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Webinar Recap: How Mobile Game Developers Are Using IP Collaborations to Enhance LiveOps

Game Refinery

Thats particularly true of the midcore side of the market, with almost 60% of the top 200 titles incorporating them as part of their LiveOps strategy, especially those within the shooting, sandbox, and 4X strategy genres. Strangely, the event was its least successful in September, when Transformers One was released in theatres.

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Tips For Writing a Video Game Story That WORKS

The Bottom Feeder

In other words: Is your story so good that people give you free advertising? And word-of-mouth is the best advertising.) Portal was a solid 2 hour puzzle game. A lot of people don't want sandboxes. Meme your characters? Cosplay as your characters? Write fan-fiction about your game? Then it's good. So how do you do that?

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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

When looking at time spent in games, Creative Sandbox games such as Roblox and Minecraft dominate growth in many markets. Overall, in the key Western markets, MMORPGs, Roguelikes, Merge and Puzzle genres largely bucked the recession in terms of revenue. The lockdowns over 2020 and 2021 significantly increased time on a device.