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Shooting for Success: Navigating the Ultra Competitive Shooter Genre

Deconstructor of Fun

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. Players often return to established titles after trying these new games, reflecting the powerful gravitational pull of long-established live services that are firing new content on all cylinders.

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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: Co-operative challenges in the open-world. Tower of Fantasy: co-op PvE game mode Dimensional Trial. How is the genre shift shown in the game?

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

Game Refinery

You’ve got hundreds of potential competitors to keep an eye on, thousands of live events to track, and constantly changing trends in the mobile market affecting gameplay mechanics, monetization and user acquisition. Or maybe you want to introduce new gameplay mechanics, such as guilds and minigames, but don’t know where to start?

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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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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Can Boost Engagement In The Casual Puzzle Genre With Competitive 1v1 Events

Game Refinery

If executed correctly, introducing new mechanics in this way can be an easy win, enabling developers to test out player preferences, broaden motivational appeal, boost user acquisition, and enhance player engagement – all without drastically altering the core gameplay. Whoever emerges victorious wins a random assortment of boosters.

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

Using it to check on Godot game development streamers resulted in this funny compilation both the content creators and their viewers expressed happiness that the communities they had built were being recognized by us. Backpack Battles Backpack Battles decided to make inventory management the main game mechanic.

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

Deconstructor of Fun

When apps dont have a strong Meta and use Streaks, it is a much weaker mechanic. Friend Quests is a social co-op where you complete quests together before a given deadline. The Timed Chests mechanic is, of course, well-developed in free-to-play games. The combination of Streak + Strong Meta makes this a winner.

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