AWS Games

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Bringing Data-Driven Insights to Fans Providing a transparent, global ranking system for LoL Esports teams has been a long-standing challenge and priority for Riot Games. During the tournament, GPR data was integrated directly into the livestream, with casters and analysts using the rankings to enhance their commentary and storytelling.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Widely regarded as the biggest trendsetter when it comes to entertaining content, the short-form video content platform, TikTok, has become the new home for viral content. year-over-year from 2021 to 2022 (TikTok Internal Data, 2022) – makes it the perfect place to find inspiration for casual and hyper-casual mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 2, 2024

AppLovin is seeing high-IP games use ad-based monetization from the hyper-casual world, while casual titles layer in complex mechanics. Revamping Mechanics to Match User Expectations Mechanics like tile placement have surged in popularity as they blend accessibility with high engagement.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 21, 2023

Companies have since been forced to seek permission from app users before tracking their activity across other apps and websites for advertising purposes, meaning they now lack much of the valuable data previously used to build highly-effective UA campaigns. This keeps the momentum going and encourages further investment in the game.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 21, 2023

Also, if a game mechanic has high retention, but other metrics are not as promising (e.g., This data can be easily tracked using Google Trends. When it comes to other platforms, FreePlay told us that they kept track of Reddit and Imgur, too (where TikTok content is often reposted, providing valuable insights into viral video trends).

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Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2024

Accelerated networking combines CPUs, GPUs, DPUs (data processing units), or SuperNICs into an accelerated computing fabric specifically designed to optimize. Accelerated networking combines CPUs, GPUs, DPUs (data processing units), or SuperNICs into an accelerated computing fabric specifically designed to optimize networking workloads.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The top 200 merge game titles (source: GameRefinery platform). GameRefinery’s motivational data shows Gossip Harbor does things differently than most merge games. Player motivations data: Merge games (Average) vs. Gossip Harbor (source: GameRefinery platform). Source: GameRefinery platform ).

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

With over 190+ million users, Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform. To overcome the complexities of managing traffic peaks on its platform, Dream11 developed its own tool called Scaler. Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company. How do we scale at Dream11 ?

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Creating simple sign-up processes : Filling in forms or providing lots of user data via mobile touchscreens can create friction for new players, resulting in them becoming frustrated and abandoning the process entirely. A solution must support modern encryption mechanisms, both for data at rest and in transit.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A big part of this strategy was the integration into Light & Wonder , a cross-platform games company known for creating physical slot machines, i-gaming products, and innovative game experiences that connect content, hardware, and systems across platforms and channels.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

When a game with a unique style and appearance becomes a hit, it doesn’t take long for new games to emerge, hoping to emulate that success by using the same gameplay mechanics, visual style and features. Stumble Guys Player Motivations (Source: GameRefinery SaaS platform). Tournament options in Stumble Guys.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Roblox is an absolutely massive platform, with over 32 million experiences and 52 million active users. They just make a game with a few mechanics, but without thinking about the social element. Roblox is a social platform. It’s less about the mechanics and more about how the players will be able to interact with one another.

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Game Refinery

MAY 26, 2022

What really differentiates The Ants from the rest, however, is not just the theme but the game’s mechanics, which give it an entirely different feel from the usual 4X we’re used to. General data on The Ants. The Ants’ grossing rank graph has remained steady (data from Jan 21 to Apr 21, 2022. Gameplay loop.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Core Mechanics of an Endless Runner Game Game mechanics make a video game engaging and challenging for players. The core mechanics involved in an Endless Runner Game include - Player Actions The player interacts in an endless runner game by jumping, sliding, or shifting sideways to avoid obstacles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

What had been brewing on PC for years before with games like Counter-Strike, was now dominant cross-platform and reaching the “masses” on console. Games that tweak existing mechanics are not enough to break into this entrenched space. Fast forward 10 years, and the genre was thought locked up -- no one could touch Call of Duty.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

With Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its backend, the Metalhead team accelerate and optimized its development and deployment of “SMB 4,” ultimately launching the game simultaneously on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Steam, with global support for cross-platform play.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Now approaching its 10th anniversary, Norsfell has grown from a small startup developing mobile games into a studio with nearly 40 team members who helped launch the award-winning multi-platform game, “ Tribes of Midgard.” The team collaborated with Epic to ensure a successful launch on all platforms.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Data Protection An important factor to consider when looking for a game development company is data protection. Look for one that cares about your data security and intellectual property. Prototype: The prototype is a raw test that checks the functionality of the game, environments, gameplay, mechanics, user experience, etc.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

