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Hexa Sort Innovative Community-Building Tactics

Apple's App Store has an interesting feature that many companies overlook—engaging users even as they try to uninstall an app or rearrange their home screen! 📲❌ Lion Studios has cleverly tapped into this feature with their game Hexa Sort to build a stronger community around their product. 🎮🌟 Not only do they encourage players to follow their Instagram and Facebook pages for the latest news, updates, and exciting contests 📱🎉, but they also use the uninstall moment as a unique opportunity to engage users. When someone tries to remove Hexa Sort, Lion Studios prompts them to check out their social media pages. This thoughtful approach shows how much they value every player and are committed to maintaining an engaged community. 🧡By making the most out of every interaction, even when players are leaving, Lion Studios sets a brilliant example for […]

Cover Letter Template

Willem's Week of GameDev Resources: Day 4! Today I'm sharing a cover letter template! Struggling to write the perfect cover letter? We got you! ➡ Get it hereI'm at Burning Man this week and completely out of contact! To continue to spread the love, I have scheduled a single, highly valuable Game Development or Careers resource to be posted every day on my behalf.

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Match Factory Grew From $1M to $17M in 9 Months

Here is what you need to know: 🕹 Game Details:• Genre: Match-3D• Monthly Downloads: 2.2M (+400%)• Market Share: 49%• Launch Date: Nov 01, 2023• Audience: 90% Female, 10% Male🤑 Key Success Factors:• Strong LiveOps: Constant tournaments and activities keep players engaged—similar to Royal Match.• Balanced Difficulty: Easy at the start, but challenges escalate, keeping players hooked.• Top-Notch Quality: Stunning object physics, effects, and a user-friendly interface.💢 Main Competitors:• Triple Match 3D• Happy Match Cafe• Tile Match 3D

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Impulse – Brain Training Scaled to $6 M A Month

Impulse - Brain Training scaled to $6 Mil. a month 🤑 overall revenue with around 3 Mil. downloads a month. It's the current downloads & revenue leader in the health & wellness category. Why are we talking about it? Because in the end this a collection of hypercasual games 🕹 posing as an app to improve your brain 🧠. What a difference a change of expectations makes 😁.The impulse goes a long way to make sure everything looks like a health improvement app rather than the typical hypercasual game. Every day you complete a set of 3 games as part of your "training program". These are categorized into different cognitive areas such as Memory, Mental Math ➗, Problem Solving, and Attention (30 different ones). After you have done your daily training you can still play different games, but only 6+1 […]

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Overcomplicating Game Development?

People overcomplicate game development.Listen, if you are a new studio:Avoid:- Making a game on a niche genre- Monetization first strategy- Disregarding user acquisition and marketing- Rushing the whole processInstead:- Start spending more time on research- Rely on data for your design process- Prioritize communication between departments- Don’t skip a phase (yes, especially QA)- Understand it takes time to ship a good gameFocus on these for your early titles.Build from there.PS: Time-Money-Number of games varies depending on which platform you are making a game.

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Level up Your LinkedIn Feed!

If you're in the gaming industry, here's how to level up your LinkedIn feed:💼 𝗝𝗼𝗯𝘀• Amir Satvat• Ömer Yakabagi• Alexander Rehm🎮 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻• Jakub Remiar• Michal Tomcany• Sergei Zenkin📈 𝗨𝗔 (𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻)• Matej 🦩 Lancaric• Claire Rozain• Myoungwon K.💰 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻• Michael Kopelovich• Felix Braberg• Oxana Fomina🎬 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻• Anton Slashcev• Ahmetcan Demirel• Sergei Vasiuk🧠 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀• Gökhan Üzmez• Andrei Zubov• Ryan K. Rigney🎙️ 𝗙𝘂𝗻 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀• Ali Farha• Harry Phokou• Adrien Bacchi ⚡🐦⚡💸 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁• Ilia Eremeev• Robin Guo• Robert Wynne📊 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 / 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀• Paul Levchuk• Carly Taylor, M.Sc.• Yasin Hatiboğlu

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Most Popular Engagement Mechanics in Mobile Games 2024

Based on an analysis of 4,000 updates, here are the most popular mechanics influencing player engagement: 1. ⏳ Time-limited Bonuses (51%) • Description: The player receives a certain advantage during the event.• Examples: Happy Hours (Short-term), Album/Collection Rewards (Long-term).2. 💎 Treasure Hunt Minigame (16%)• Description: A minigame where players dig tiles in search of treasures. Players earn resources in core gameplay to play treasure hunts.3. 📑 Tasks Rewards (12%)• Description: The player completes tasks and receives rewards.• Examples: Daily Quests, Stage Tasks, Win Streaks.4. 🎲 Board Minigame (10%)• Description: A minigame where players roll the dice and move along the board to win rewards.• The player earns dice in core gameplay or other mechanics.5. 🤝 Co-op Events (5%)• Description: The player cooperates with a friend to complete event tasks.• Examples: Partners, Team Tournament, Group Rewards, Clans.6. 🎮 Other Mechanics (6%)• […]

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Conversion Window for GoogleAds UAC Campaigns

Set the right Conversion Window for your GoogleAds UAC campaigns:👇 Are you leveraging the right attribution window for your In App Purchases? While the default 30-day post-click window works for many, shortening it might offer you some benefits:🔄 Faster feedback loop📈 Reduced fluctuations in ROAS🎯 Improved attribution accuracyA/B test a shorter window to see how it performs for you. As always - keep testing and iterating! Shorter Window Identifying Duplicate-Import-Create

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My 11 Personal ChatGPT Use Cases You Can Copy

As with every innovation, the AI adoption cycle follows the classic path. After the initial excitement that came with tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, we entered the Trough of Disillusionment. People have formed the opinion that AI is stupid and just another fad after not getting the magic they expected. Technology Adoption Curve courtesy We are still in the early days of AI adoption, and many things are far from perfect. On the other hand, when I look around the office, AI already helps us on many fronts and brings substantial value to the business. Today, I want to share a couple of practical examples of how I personally use ChatGPT, which has pretty much become synonymous with AI, at least when looking at Google Trends. Source: Google Trends Use Cases 1. Improving clarity/shortening text 2. Turning a slide […]

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Quality of Internet in Different Countries

As internet quality improves, concerns about the size of mobile games or apps are becoming less of an issue. However, it's still wise to consider app size during development, particularly when targeting markets with relatively slow mobile and fixed broadband speeds.Fixed broadband and mobile internet speeds vary significantly across countries. In my opinion, it's useful to analyze this data in conjunction with a country's urbanization level. It seems that the lower a country's urbanization, the higher the likelihood that actual internet speeds will deviate from the average (especially in large countries). Here I looked at the data provided by The Speedtest Global Index by Ookla (speedtest.net/global-index).Generally, these countries can be divided into a few groups, including:- countries with very fast mobile and fixed broadband connections and very high urbanization, e.g., UAE, Qatar, South Korea, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Netherlands (most of […]

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