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Maximizing Acquisition and Retention Through Mobile Game Analytics

iXie gaming

Mobile game developers face the daunting task of acquiring and retaining players in today’s fast-paced mobile gaming world. Well, there has been a significant increase in competition, providing players with more mobile gaming options than ever. But what is immersion? Let’s find out.

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Maximizing Acquisition and Retention Through Mobile Game Analytics

iXie gaming

Mobile game developers face the daunting task of acquiring and retaining players in today’s fast-paced mobile gaming world. Well, there has been a significant increase in competition, providing players with more mobile gaming options than ever. But what is immersion? Let’s find out.

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Hideo Kojima: Influential and Innovative Video Game Director and Writer

Game Designing

Kojima always had a knack for creating and worked on film and writing projects before deciding to enter the video game industry in the mid-1980s after securing a job at game developer Konami. Despite the bold new direction, the game was generally well-received by critics and gamers. Early Career.

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Korean indie dev Funnylocks “We made Unstoppable for a global audience”

PreMortem.Games

More and more South-Korean indie game developers take aim at the PC and console market. Set in a New York office building in the 1990’s, the game plays out as a action-filled mini series, including cutscenes that unravel the plot. “To Yet, because of such experiments, there are victims.”

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Secrets in Videogames

Keith Burgun

Before I get started, I should make it clear which context it is that I’m talking about: single player, somewhat narrative driven videogames, like RPGs or adventure games. This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. The same is true for secrets in games.

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Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

Radiator Blog

If Microsoft had given them another 6-12 months to truly polish everything, then it maybe would've been a more solid OK game. Anyway I didn't mind the incompleteness so much because I was playing less for fun, and more "for work", as a first person game developer. But not really.

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The three most important qualities in an RPG

Keith Burgun

Also, worth listening to my conversation with Pete Seicienski on his “Adventure Gamesconcept, which is very much related to this Sense of Wonder thing ). This newness and ambition was a big part of why, as a player playing the game back then, it was so good at inspiring a sense of wonder.

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