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How Mobile Game Developers Are Using In-Game Collaboration Events to Boost Player Retention

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As an example, PUBG Mobile’s collaboration with the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion introduced giant Mechs into its battle royale map that would attempt to shoot down players, while Cookie Run Kingdom’s collaboration with the K-pop band BTS saw the action-RPG gacha game adding a rhythm game mode.

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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

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In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market – not just the hybrid-casual genre. In many respects, this change isn’t particularly surprising.

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Artist Cassie Simpson on navigating Life, three University Majors and Work 

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She is currently transitioning into a new role as a social media and community lead at the American-based 3D Art Academy, Art Heroes. I wanted to learn techniques that not everyone knows like coding and animations. ” Animation, writing and marketing are the three majors Simpson decided to take.

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Why Renovation and Construction Elements Are Becoming More Popular in Casual Games

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If you’ve ever seen mobile ads pop up on your social media fees, we’d bet you’ve seen your fair share of adverts that include renovation elements. In the case of both games, the renovation features are implemented as part of the core loop alongside puzzle mechanics: play levels → get currency → renovate in meta.

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The Curious Case of Playable Ads and Traditional Marketing Strategies

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It’s likely you’ve seen these playable ads on social media or mobile news feeds - they often resemble mini-games or animations that users can play around with or view. For example: The puzzle game Royal Match created a simple match-3 playable ad to showcase its core gameplay.

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Untold Stories of ex-Activision Blizzard King’s Founders

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The company has developed two mobile titles— Word Tiles Puzzle: Word Search and Restaurant Tycoon. Crop Circle and Lightforge Games — The Shutdowns Crop Circle was founded in 2022 by a lead programmer of World of Warcraft and was a subsidiary of Prytania Media. While neither became widely popular, they generated around 1.4

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Delores Source Code Released!

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I'm sure everyone is getting tired of playing Animal Crossing, and what better way to exercise your grey-matter than modding your favorite game. I believe a lot in testing and testers and much of that came from my time at Lucasfilm and dealing with hard media. there's more. wait for oohs and ahhs).