I’ve been working in the gaming industry for some 28 years, creating for various platforms in numerous roles. We adopted USD to streamline our content pipelines and have something that performs well with large amounts of data and can be easily extended. Vehkala spoke with NVIDIA about embracing USD into its game development pipeline.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 20, 2020

When you make a board game today, you’re on the same platform as CMON and other very high-profile publishers who can reliably pull more than one million dollars per campaign. Good games have clever themes and mechanics. Good products are made for audiences using hard data to figure out what people like.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Avalon is being built with Didimo’s Popul8 character creation platform and Inworld’s AI-powered character engine. Avalon has found investment backing from the likes of Bitkraft, Delphi Ventures, and Mechanism Capital raising $13 million in a round announced earlier this year.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 18, 2024

Games24x7 is India’s most valuable multi-game platform. Games24x7 have established themselves as a leading platform for skill-based games. It accounts for more than 60% of their daily revenue in their fantasy cricket platform operations. Games24x7 uses push notifications to reach over 80% of their active user base.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Exiting the data center: A League of Legends and VALORANT story: Riot Games details how it moved two of the largest games from on-premises to the cloud without interruption. Scaling a multiplayer game into the millions with Mortal Kombat 1 : Warner Bros.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

I never once took Kickstarter data before making this game and its stagnation on Kickstarter shows. I never used market data to validate this game. Kickstarter is a big, beautiful data set. Use that data! I didn’t use that data because I was pursuing a passion project. I have an online platform.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. In this analysis, data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Focus group testing stands as a critical phase in the development of video games, serving as a valuable tool to gather insights, refine gameplay mechanics, and optimize user experiences. Video games have evolved significantly over the years, branching out onto different platforms such as mobile devices, PC, and Consoles.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Although it is a library designed for video production, USD’s mechanism for supporting large and complex pipelines could be used for in-game production. Unlike previous formats, USD compositions can be used to edit data in a non-destructive manner. Unlike asset data, everything is in small ASCII files. Of course we do.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

Similarities all around Beyond its look and feel, the gameplay mechanics found in Palworld also closely match those from other well-known games. The survival mechanics and in-game tasks draw on Rust. Beyond Pokémon, some of the creature designs are similar to those found in Dragon Quest.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Level design is a part of video game design that focuses specifically on designing game levels (an area or stage a player must complete before moving on to the next one) while keeping in mind the architecture, layout, video game mechanics , and pace to keep the players invested in the game. Define the gameplay mechanics.

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Game Dev Unchained

JANUARY 16, 2025

Even single-player franchises are getting forced into live-service mechanics.” Or are we just making content platforms?” At Hi-Rez, it was all about live-service. Every single AAA studio is trying to copy that model. ” Hes right. Jordan: “Its like, do we even make games anymore?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ll start by defining these two types of innovation: Content innovation periods are characterized by a focus on developing new types of games, expanding game portfolios, and pushing the boundaries of gameplay mechanics and storytelling. This period saw the rise of social gaming, mobile gaming, and digital distribution platforms.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

And… that’s what I did professionally for almost 10 years: released many games on different platforms, working for multiple companies. Using that list, I move to a broad research phase, in which I check lots of sources for gathering data. Once I consider I have enough data, I move on to analysis. Which are its verbs?

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This blog was co-authored by Qamar Ali Shaikh, AVP – Infrastructure & Platform Engineering, Dream11 and Arvind Sharma, Engineering Manager – Developer Platform , Dream11. These similarities suggest an opportunity to build reusable platform components. This is available for different platforms like Android, iOS, and Web.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 29, 2024

It starts by designating certain core platform services as a fundamental infrastructure of the internet-type entities. Then the DMA designates gatekeepers that operate these core platform services. Give developers access to more complete data from the platforms. So this would be something like app store distribution.

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Cocos

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Minor version updates focus on performance, package size, ease of use, and stability, such as WASM modules, support for mini-game platforms, package compression, build process optimization, script optimization, rendering effect optimization, etc. Especially for the mini-game platform, whether it is a new or old pipeline, compared to the 3.8.0

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. relied on data to figure out what they wanted this game to be. The core gameplay follows a ‘build and battle mechanic’.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 27, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie. Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2: You can find the previous predictions here.

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