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2025 Mobile Games Marketing Predictions

Deconstructor of Fun

. >> see our gaming market predictions As we enter 2025, the digital advertising and mobile gaming industries are transforming remarkably. As always, there are winners and losers, and within mobile gaming, certain genres stand out as clear frontrunners. However, for those of us in mobile gaming, this evolution is no surprise.

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Untold Stories of ex-Activision Blizzard King’s Founders

Deconstructor of Fun

In the second edition of The Alumni Effect, we’re focusing on another industry powerhouse: Activision Blizzard, which also includes the mobile gaming giant King. Out of the 28 companies that raised funding: — 17 making PC&сonsole games, of which six are also developing for mobile platforms. — million downloads collectively.

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Old World Designer Notes #3: One Unit per Tile

Designer Notes

The big change that always gets mentioned when going from Civ 4 to Civ 5 is one-unit-per-tile (1UPT), which is interesting as 1UPT is purely a mechanical – as opposed to thematic – change. Generally speaking, opinions were divided over (although largely in favor of) the success of one-unit-per-tile.

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

PreMortem.Games

The AppMagic Hypercasual games recap for the second quarter of 2024 unveils some interesting information about this specific part of the mobile games market. 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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D20 RPG – Size, Space and Reach

The Liquid Fire

Different creatures can be different sizes, and accordingly may occupy different numbers of tiles, or be able to reach different tiles (such as for attacking). At the top of the class I added a "tileSize" const that is set to 5 and represents the number of "feet" a tile on the game board spans.

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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. Sketch a rough concept, set some parameters, and Dimensions will generate 3D models, textures, and animations. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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Full UI Upscaling, Part 1: History and Theory

Grid Sage Games

To take an extreme example, there are obviously different considerations when developing for mobile vs desktop, and the results of the different decisions made to optimize a design for the target platform is also why ports between various platforms don’t always come out the same, whether technically or in terms of feel.

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