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The Future of Gaming: Engaging Gen Z

Deconstructor of Fun

The best strategies now tap into social connections with features like: Friend suggestions and group invites Competitive challenges Social leaderboards Co-op gameplay and team-based experiences The Multi-Platform Reality Gen Z plays everywhere. Keep LiveOps Strong: Gen Z is demandingconstant updates and fresh content are a must.

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Tower of Fantasy – Is the Game Really a Genshin Impact With a Social Twist?

Game Refinery

Although, in these types of games, whenever there is a new content update, there is also a revenue spike, which can be shown in the case of Tower of Fantasy. Tower of Fantasy also includes a chat feature for socialization, where players can communicate with each other where to find the world bosses and ask for their help to slay them.

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What We Can Learn About LiveOps From the 2024 Mobile Gamedev Award Winners

Game Refinery

We saw games igniting player competition and social interaction through innovative LiveOps events, collaborating with beloved IPs to launch all-new gameplay experiences, weaning narrative threads into their content plans, leveraging seasonal themes to keep things fresh, and more.

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How to Build Better Live Events with the GameRefinery Live Events Tracker

Game Refinery

We launched the GameRefinery Live Events Tracker to provide an all-in-one platform that allows users to monitor their competitors and live events in real-time, get daily updates, and analyze the features and mechanics proving the most popular with players.

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Overwatch’s “Hero Mode” Needed to be a Spinoff

Deconstructor of Fun

A lot of ink has been spilled on the debacle of Overwatch 2 canceling their co-op PvE “Hero Mode”. Putting emotions aside, I think it’s worth re-examining why co-op PvE seemed like a good idea in the first place, and what went wrong in development. I’ve seen both sides of the coin here and can speak from experience.

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Duolingo: How the $15B App uses Gaming Principles to Supercharge DAU Growth

Deconstructor of Fun

It has achieved significant cultural awareness, too: Duolingo has 14M TikTok followers, is a key partner in Netflixs Squid Games 2 marketing and was featured in the $1B global hit movie Barbie. Leaderboards & Leagues are, of course, a proven feature in games - and lead to better engagement/retention in Duolingo, too.

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

What a year it has been, with the number of Godot submissions in game jams rising to new heights, more people working for the Godot Foundation than ever before , and most industry award shows featuring one if not more games made with Godot. The PvP auto-battler with a medieval fantasy theme has quickly gained popularity with content creators!