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JUNE 3, 2019

The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. Empires and Puzzles regularly takes the top spot in Puzzle RPG category in the West (when Dokkan is having a post event hangover).

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 11, 2023

Another mechanic to get all of the mentioned above that two games out of five use is the Fortune Wheel. Thief Puzzle: to pass a level Another new hit with 27M downloads is Thief Puzzle: to pass a level. In the mid term, Mob Control promotes the Battle Pass to both increase retention (no ads, more rewards) and boost the LTV.

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JUNE 24, 2024

Genre-Specific Winners: Puzzle Games Prevailed: The genre fell by only 6% YoY in downloads and gained 10% in IAP revenue, thanks to new games like Block Blast and Royal Match, and established hits such as Candy Crush and Gardenscapes. Puzzle remained strong by focusing on retaining its current user base through events and live operations.

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MAY 9, 2023

Dream Games has joined that list by bolstering its hold on match-3 puzzles and widening its already mass-market audience through the addition of its newest game, Royal Kingdom , which features one of the smoothest casual PvP designs in the market. King Robert (left) and King Richard (right). Wonder how they will expand their Royal-verse.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 21, 2023

Companies have since been forced to seek permission from app users before tracking their activity across other apps and websites for advertising purposes, meaning they now lack much of the valuable data previously used to build highly-effective UA campaigns. This keeps the momentum going and encourages further investment in the game.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2021

But given the degree to which speculation about IDFA has dominated discussions about mobile games marketing since June, before jumping into the substantive predictions for the year, it makes sense to commence the piece with a set of machine-gun hypotheses around the direct impacts on mobile games advertisers of IDFA deprecation. Not really.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Hypercasual Trend #1 The Rise of Feel-Good Mechanics Ultracasual is the youngest subgenre within Hypercasual and it seems to have peaked in 2020. Starting mid-2019, the trend to make feel-good mechanics a thing of its own was introduced by the success of SayGames’ Perfect Slices. Historical lack of staying power.

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JULY 23, 2020

What percentage of revenue is driven by live operations-related product mechanics? will they tolerate ML-driven product mechanics such as level difficulty optimization, dynamic starter pack design, etc.) Is the game growing mostly organically? Audience Composition How large is the audience and what is the average age of DAU?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And that is having the ad monetization mechanics. This mechanics is comprised of rewarded videos or interstitials or even banners, which we are not using due to their relatively poor performance. Best Fiends is a puzzle game. So in the sense, making the new mechanic familiar with the art of a game they are already playing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

Overall, in the key Western markets, MMORPGs, Roguelikes, Merge and Puzzle genres largely bucked the recession in terms of revenue. At the same time, cross-platform open-world RPG Genshin Impact continues to break new ground, crossing its $3 Billion in IAP Spend in Q2 2022. Until next week. ?

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In the realm of product marketing, timing is crucial, and every decision is a piece of the puzzle. In the past, product marketers crafted creative strategies while advertising networks handled audience targeting and acquisition, armed with a wealth of user data. But with the advent of ATT, everything changed.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Hub worlds are coming In addition to trying to acquire properties in other genres, apps will likely try to appeal to players from other genres, particularly puzzle and casual , with popular features like explorable hub worlds, homes, and other custom design areas.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It helps ensure everyone understands the game’s testing objectives, goals, and mechanics. To succeed in Nintendo testing, you must be prepared for many replays since Nintendo games often have hidden secrets and intricate puzzles. Also, collaboration between QA services and the development team is essential.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the last and, the most important piece of the “scaling” puzzle focusing on the nothing less than the game that is being promoted and the teams that are promoting it. They were also one of the first companies to run puzzle ads at scale, that are now used by pretty much every larger advertiser in the space.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Playtika’s Pirate Kings trails Coin Master and has similar mechanics but uses a Wheel of Fortune instead of a slot machine. Coin Master loop Coin Master disrupts the traditional Slots core loop of Spin + Collect coins by adding mechanics of raiding player villages and building/upgrading villages. Most revenue growth occurred in 2020.

