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How to Monetize Your Game With a Backend – Part 2

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Arcade Idle HomaJam: A Winning Theme

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#Product Updates

Product Update: How We’re Prepared for Google’s Identifier Policy Change

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Say Hello to Growth Fullstack : A New ETL Service to Bring Your Data Together

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iOS 14 Opt-in-Rate Is Higher for Mobile Games

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How to Monetize Your Game With a Backend – Part 1

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What is a Data Warehouse and Why do Hit Studios use them?

The other day, I had to venture into the tangled mess of my cable bag. No matter how organized I think I’m being – neatly wrapping cords around their plugs and keeping everything separate – whenever I leave the bag alone for five minutes, it all turns into a Gordian knot by the time I...
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Product Update: Ad Revenue From Aequus Now in GameAnalytics

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Slice It All! How to Reduce Your CPI in Runners

Editor’s note: This story was so great, we pinched it from Voodoo. You can find the original on their site, here. (Don’t worry, they gave the go-ahead to share it.) Slice it All! is the brand new hit game by the Serbia-based studio Tummy Games. The game hit number 1 in the iOS games charts in...
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The Metrics Behind Hyper-Casual Games (Industry Report)

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Arcade Idle: 5 Tips for Testing Creatives

For everyone creating Hypercasual games, prototyping and testing is a crucial part of the process. It allows developers to save time, to avoid over-investing, and to be able to iterate accordingly. In addition to testing the gameplay and mechanics, an important part of the process is to evaluate a game’s marketability. And that’s where creatives...
Idle engagement blog
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How to Keep Players Engaged and Coming Back to Your Idle Game

Idle games don’t involve much in the way of thinking from the player. And they don’t have an end goal – you just continue to play them, earning more in-game currency and upgrading as you go. They’re usually free to play, relying on in-app purchases and currency passes to make money. But how can you...
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Sub-Genre Snapshot: Tower Defense Games

We break down the top KPIs that Tower Defense developers should be aiming for, and reveal a few of the rising superstars that entered the market in 2020.
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The Metrics That Make for a Great Match 3 Game – And How to Reach Them

The match 3 genre has given us some of the most successful, long-running games of all time. With Benchmarks+ we can see what metrics make the best match 3 games successful. We recently updated our Benchmarks+ tool to include 25 sub-genres – one of which is ‘match 3 puzzle’. So now that we can see...
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14 Best Hyper-casual Gameplay Mechanics

As Voodoo has put it, the key to a successful hyper-casual game is making sure it’s short, simple and satisfying. When working towards this, there are a lot of different mechanics you can use and combine for your gameplay, so we thought we’d explore which ones do the best, and why. These mechanics are the...

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