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

Game Refinery

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. Mechanically, the mode is relatively similar to Blizzard’s Hearthstone.

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How to Choose Your Board Game’s Theme

Brand Game Development

Games, at their core, might just be a series of mechanics and rules, but themes keep us from feeling like we’re playing out the logical conclusion of mathematical functions. Internal narrative includes theme, story, art, components, and even box design. The inner narrative should reinforce the game’s mechanics and rules.

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Hypercasual games market keeps shrinking, still 3.38 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

a remarkable +100% QoQ; read a full case study on Supercent’s games); Car Race 3D: Car Racing (+22% QoQ); Race Master 3D – Car Racing (+4% QoQ); Going Balls (+0.1% QoQ); Bridge Race (–4% QoQ); Magic Tiles 3 (–12% QoQ); and Build A Queen (–20% QoQ). Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.

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How Mobile Game Developers Are Using Anime to Boost Engagement and Revenue Across the Globe

Game Refinery

These abilities allow players to gain an advantage in the race to the finish line by grabbing or punching other competitors. Once acquired, players could use these characters in battles but also interact with them through messages and other in-game social mechanics. There are even some anime games that focus on sports, like Haikyu!!

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

Deconstructor of Fun

Despite being the smallest category by revenue share on mobile, 2020 was a very good year for Sports & Racing as it breached the billion-dollar mark , with combined revenue of $1.2B Sports saw YoY growth of +29% ($880M) , while Racing registered +23% YoY ($331M). The sports category is divided into two genres: Sports and Racing.

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Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

PreMortem.Games

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. Since I was a child, I always found myself surrounded by art, because most of my family were artists (ballet dancers, painters, musicians). Which art and music will be needed? For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting.

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Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

Rivals are supposed to win the slot-cars-like race set in a variety of worlds. To recreate the feeling of slot car racing the camera is set above the track, but using perspective view caused problems with visibility. All of the moving obstacles have implemented different mechanics, that make player behave in a certain way.

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