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How to Build Better Live Events with the GameRefinery Live Events Tracker

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You’ve got hundreds of potential competitors to keep an eye on, thousands of live events to track, and constantly changing trends in the mobile market affecting gameplay mechanics, monetization and user acquisition. Or maybe you want to introduce new gameplay mechanics, such as guilds and minigames, but don’t know where to start?

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Soft Landing to Conversion – Introducing Onboarding Best Practices PART 3

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The onboarding period is the delicate phase where the player’s relationship to the monetization mechanics of the game is often decided – for better or worse. Let’s find out what kind of interesting monetization features aimed specifically at new players can be found in top mobile games from East to West!

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2021 Predictions #8 Three Growth Opportunities Unlocked by IDFA Depreciation

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Eric is the author of the book Freemium Economics and the founder of Mobile Dev Memo , the ultimate growth blog and podcast. It is tempting for mobile games marketing teams to think of 2021 as being dominated by Apple’s impending new privacy policy for iOS, App Tracking Transparency (ATT). Access all of our previous predictions.

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How Coin Master Disrupted Social Casino and Pocketed $100M

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This one is written by Om Tandon (Director of User Experience, DIGIT Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). Coin Master’s Game Systems. With 5 free spins being granted every 50 minutes, their availability is limited and hence they are an energy mechanic of sorts.

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How Playrix' Township Became a Billion Dollar Game

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Playrix - True Behemoth of Casual Mobile Games Founded in 2004, Playrix entered the industry by making premium Match-3 and Hidden Object games. As a result of growth of app stores in early 2010s they switched their focus and decided to jump onto the free to play mobile games in 2011. Playrix’ active portfolio.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

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Cookie Run is has some imporessive traction in the Western markets, which may potentially turn this game into a proper worldwide hit. The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world. Special effect from clicking on and dragging the Hot Cocoa Cookie.

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2021 Predictions #4 Contenders Throwdown for Supercell's Mid-Core Crown

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By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. After all, these games have a fun combat core brutalized by ever increasing timers which just simply don’t work in the modern mobile market. Helsinki Here’s a caveat though.

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