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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

Game Refinery

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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How Mobile Game Developers Are Using Anime to Boost Engagement and Revenue Across the Globe

Game Refinery

These abilities allow players to gain an advantage in the race to the finish line by grabbing or punching other competitors. PUBGs mobile crossovers are a great example, letting players unleash Dragon Ball energy beams and fight alongside Evangelions towering mecha. How will this collaboration boost monetization?

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Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

PreMortem.Games

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. Then I write down everything I consider relevant into spreadsheets to compare them all. The indie community is amazingly helpful, but you will have to fight by yourself with every single element in your own game – and that takes time!

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The RPG Report, and the worst things in RPGs

Keith Burgun

Great art, great music, good writing. Anything with “evil race has come to the land” Demons, orcs, whatever, is all bad, because these are all stand in for “people” There is a way you can do it where it comes off as more of a “force of nature”, almost like a huge storm or something, which is an improvement.

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Learn How To Use Data to Build and Grow Hit Games - Part 2

Deconstructor of Fun

Mobile gaming market is close to what an economist would call a perfectly competitive market (except for some categories such card and fighting games - looking at you, Herthstone and Contest of Champions). In my opinion, there are some other elements to consider. That’s how confident they (and we) are in their platform.

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Learn How To Use Data to Build and Grow Hit Games - Part 1

Deconstructor of Fun

For the first version of the game, we decided to have only a single-player version, where the players would fight against the AI. During the writing of this post, we connected with the folks behind Geeklab and they agreed to offer a free month to their service for all of our readers. This is how our game looked like in the beginning.

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Four Tips to Make Your Murder & Loot Game Painfully Addicting!

The Bottom Feeder

Nobody could write Asteroids now. You can still get by if you're writing a shorter single-player game. However, if you're writing an ARPG or looter shooter like Diablo 4 and your business model depends on a dedicated core of 1000 hour addict players? The trick is making sure the fighting part is engaging. That's the loop.

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