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Louise Bay

UA Manager at JoyPac
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Top UA Tips for Testing New Hyper-Casual Games 

When you’re developing a hyper-casual game, it’s not enough to just publish it and hope it takes off. You need to do extensive, iterative testing to get an indication of the best possible UA performance as well as in-game metrics.  So where to start? Here are our top tips for maxing out your metrics: Know what you’re testing for and what KPIs you’re looking at Vague testing methods will only get you vague results. The first thing to decide on is what the purpose of your test is. Are you running a marketability test? Exploring a game concept? Or are you testing creatives? Once you’ve decided what question you’re trying to answer, be clear on what KPIs you’re going to measure with. Is it the CPI? IPM? CTR? Retention? You need to know all of these before you start testing....