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The Trends & Challenges of Hyper- Casual Game Development

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By superimposing digital content onto the player’s view of the real world, AR offers a unique and engaging experience. This trend presents a unique challenge for developers, as it requires them to balance gameplay mechanics and technical capabilities to ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for all players.

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Istanbul Gaming Summit 2023

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Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix. He also said there are opportunities in going cross-platform and direct billing. Cross-platform is becoming more important too, he said.

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What Comes After Battle Royale and Why You Need to Know Vigor

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For example, Escape from Tarkov has gone full-military with its detailed limb injury mechanics, complicated inventory management, and ultra-realistic gunplay. There’s no reliance on overly realistic, gameplay-affecting survival mechanics like limb injuries, hunger, or thirst. Bohemia’s title is more forgiving than Escape from Tarkov.

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Google x Deconstructor of Fun Istanbul Event: Highlights and Videos

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Understanding players and marketability have also become more important, leading to larger companies increasingly building content fortresses – in which they acquire a user and move them between games in their portfolio. But solid examples of this happening were not clear.

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Call of Duty: Online is dead. Long live Call of Duty: Online!

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The only examples of F2P shooters at scale were Korean (Crossfire) and Chinese (Assault Fire/Ni-Zhan), both focused on pay-to-win mechanics. Another MMORPG-related bias was the expectation of continuous content updates, visually different challenges/upgrades and a metagame focused on progression and cosmetic rarity.

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Marvel Snap - The Definitive Deconstruction

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For a quick and general introduction of the game, it’s a player vs player only CCG game, which limits your cards to only 10 per deck, each game is less than 4 minutes, and it uses a very simple poker-like betting mechanic to keep things interesting. However, Marvel Snap has simplified this mechanic to make it even more accessible.

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2021 Predictions #4 Contenders Throwdown for Supercell's Mid-Core Crown

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By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. But please keep in mind that Hearthstone is cross-platform title making likely over 80% of its revenue on PC. Riot’s card battler is very well executed cross-platform game.

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