iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2024

Low Frame Per Second Frame rate can significantly impact your game’s usability, especially for mobile games. If your game has a lower frame per second (FPS) rate, it can hinder its performance. Through user experience testing, you can assess the game’s FPS, ensuring it delivers a seamless gaming experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Guest post by Kenneth Landen , Director of Product at Hit Factor Executive Summary In the ever-evolving landscape of mobile gaming, Supercell's Brawl Stars has undergone a remarkable resurgence, transforming challenges into triumphs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 22, 2020

For example, NetEase developed Knives Out with a japanese local developer, Garena Free Fire have optimized their game for lower tier devices and have years of experience growing games in south east asia. In 2020 we should see more publishers join the fray, with EA launching Apex Legends for Mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

QQ Speed was followed up by an MMORPG (The Legend of Dragon) in 2011 and an FPS (Assault Fire) in 2012. The studio then switched to developing content for mobile and created a pair of exclusive titles for China’s WeChat social platform in 2013. billion in 2018, making it the highest-earning mobile game of 2018.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

This seems very low frequency for a mobile game, particularly a new one that should be trying to maintain player engagement with new content. The game has had a significant upgrade when it comes to visuals (especially in the last update), both during the match and in all of the menus. OK, so that’s when it comes to the West.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

While these are not directly gaming-related news, both Meta and FTX were significant players in the gaming ecosystem. Meta’s venture into the metaverse coincided with Apple’s privacy changes and resulted in the loss of the platform as the number one ad channel for mobile games.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Second Dinner – an independent game studio founded in 2018, the studio wanted to quickly launch and scale MARVEL SNAP, the mobile game of the year in 2022, while focusing their small engineering team on improving the game experience. Learn more about how Scenario built their Gen AI solution with Amazon ECS.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The brief and high-intensity game loop makes it well attuned to mobile gaming tempo, and it’s one of the reasons why the game is so damn engaging. This has shown to be viable in mass-adoption genres like MOBA, Battle Royale, or FPS, but isn’t that clear in a niche genre like CCG where CPIs are higher.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In order to achieve that goal, the game had to overcome two major challenges: it had to be free-to-play and it had to appeal to the Chinese audience. Given the lack of copyright enforcement, all western games were pirated, making premium games a losing proposition.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. 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. FPS/3PS grew by 30% and became half a billion-dollar sub-genre in 2021. Well played, Lilith….

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Just try to picture who is going to play the game. A mainstream audience, e.g.: an RPG, FPS or strategy game. A niche audience, e.g.: an adventure game, turn-based strategy, etc. Indie gamers, e.g.: People looking for cool, smaller games to play, no matter the type. so, you just make it and publish it.

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