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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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Unity vs. Unreal Engine: Which is Better for Android Game Development?

Big Games

The mobile gaming industry has exploded recently. Developers are constantly seeking the best tools to create engaging, high-performance games that can run smoothly on a wide range of Android devices. Two of the most popular game enginesUnity and Unreal are the top choices for Android game development.

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Hypercasual games stagnate, but Japanese publisher KAYAC maintains faith

PreMortem.Games

Our goal is to create games that resonate with people worldwide, regardless of age or gender, with non-verbal gameplay. However, the United States stands out as the largest market, accounting for 30-40% of total revenue, so we always start prototype testing there.

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2021 Predictions #8 Three Growth Opportunities Unlocked by IDFA Depreciation

Deconstructor of Fun

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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Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio

Deconstructor of Fun

And seems it provides a solid ground to start hiring the rest of the team, while they start prototyping their ideas. It’s well-documented that the R&D process at Riot involves prototyping with small teams , which in turn could resemble the famous (Super) cell structure. And past experience in entrepreneurship.

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Istanbul Gaming Summit 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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

Deconstructor of Fun

This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. Strategy games also represent nearly a half of all Mid-Core revenues.

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