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Why Some Puzzle Games are More Addicting Than Others?

Deconstructor of Fun

Written by Ahmetcan Demirel , the maestro of product management and a podcast host ( Game Dev Diary ) from Germany! With a knack for puzzles, arcades, and simulation games. The puzzle genre is a powerhouse in mobile gaming, generating over $7 billion annually in in-app purchases (IAP). Succeed in the market.

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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. This timeframe allowed us to select the most accurate data using our proprietary deals database. Finally, we concentrated exclusively on the gaming industry.

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Circle Games secures $7.25m in latest funding round

GamesIndustry.biz

"We want to double down on our talent and scale our first title… The first focus area for Circle is the casual puzzle market, and we know players expect better visuals, better user experiences because the competition is really high compared with 10 years ago," CEO Gokturk Balıkcı told GamesBeat.

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Fair Weather Founders, Dead Equity, and the Cliff that Saves

Deconstructor of Fun

She has the data and founders from Play’s network tell their stories. Small Giant Games (founded in 2013) didn't see any success until Empires & Puzzles took off in 2017. Everyone parted on good terms, no resentment or hard feelings, and we still had a clean cap table and could go on" Ben*, founder of a mobile game studio.

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Game-Changing Storytelling: How To Integrate Narrative Elements in Mobile Games

Game Refinery

To put you on the right track, we’ve taken a deep dive into four games that have delivered innovative storytelling in four subgenres: Merge Puzzle from the Casual category, and MMORPG, Action RPG, and 4X Strategy from the Mid-core category. The top 200 merge game titles (source: GameRefinery platform).

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Struggling with UA and player retention in a post-IDFA world? Minigames are the answer

Game Refinery

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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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? Put simply: the mobile game market is currently seeing a lot of hybridization.