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

Game Refinery

Following the high-level trend of hybridization across mobile , more and more casual games have started introducing competitive elements into their live event strategies. With that in mind, are mobile game studios missing out on an important opportunity here to boost engagement? Whoever racks up the highest score wins.

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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

Emerging Best Free Game Development Software Now, let’s dive into the free tools the best Game App Development Companies use to make their 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.

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Based 2023’s data, which casual game genres are likely to perform well in 2024?

PreMortem.Games

Methodology The report mainly focuses on the performance of the mobile games market in Tier-1 West countries, which include the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, France and Germany. To operate with representative groups, we compared games across top-level subgenres. by Peak Games, the publisher of Toon Blast.

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How To Overcame Post-Launch Slump - The Case of Merge Garden

Deconstructor of Fun

This game, which combines Match-3 core with merge progression originally launched globally in the second half of 2020. Just when the market was becoming overheated with the lockdowns and merge mechanics were the all-new rage among the players. You decided how much time you'd spend swapping tiles or tending to your flowerbeds.

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Marvel Snap - The Definitive Deconstruction

Deconstructor of Fun

For a quick and general introduction of the game, it’s a player vs player only CCG game, which limits your cards to only 10 per deck, each game is less than 4 minutes, and it uses a very simple poker-like betting mechanic to keep things interesting. At a high level just know that you have 10 cards to a deck.

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

PreMortem.Games

Time-sensitive touch Next in our selection is Piano Star: Tap Music Tiles with 25.7M Released back in 2022, the game takes its inspiration from the widely popular Piano Tiles series by Umoni Games. The game offers its players a difficulty range of Hard, Expert, and Crazy. Tiles Hop: EDM Rush!,

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2021 Predictions #1 Puzzle Games Becomes the Top Grossing Genre on Mobile

Deconstructor of Fun

Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. 2020 was a very good year for mobile games. This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate.

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