PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2024

The AppMagic Hypercasual games recap for the second quarter of 2024 unveils some interesting information about this specific part of the mobile games market. The hypercasual games market has been on a downwards trajectory for a couple of years now, but there is still potential for success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 24, 2025

Written by Marion Balinoff , an influencer marketing consultant with over a decade of experience, including six years in mobile gaming. She has worked with top gaming companies like Wooga, Supercell, Bytro and Huuuge Games, running performance-driven campaigns with budgets ranging from micro-influencers to MrBeast.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

TileMap editor: Bucket tool - allow deleting and replacing of tiles. TileMap editor: Display fixes and enhancements on the tile palette. TileMap editor: Display current tile coordinates under the pointer. Show object StringName instead of object ID in the debugger. Various buildsystem improvements for Android, Windows, etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the latest episode of the DoF Podcast, Mishka reconnects with Rina Onur Sirinoglu, CEO of Spyke Games, to talk about her exciting new mobile gaming venture, which recently secured a $55 million seed round. Mishka and Rina also take a look into the Turkish gaming industry as a whole. I couldn’t agree more.

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It helps you know the number of users who spend at least a session on your game per day. For instance, unlike a banking app where high monthly usage can be the aim, mobile games often require high daily usage to be successful. It is the number of players who launched your game at least once in a given month.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

OpenGameArt: Another excellent resource for free game assets, OpenGameArt focuses on 2D graphics and audio. Find character sprites, environment tiles, UI elements, sound effects, and music tracks, all contributed by artists and musicians within the game development community.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

I personally have over 15 decks built at any given time to play based on the live-ops and events in the game. Location Tiles As a reminder, winning a game in Marvel Snap requires capturing two out of the three location tiles. This means that the tile will show up 40% more often in games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You decided how much time you'd spend swapping tiles or tending to your flowerbeds. The Narrative Twist The game's previous characters were strictly utilitarian : they introduced players to the world and reacted as players explored the garden. T his kind of approach would be fairly outdated in the modern mobile game market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Written by Jesper Gustavsson , Director of Product at SYBO Games and a games industry veteran with 10 years of experience in building and operating mobile games as a product manager. In 2012, Microfun transitioned into the mobile gaming industry with the release of “Super Model” (an RPG fashion game).

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It is no secret that puzzle games dominate a significant share of the mobile gaming market. While Match-3 remains the dominant force in this competition, we've seen other subgenres like Merge taking the second place, while others, like Tile Match, showed potential but ultimately fell short.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Methodology The report mainly focuses on the performance of the mobile games market in Tier-1 West countries, which include the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, France and Germany. To operate with representative groups, we compared games across top-level subgenres.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

With King and Jam City taking it easy, Ilyon had free reign to grow its signature game , which led to the company getting acquired by Miniclip. Tile Blast games, defined largely by Peak Games, continued smooth sailing. Peak is stable and controls its sub-genre of tile blasting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Most mobile gaming companies bet on incremental innovation as their gateway to success. They make marginal improvements to an existing game, hoping to convince enough players to switch to their game. This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Thus a full breakdown of the newly released game is warranted. Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. The majority of growth in 2020 in Match-3 games came from Tile Blast, Puzzle & Decorate, and classic match-3 games.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In this infinite runner mobile game, players are always given three “missions” which encourage them to play the game in an unusual way (“Have a near miss with a missile” or “Rub your head against the roof for 500 meters”), which is a surprisingly effective way to change the feel of a game that one might play over and over again hundreds of times.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Other than that, the only gameplay layer that is quite unique to Clash Mini is the Special Boards that feature one tile with a special effect (grant healing, charge the special…). This adds an extra factor to take into account on the mind games, but ultimately is not too relevant and it feels repetitive and shallow in a few matches.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. 2020 was a very good year for mobile games. This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate.

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