Carlos Pereira

VICTORY OF HYBRIDCASUAL! Is Homa's IPO coming? Konvoy's latest report has brought incredible news to the Hyper & Hybridcasual game development ecosystem.🥳 🎉 🎊 Homa is a potential IPO candidate! 🎊 🎉 🥳Founded in 2018, its big hit will come in the second half of 2019."Sky Roller" 🛼 brought new mechanics to the fiercely Runner market.The player didn't move a character horizontally across the screen but opened and closed the legs of a roller skater.According to AppMagic, "Sky" reached a peak of 19MM downloads per month in December 2019 (Hyper's Golden Age). 🪙👀It’s one of Homa's biggest hits with around 200MM downloads so far.Next, the French publisher 🇫🇷 released new big hits such as "Merge Master" 🦖 (2021 - 130MM) and "Attack Hole" 🕳️ (2022 - 100MM).And pioneered in the Idle Arcades with “Harvest It!” 🧑‍🌾 and “Craft Island” 🪵🪓.According […]

NEW GAME TRENDING SUPERMARKET SIMULATOR The game market is highly dynamic.Despite the hardware classification, we constantly see big hits on PC 🖥️ and console 🎮 influencing mobile games 📱, and vice versa.In addition to the influence of non-endemic factors, such as those coming from social media.This is the case with the recent trend for supermarket simulators.Developed by Nokta Games and released as early access on February 20, “Supermarket Simulator” jumped into the top games on Steam (Valve corporation) in the first week of March, reaching quickly 10k reviews (today there are 27k)."Supermarket Simulator" is just what the name says.A complete supermarket management simulator, covering everything from ordinary actions such as filling shelves with products to pricing.However, what was just another global short-term trend has become a mega regional trend. 🇧🇷👀There's a reason for that.At the end of March, one of […]

TRACKING RELEASES & TRANSFERS# 2 HALF OF APRIL, 2024 Hi Hyper and Hybrid Fanatics! 🤩📲Today I bring you another edition of our long-awaited…💫 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 & 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬 💫I bring you the main launches and transfers from the Hybrid & Hypercasual market in the second fortnight of April.I highlight 4️⃣ titles.✅ “Now Genuine Encounters” by Voodoo“Real Connections, No Gimmicks”This is the first line in the AppStore description of the new app from Hypercasual giant Voodoo. 😲Those who follow my posts know this is at least the third non-gaming app from a big French publisher. 🇫🇷Let me repeat my analysis.This portfolio diversification towards non-gaming apps is probably related to the growing IAP revenue in this market, which has even recently overtaken mobile games. 💰👈For me, Voodoo's strategy is to use its Hypercasual UA machine for non-gaming apps.As well as applying their game […]