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2021 Predictions #3 Top Mobile RPGs Will Go Cross Platform

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Breaking into the top of the genre requires often massive development investments, an unrivaled content pipeline, and superb live operations - and often an appealing IP. A smaller studio can still build a very healthy and sustainable business with a very smart approach to content development. Small Giant did it with Puzzle and Empires.

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Istanbul Gaming Summit 2023

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Running through the market by genre, Kress noted that King has done quite well, but other genres had suffered badly, with strategy, RPG, match puzzle, and casino games all down double digits. Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix.

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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. Each different game audience needs a different economy. But solid examples of this happening were not clear.

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

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This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. Riot’s card battler is very well executed cross-platform game.

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Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio

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This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art. IMHO, this makes it a different situation from the Second Dinner core team (of Marvel Snap fame), who were already used to working together at delivering top-level content and was easier for them to become operative.

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