PreMortem.Games

APRIL 21, 2023

In addition to the series of articles about hypercasual games and the social media trends that inspire them, AppMagic talked to AZUR Games and FreePlay, both developer and publisher in the mobile- and hypercasual games market. How do you track mobile market trends? Do you test ad creatives before creating a prototype?

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Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

The mobile gaming industry has exploded recently. The Blueprint system allows for faster prototyping. Performance Optimization for Android Unity Optimized for mobile platforms, it ensures efficient resource management, which is crucial for Android devices with varying hardware capabilities. of the CAGR to reach US$1535B by 2027.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2023

But also looking out for publishing or funding deals for our own original concepts and prototypes.” It’s a fully animated social game for mobile and desktop. “By providing top-quality game development from A to Z. So we are open to new opportunities for co-development or work for hire.

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AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Join the team behind Netflixs Squid Game Unleashed as they lead you through building the backend for a fast-based action mobile game. Learn about hard-won lessons in scalability, deployment, and testing, and how the development team used Amazon GameLift to ship the game quickly.

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Grumpy Gamer

JULY 14, 2014

He should have been using a flat screen, or more likely, just a mobile phone, or maybe those Google smart contact lens. I've been in this creative funk since Scurvy Scallywags Android shipped and I find myself meandering from quick prototype to quick prototype. He would not have been using an Oculus Rift. Don't get me started.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

What Makes a Great Mobile Game? We have first understood the success strategy of a mobile game. So, a mobile game is considered great or successful when it is able to engage the players in the long run and when it makes a profit. Building a Riveting Mobile Game. Make a User-friendly Game. Appealing UX/UI of A Game.

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Mnenad

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This is the story of the mobile game Countryball Potato Mayhem - my first ever published, solo indie game. Let's see how it all started as a whacky prototype and if it became a great success or an epic failure.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. launched in April 2023 and quickly grew to become the world’s #1 casual mobile game, surpassing $1B in revenue within six months. the #1 casual game launch of 2023 Room 2024, West Hall Scopely’s Monopoly Go!

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

With their short cycles and simple gameplay, crafting a hyper-casual title means you can learn important skills across game design and monetisation, which you’ll need for success in the mobile games industry. This is a nice round-up of the best tools to use for mobile game development. Prototyping, testing and analytics.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Prototype: The prototype is a raw test that checks the functionality of the game, environments, gameplay, mechanics, user experience, etc. Real-time 3D Game Rendering Unreal engine 3D modeling is great for scene prototyping. GDD is updated regularly. This decides whether the game is worth pursuing or not. 05 RISINGMAX INC.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 31, 2024

In the years that followed the team evolved into a game development studio, initially making games for Flash, HTLML5 and mobile, but now expanded to console development as well. After creating some prototypes, we finally found it. It started as an outsource studio that focused primarily on illustration.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 9, 2023

Brothers-in-Law Eric Reynolds and Paul Harvey were building a successful business in mobile escape rooms when Covid hit. Mobile Escape had to pivot. Step 2: Prototype. They had two large cargo trailers, containing custom designed escape rooms, which they towed to events across Alberta, Canada. We are escape room builders first.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It’s the IDEA that makes games successful: The whole presence of the game revolves around that idea that makes the foundation of a mobile game development process. Artists and designers work hand-in-hand to make the mobile game visually pleasing. Dive in to explore the madness that goes into creating games that play beautifully.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 28, 2020

Many of the improvements made for the Web editor's early prototype have been merged in the master branch and backported to the 3.2 Along with these changes, I've been working to bring virtual keyboard support for the HTML5 export on mobile browsers. Howdy Godotters! But this deserves a chapter of its own. Virtual Keyboards support.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 1, 2018

But besides a few mobile games to waste some time, I didn't really play anything else. I am working on fun/relaxing prototypes that are helping to solidify various ideas in my head, but I doubt any of them will ever be finished. I did play Golf Story for many many hours until rage quitting (more on that in a future post).

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Transforming creative Mobile gaming advertisers build a high volume of new ads and new iterations, feeding these into marketing platforms seeking increased ROAS or reduced cost of acquisition. Investing only in ads that reach and appeal to the same narrow audiences but are undifferentiated in mobile gaming.