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JUNE 6, 2022

The fact that Battle Passes have been successful on audiences so alien to each other like MOBAs and Match-3 Puzzle fans shows how versatile its design can be. For most players (including payers) the Pass is primarily retention and an engagement mechanism. Some examples are: Faster Progression. LiveOps linked to Pass content.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Basic “clicker” mechanics will likely evolve into many different types of async multiplayer games, RPGs, casual “Quest” puzzle games, strategy titles, and — given the natural social network in the ecosystem — party-game style experiences. Many other companies are putting their chips on the Telegram square.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This is showcased in the downward trending right-side graph, where we use the “average number of games Playtika’s key slots titles are being advertised in” as a proxy for UA spend. Coin Master truly innovated on a core Casino mechanic by making random chance just one block in the core loop, not the only block.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

A cold calculating trader would only care about the outcome, but human beings seem to love watching the outcome unfold - a puzzling topic for economists. Market mechanisms could change, introducing new auction formats, changing fee structures, or adding new asset types and derivatives. The reveal itself can be engrossing.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Over the past year, Hypercasual saw massive diversification in terms of core mechanic design. On looking deeper, it was found that this was driven by two things - 30-35% of the growth was driven by increased IAP integration in various hypercasual mini-genres, most notably Puzzle.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

FX: Visual Alchemy “FX is everywhere in movies, TV, games and advertising—frosty breath, blood splatter, bullet hits, sparks, clouds, ocean extensions and splashes. Their work can include artwork for film, elements for video games, advertisements, graphic design, book cover art, and more.

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JANUARY 10, 2021

Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. Thankfully, your faithful crew at DoF are here to try and help you make sense of it, well, at least the very specific part of it related to puzzle games. Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. It made $5.1

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Clash Quest is Supercell’s most recent attempt at disrupting the puzzle category through titles like Smash Land , Spooky Pop, and Hay Day Pop , each of them trying to achieve success from different angles. Clash Quest 101 In terms of gameplay, Clash Quest can be categorized as a blast-based midcore Puzzle game with some RPG components.

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APRIL 25, 2022

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. As a mobile game, how did Cookie Run: Kingdom accomplish this through its gameplay mechanics? On top of that, the game keeps a guaranteed mechanism to protect the experience of “unlucky” players.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The game's complexity, especially for new players, is a significant challenge, with an overwhelming number of game mechanics introduced rapidly. Plus given the size of Blizzard I’m sure they won’t go lightly when it comes to advertising and getting as many users as possible for launch day.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Casual Games in 2022 In our taxonomy, built together with Sensor Tower, the casual games category is divided into seven genres: Puzzle, Hypercasual, Arcade, Tabletop, Simulation, Lifestyle, and Geolocation. Puzzle Games The King is Back. Outside of Merge, 2021 felt a bit empty with respect to new puzzle games.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Part of Fibonad Group (the largest Spanish digital advertising group offering Branding, Performance and Publishing services), Lab Cave has achieved more than 200 million organic downloads without running any paid acquisitions campaign. the second piece of the puzzle. Source: BoomBit Q1 2019 results summary presentation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 18, 2023

The failure of a new Angry Birds game with a slingshot mechanic must have been a blow to the organization. Rovio’s decline is accelerated due to their acquisition of Ruby Games, whose hypercasual portfolio is becoming rapidly obsolete due to the privacy change effects on in-app advertising.

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APRIL 2, 2022

For example, keep it simple for an older player of a casual puzzle game versus a hardcore gamer who understands managing resources and more complex systems Game economists must be careful to balance monetization techniques without blocking the fun. Each different game audience needs a different economy.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The game's complexity, especially for new players, is a significant challenge, with an overwhelming number of game mechanics introduced rapidly. Plus given the size of Blizzard I’m sure they won’t go lightly when it comes to advertising and getting as many users as possible for launch day.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. Moreover, in the case of sex clubs, the patron himself simultaneously becomes the advertised adventure." L loss or often worse, since cops can exploit the same chain reaction mechanic as the player. So for example, instead of redeeming two men for a +3.0

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