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

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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

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How to Build a Data Warehouse for Games from Scratch

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Product Update: Ad Revenue Data from Fyber & IronSource now Available in GameAnalytics

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Publishing Hyper-Casual Games in China: What do you need to know first?

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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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We’ve Partnered with Huawei and Added Support for OAID

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The Metrics Behind Successful Tower Defense Games

Get ready to plan your layout, as you’ve got waves upon waves of metrics coming at you. We’ve been taking a gander at Tower Defense games in our latest report, so let’s look at what the perfect set up is when developing yours. If you’d like to jump straight into the stats, download the full...
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#Product Updates

Product Update: How GameAnalytics is Getting Ready for the iOS 14.5 Release

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Left or Right? How Data Warehouses Make it Easy to Make Decisions

Deciding between two different courses of action is perhaps the hardest part of running any business. Recently we wrote about how data warehouses can give you insights, trends and information. Everything you need to make informed decisions. But what sort of decisions do they help with? How do you actually take that insight and make...
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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...
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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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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