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Tile Busters: Leaving The Reddest Ocean To Find A Blue Spot

Deconstructor of Fun

It is still live, but is most likely in auto pilot without any feature updates being done anymore. We talked about the emerging Tile Match subgenre in a previous article and also deconstructed its first success story with Zen Match in another. Thus, Tile Busters was born. And pivot that they did.

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Even older hypercasual games break into the Top 10 in Q1 2023

PreMortem.Games

This quarter’s top 10 features some newcomers that have been around for a while, with one even as long as 2016. Not only does it allow removing all the ads, but it also unlocks additional game features. Magic Tiles 3 Another new entry in the top 10 is Magic Tiles 3 with 24M installs. Top 5 Newcomers 1.

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Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

Resource streaming and data compression Today’s video games feature extremely detailed interactive environments, requiring the management of enormous assets. The bulk of a game’s content package is made up of resources that naturally target the GPU: textures, materials, and geometry data.

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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. Simply input parameters like genre, target audience, and desired features, and Ludo AI will suggest potential game ideas. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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Full UI Upscaling, Part 1: History and Theory

Grid Sage Games

This will be fun since I do love me some interface work, as evidenced by the massive number of optional QoL features I’ve introduced over the years, but despite pouring many hours into accessibility and streamlined gameplay before, this particular feature took the longest to get to. It had to wait. Good stuff, though.)

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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Can Boost Engagement In The Casual Puzzle Genre With Competitive 1v1 Events

Game Refinery

This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features. These events have been featured in some other casual games from different genres, complimenting the core gameplay and expanding the event rotation.

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Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

The game features different modes and progressively more challenging levels. Thus, when every pixel of the old games seems to be explored up and down, DLC (downloadable content) might become a good option to sugarcoat things. Time-sensitive touch Next in our selection is Piano Star: Tap Music Tiles with 25.7M

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