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What We Can Learn About LiveOps From the 2024 Mobile Gamedev Award Winners

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If you’re struggling with new ways to build on your existing LiveOps strategy, our award winners (which include the likes of Scopely’s Monopoly GO!, s Partner Events Building a sense of community is one of the best ways to retain players and drive engagement. The power of social and competitive events One of Monopoly GO!’s

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2020 Predictions #10: Playbook to reach the Top of Sports Games

Deconstructor of Fun

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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How Mobile Games Can Buck the Recession

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In this wide ranging interview, Ethan and Sarah go deep on Sarah's experience developing games, how you go about building team and company culture, the importance of building a people first game studio and how Muus Collective is going to bring Web3 gaming to fashion gamers. for hack’n’slash Web3 game Swords of Blood ?

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Why Rovio is Such a Juicy Catch

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Playtika noted that Rovio’s IP, namely the Angry Birds franchise, plus the scale of its user base would combine well with its monetization and live ops expertise. Its flagship game remains Angry Birds 2, thanks to a successful rebirth in 2016 ( see Deconstructor of Fun’s breakdown here ) and live ops ever since.

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Stumble Guys vs. Eggy Party: Which Fall Guys Clone Is the King of Mobile?

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Players race, jump and dash through three rounds of obstacle courses (maps). Similar to Fall Guys, there’s a lot of variation in the map types, which range from races to the finish line and team-based games to survival modes as sections of the map disappear. Heavy focus on social elements.

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Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

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So do they compete or co-exist peacefully? In other words, you can build a game using only blueprints because they are valid pieces of code. Incredibuild makes Unreal Engine even better by speeding up its code builds and shader compilations. Unity is more often selected by beginners as it’s easier to learn and utilize.

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