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#Product Updates

Product Update: Data Services, Mobile App, and iOS Consent Status

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Making Better Game Decisions with Feedback Testing

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Top UA Tips for Testing New Hyper-Casual Games 

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How Noor Games reached a D1 Retention of 62% with the Game Lumbercraft

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#Blog

5 Simple Ways to use Level Design to Improve Player Experience

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Top Tips for Choosing Hyper-Casual Publishing Partners in China

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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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#Blog

Making a Hyper-Casual Game? Here’s 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid

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#Blog

How to Crack the Match 3 Code?- Part 4: Project Makeover

Editors note: Originally published on February 2, 2021, by Om Tandon. You can find the original article here. There is a new Match 3 on the block and it’s taking on casual games genre with both guns blazing! You (the reader) shouldn’t act surprised, though. The previous 3 articles in this series have been consistently...
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#Blog

New Report by Adjust and Facebook Reveals Opportunities for Developers

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The Voodoo Art Manual: How to Make Effective Game Art in Hyper-casual

Editors note: This article was originally published by Voodoo. You can read the original on their blog here.  The brand new Voodoo Art Manual is now available for all partner studios on our Publishing Platform. It contains a concrete and practical guide on how to create effective and engaging game art in hyper-casual. We know that...
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#Blog

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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#Reports

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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#Blog

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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#Blog

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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