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2021 Predictions #5 Sports Games Race into a Billion Dollar Club

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This analysis is written by Mladen Dulanovic , Game Lead from Nordeus, and Om Tandon , UX Director at UX Reviewer. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Access all of our previous predictions.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

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Cookie Run is has some imporessive traction in the Western markets, which may potentially turn this game into a proper worldwide hit. The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world. What was Cookie Run: Kingdom ’s secret to success?

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Is Clash Mini good enough for global release?

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Most of the changes have been related to progression and side mechanics (new upgrade systems, clans…), with just one being clearly impactful on gameplay (Gizmos). Ultimately, it seems that the strategy has been around completing the game with side mechanics and not touching the core. But have the updates been ambitious enough?

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The 7 Steps to Successfully Greenlight a Game with an IP

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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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2020 Predictions #2: What Happens When the Hypercasual Party Ends?

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Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie and analysed by the author(s). Kudos to their unrivalled data support! Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2:

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2020 Predictions #8: What do the Kardashians and Casino Publishers Have in Common… CA$H!

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This analysis is written by Abhimanyu Kumar with special contributions from UX Reviewer ’s Om Tandon and Brett Nowak , CEO of Liquid & Grit. Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie. Also supported by insights from Lloyd Melnick. Let’s dive in!

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Product Mindset: Why Does Your Team Need It, and Is It Worth Cultivating?

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They limit themselves to mechanical testing and don’t raise a red flag if a feature “doesn’t play right” or breaks the gameplay flow of adjacent features. Every feature in your game should be presented to every single team member on the project, without exception. QA doesn’t try hard enough to replicate real player behavior.

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