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Designing maps that complement game mechanics

Game Developer

Good level design must support the actual game mechanics – this affects both level design, and ultimately, player enjoyment. This article shows how we do things with our popular multiplayer mobile shooter game War Robots.

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Capcom and TiMi team on mobile-only Monster Hunter Outlanders

Game Developer

Monster Hunter: Outlanders marks Capcom's first real go at bringing the series' classic gameplay mechanics to phones.

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How to Build Better Mechanics for Rewarded In-Game Ads

Game Refinery

A common way to monetize freemium mobile games is through in-app advertising, where ad placements are sold to generate profit from the entire player base. The most popular format in the US mobile game market is the rewarded video ads, with 74% of mobile players preferring the format over forced ads and banners.

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Authentication for Mobile Games

AWS Games

For mobile games in particular, managing the authentication and authorization of your players can pose some unique challenges. Some of these challenges relate to the use of mobile devices themselves. Offline authentication : Mobile devices may not always have internet connectivity.

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The Mobile Games Moving Away From Gacha

Game Refinery

Mobile games and gacha mechanics have been closely aligned for a significant time. Regardless of the genre, most gamers playing titles on a mobile device will inevitably encounter gacha mechanics in some shape or form, whether that’s a box gacha, sugoroku gacha, timed gacha, or one of many others.

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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. This has led to some wildly unusual combinations.

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Zenless Zone Zero, NTE and the new wave of Chinese games pushing the limits of free-to-play | Opinion

GamesIndustry.biz

Since MiHoYo released Genshin Impact in 2020, an irreversible shift in perception happened across the gaming industry and among many gamers: free-to-play mobile games can actually be good?! I'm being a bit cynical here, as it is undeniable that quality free-to-play mobile games were produced before, but Genshin Impact pushed the envelope.

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