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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

relied on data to figure out what they wanted this game to be. Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. But not only is it the first to make it to mobile, it’s also the first one to be free to play.

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world. By embracing and encouraging gamers’ motivation to collect and to cultivate, the card battling genre has become a proven formula for mobile companies and studios to maximize their revenue.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Royal Kingdom: Will it Usurp the Throne or Just be a Royal Relative?

Deconstructor of Fun

They launched a new game from a new studio entering the most competitive genre on mobile in the midst of Apple’s privacy apocalypse and has generated a billion dollars in revenue in two years. And while still too early to truly compare, the soft launch RPD data for Royal Kingdom is promising. Back to the original question: what’s next?

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