors are decade-long fans of Supercell and their games. Although this approach may raise some eyebrows , it also takes some of the outside pressure off of the team as they can test with the real audience before critics like us deconstruct their newest title. The Villagers.

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2021 Predictions #7 The Next Big Shooter is.

Deconstructor of Fun

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). To keep players coming back each season, each event -- there needs to be gameplay impacting content for players to enjoy. All revenue numbers show net revenues. How to Find Blue Spots in the Red Ocean?

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‘Progressive’ AI dialog tools are a Trojan horse

Game Daily

Most of the ledes I read were obliging enough to parrot Ubisoft’s assurances that the tool is a time-saver, designed specifically to help its workers make more creatively productive output, and not in any way to, say, diminish the cost, size and power of videogame narrative teams. It’s f **g worth it.”

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How Dream11 built a multi-tenant user authentication service on Amazon EKS

AWS Games

This blog was co-authored by Qamar Ali Shaikh, AVP – Infrastructure & Platform Engineering, Dream11 and Arvind Sharma, Engineering Manager – Developer Platform , Dream11. Scalability : Multi-tenant systems can efficiently scale to accommodate new tenants without impacting the existing tenants. Perform authorization a.

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