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Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 31, 2017

But besides a few mobile games to waste some time, I didn’t really play anything else. I am working on fun/relaxing prototypes that are helping to solidify various ideas in my head, but I doubt any of them will ever be finished. I did play Golf Story for many many hours until rage quitting (more on that in a future post).

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Real Programming

MAY 11, 2023

Imagine, car companies can do preliminary tests to measure how a new vehicle concept will perform even before building a prototype! For example, Java is relied on for mobile developments, especially Android. It’s also used for mobile computing and server-side back-end development projects.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I left gamedev entirely for five years, because I was burned out from working on yet another F2P mobile casino game or whatever soulless product would feed my family.” This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. This includes a more technical identification of needs, what would I have to implement in code?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

The implementation within the mobile renderer was merged into master while support for the clustered rendering is functional but has a number of loose ends to tie up and can currently be evaluated through this draft PR. Further Mobile renderer improvements in Godot 4. Godot 4 OpenVR prototype plugin.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It also brings a richer Android gaming experience to be streamed to a diverse set of mobile devices anywhere. Unlocking enhanced Android game streaming for mobile devices EC2 G5g instances enable game developers to support and optimize games for high-quality streaming on a wide range of mobile devices.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

In the years that followed the team evolved into a game development studio, initially making games for Flash, HTLML5 and mobile, but now expanded to console development as well. After creating some prototypes, we finally found it. It started as an outsource studio that focused primarily on illustration.

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

Making a Mobile Game in Unity When thinking about game development, most people associate it with a time- and effort-consuming process that requires lots of resources and dozens of specialists to be involved (if we are talking about serious projects, of course). Is Unity Good for Mobile Games? What features do Android video games have?

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Mobile games are currently at the peak of their popularity. Game development companies catch the wave and try to please picky gamers with compelling mobile games. Unreal Engine aims for top-notch mobile game development. The primary programming language for mobile game development in UE is C++. Development.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

As commentary, I wrote: “Yes, Tencent already owns the biggest MOBA franchises on PC (League of Legends) and mobile (Honor of Kings). Yes, Tencent/Riot are still planning on launching [LoL: Wild Rift] on both mobile and console. As a bonus, mobile battle royale history will also be covered.)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 29, 2020

After this necessary preface, let’s get to the news: a Godot Editor prototype running in browsers is being presented at this address. Note: As of this writing, this prototype requires a recent Chromium-based browser or Firefox Nightly. The prototype branch (still based on 3.2). Known limitations. References.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

When I have an idea I consider viable, ideally I go straight to prototyping and develop the game from there. It started as my second practice project, a very simple OutRun clone for mobile phones, and now it’s available on consoles with an actual publisher behind and tens of thousands of copies sold.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre. Since then, the team has grown steadily to 40 people and opened offices in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile. Subscribe here!

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Game Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In a global study, more than 50% of mobile gamers who downloaded a new game, had heard about it at least one week earlier 2. Retain a loyal audience There are thousands of mobile games out there and marketing efforts across the board are often very similar resulting in a monotonous advertising landscape. 4 Greyser, Werner.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

And that resulted in the first prototype of Dreadhalls. For example, the Oculus Quest is technically a mobile device, and so has limited power. And even more so in VR, considering how immersive these games are compared to mobile, console and PC. Oculus was also running a game jam at the time, which I entered.

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Game Daily

MAY 23, 2023

The plan is to release a freemium mobile version, alongside a more sophisticated desktop version. If you don’t feel comfortable with brash, arrogant men, then you might struggle to get on well with one of the game’s prototype NPCs, Dante, an extrovert gym instructor. Every conversation is different.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It’s well-known that our analysis of Call of Duty Mobile was printed on the wall of the studio to motivate the team to beat our early predictions. Everything looks tiny when compared with one of the biggest mobile games in history. Brawl Stars looks and plays like a mobile MOBA. What would be my thesis to rally the team?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

With the help of a graphic designer, the team built their first prototype in just three months. Nouns Hunt won Best Mobile Game at the Ark Pitch, organized by Africacomicade in October 2023. It was simple yet powerful, and it stuck. From that moment, Ikpeme was determined to bring the game to life.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

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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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

The iCandy group also owns mobile studios Appxplore and Joyseed Gametribe as well as art and animation production house Lemon Sky, Html5 publisher Storms (which handles web distribution for games like Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride) and Hashcode, which specializes in blockchain law and practice.

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