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What are AAA Games and Mobile Games?

iXie gaming

With the rise of the gaming industry, two distinct categories of games have emerged: AAA games and mobile games. These games offer different gaming experiences, target different audiences, and have unique testing requirements for game QA. Can Mobile Games Be AAA?

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Olivier Madiba’s Kiro’o Games is building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem

PreMortem.Games

Olivier Madiba recalls playing games on warm sunny afternoons at his grandmother’s home with a spark in his eyes. It was during those moments, captivated by the epic boss fights and voice acting in Final Fantasy 7, that Madiba’s deep love for video games was ignited. These are some of his fondest childhood memories.

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Game Studies, volume 21, issue 2 is out

Jesper Juul

Many essays in game studies deploy the concept of liminality. However, Turner and van Gennep developed liminality together with related concepts that suggest a richer account of play than liminality captures on its own. The Gamification of Gambling: A case study of the mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius.

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The 7 Steps to Successfully Greenlight a Game with an IP

Deconstructor of Fun

Prior to Knock Knock, Andrew was Head of Business Operations at TinyCo where he built, launched, and operated games like Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, MARVEL Avengers Academy, and Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. Beyond study and instrumentation, there is instinct.” - Annorax* Creating a new F2P mobile game is riskier than it’s ever been.

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Part 1: How Netflix could become the 'Netflix of Gaming'

Deconstructor of Fun

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. Netflix for sure has all the money and the customers to execute big on their gaming strategy. Though same was said of Amazon…. Why pay $17.99?

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Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio

Deconstructor of Fun

Candace Thomas (Game Designer) , a veteran designer with vast experience in the MMO genre, having worked at World of Warcraft , the canceled Lord of the Rings MMO by Amazon Studios, and more recently at upcoming Riot’s MMO (wait, is this bad news for the LoL MMO!? billion downloads weekly - how healthy is the mobile games market?

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What Web3 Games Should Learn from Designing Fun Game Markets

Deconstructor of Fun

Moreover, different thematics appeal to different people – mobile games will relaunch the same game with a reskin (ex: change the dragons to fairies ), to attempt to appeal to a broader audience. Power-based matchmaking is also a common option in games with vertical progression. The same applies to markets.

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