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7 Ways to Drastically Improve Your LiveOps: Learning from Clockmaker

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Events with different mechanics sometimes complement each other, but at other times they divert players' attention, resulting in reduced activity and monetization. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics. They just liked the mechanics and continued playing until the event had ended. Try different combos, too.

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Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

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Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. Using that list, I move to a broad research phase, in which I check lots of sources for gathering data. Once I consider I have enough data, I move on to analysis. For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting.

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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

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In terms of revenue, the genres that took the most damage were: #1 Racing (revenue -28%, downloads +8%) The genre was down early a third down due to a decline across all titles. And unlike Racing, Shooter games also generally saw a decline in downloads as well. while the net revenues declined by 11% to $38.2B. Until next week. ?

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The New 4X Strategy Hit, The Ants, Stands Out With Its Unique Theme and Heavy Emphasis on Social Elements

Game Refinery

What really differentiates The Ants from the rest, however, is not just the theme but the game’s mechanics, which give it an entirely different feel from the usual 4X we’re used to. General data on The Ants. The Ants’ grossing rank graph has remained steady (data from Jan 21 to Apr 21, 2022.

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AFK Arena - Hail to the New King of RPGs

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data from the best of the best - Sensor Tower. A push that is very likely to continue… data from the one and only - GameRefinery. Core Battle: Fighting on Auto-Pilot. Idle (PvE) — the Appointment Mechanic This is the automated (idle) portion of the game. During the past year Lilith has been on a roll!

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How Call of Duty Mobile left $100M on the Table

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First week after global launch: - Call of Duty Mobile (October 1-7, 2019): 70M downloads - PUBG MOBILE (March 18-24, 2018): 26M downloads - Fortnite (iOS only, March 15-21, 2018): 7M downloads *Worldwide data excludes China android. Tencent is known to put several of its studios into a race against each other.

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2020 Predictions #1: Prepare to Crown the New King of Puzzle Games

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We pulled the data of top 1000 games from last three years from the one and only App Annie and aligned the data with the categories, genres and sub-genres. ❤️ App Annie for unrivalled data support. King lost third of downloads but woke up towards the end of the year to fight back for downloads.

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