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Olivier Madiba’s Kiro’o Games is building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem

PreMortem.Games

Kiro’o Games is an ambitious game development company based in Yaounde, Cameroon. Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. This is his story.

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The Play Pendulum • A theory of innovation cycles in interactive entertainment

PreMortem.Games

Joost van Dreunen argues there’s a deeper, cyclical pattern that explains why interactive entertainment has entered a down period. Succinctly, the Play Pendulum theory suggests that the video game industry alternates between two primary types of innovation: content innovation and distribution innovation. Enter the Play Pendulum.

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How Mobile Gaming Could Come to an End

Deconstructor of Fun

Facebook used games for growth and discarded them quickly as it didn’t need them anymore. The platform killed the booming gaming business by handicapping the distribution channels used to grow our games. I believe that mobile games could be facing the same deliberate death-by-a-platform as games Facebook suffered a decade ago.

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3D Content Interoperability with Topology-Free Modeling

Nvidia

In addition, due to the topology creation process, 3D modeling is time consuming and has a high entry barrier for content creation. Changing the resolution of a finished mesh (for a mobile game, for example) requires an even less detailed model to run efficiently, forcing the modeler to recreate it from scratch.

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The Mobile Games Industry In the Year 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

Our suggestion to all the game developers out there is to make the most out of these safe harbors while they still offer that sweet protection from the raging storm. Firstly, pretty much all of their users are engaging with their service through their mobile devices in addition to TV screens. And that’s a lot of eyeballs.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

Just adding a unique theme or idea can make your title stand out from the ocean of games out there. Torchlight Infinite by XD Entertainment. Torchlight Inifinite is an ARPG (action roleplaying game), and the fourth title in the series made by XD Entertainment. Definitely for the more experienced gamer. Plan your attack.

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How to Leverage Trends and Motivations to Build Better Casual and Hyper-Casual Games

Game Refinery

Competition is fierce in the mobile game market, but even more so for developers of casual and hyper-casual games. So, what can mobile game developers do to increase the chances of their games performing well? And how do you know which trends will be a hit with a gaming audience? Meta layers.

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