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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Are Driving Player Engagement With Race Events

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This trend is now spinning out into race events – where players compete to see who can reach a designated objective first – resulting in a variety of new race event types emerging. These race events are mostly encountered in casual titles, although they work well for any games that function on level-based progression mechanics.

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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Can Boost Engagement In The Casual Puzzle Genre With Competitive 1v1 Events

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This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features. Only 15% of casual puzzle games in the US top grossing 200 have implemented it, despite it proving reasonably effective at boosting performance in several level-based puzzle games.

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Chrome Valley Customs - Can a Male Audience and a Puzzle Game Be a Match?

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And if the game you’re working on is a match-3 puzzle, there is a widely accepted assumption that your target audience primarily consists of women aged between 25 and 45. A very casual summary of the casual puzzle player demographics. Puzzle RPG is the first thing that comes to mind for puzzle games that target a male audience.

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List of most popular video game genres in 2023

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Players typically interact with the environment and other characters in order to solve puzzles containing clues to advance in the gameplay. This video game genre includes sub-genres like racing, combat, team and sports-based fighting game. Racing Games In racing games, the players take part in a racing competition.

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Even older hypercasual games break into the Top 10 in Q1 2023

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Top 10 Games By Downloads The top 10 downloaded games of Q1 2023 shows a couple of old-timers that don’t want to give up their positions: Going Balls , Bridge Race , Car Games 3D: Car Racing , Tall Man Run and Race Master 3D – Car Racing. You can read about these games in more detail here.

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2020 Predictions #1: Prepare to Crown the New King of Puzzle Games

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Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year.

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Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for the Games Industry

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While you can complete the challenges and puzzles in Escape Academy on your own, why not bring in your special someone for split-screen or online co-op adventure. Escape Academy’s puzzles, like real-life escape rooms, are much more enjoyable to solve with someone else there to help.

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