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9 Areas You Should Focus Your Mobile Game Development in 2024
What exactly should you be focusing on this year? What are the trends that will really impact your development? We’ve dug through the most popular trends and brought together the topics you should keep an eye on in 2024. 1. Learn about AI and Machine Learning With the release of Google’s Gemini, we’re seeing AI continue to explode. It won’t be long before it’s a common tool that we all use day to day. Getting to grips with how it works is going to be essential, particularly in gaming. At the same time, we’re seeing hyper-casual games shift to richer and deeper experiences – becoming hybrid-casual. In fact, the number of hyper-casual games dropped by 18%, while hybrid-casual grew by 13%, according to Sensor Tower. By their nature, hybrid-casual games have a longer development cycle than hyper-casual games. Using AI...
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AI-Driven Creativity: Prototyping Games in the Digital Age
While you can’t (yet) plug in a prompt and have it develop a fully functional mobile game, you can use AI to help you come up with ideas and speed up your process. So here are a few ways you can use AI when developing your prototypes.
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From console to pocket: How to adapt your game for mobile
Adapting your game to mobile is no walk in the park. Yoru controls are different, you have a much smaller screen size, and you're much more limited with the hardware. And yet, Psyonix nailed this perfectly. Here’s what we can learn from them.
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Creating VR Experiences: Challenges and Solutions for Designers
Making a VR game is still no walk in the park. It’s very different to what you may be used to building. So what are the top game design conventions that don’t currently translate well to VR? And what can you do to overcome these? Let’s break it down.
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – A Masterclass in Sequel Design
Tears of the Kingdom adds another tenet to its game: Creative exploration. And that’s why it appeals to absolutely everyone. We look at exactly what we can learn from Tears of the Kingdom and how its design philosophy helps the game appeal to every type of gamer out there.
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Behind Lifeline’s Success: An Interview with 3 Minute Games
Lifeline was one of the first mobile games to use push notifications as a core mechanic for their game, which led them to over a million downloads and seven sequels. But what was the secret sauce that led to such success? We spoke with Mars Jokela – Lifeline’s game designer – and Dave Justus – the writer behind the scenes – to ask them what advice they had for other developers and what it was about Lifeline that worked.
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Kid-Focused Design: The Secret to Engaging 750M Young Gamers
PK XD has over 500 million downloads on Android alone. It gets 30 million views on YouTube every week. And their average session length is 25 minutes a session, with people playing around an hour and a half a day. So what's the secret behind their success? Here's what we know.
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Generative 3D creation with AI prompts
AI is evolving fast. From image generation to artificial assistants, we're seeing more uses for AI hit the market. 3D modeling included. Our friends at Sloyd are launching AI text prompting in their 3D web editor. They've shared all of the details for their latest release.
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Using AI to Supercharge Your Game Art Design
Discover how tweaking AI tool settings can help you generate varied art styles, produce better concepts, and speed up the process from prototype to final design. With AI on your team, creating unique game art has never been easier or faster.
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How Tennis Clash scored a golden set
Tennis Clash was one of the most downloaded mobile games in 78 countries when it launched. And it’s had over 50 million downloads on Google Play alone. We look into some of the key factors of its success.
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Creating concept art for games, with genAI
While it may not excel at everything yet, AI's prowess in concepting, storyboarding, and ideation has captured the industry's attention. Join us as we delve into the realm of GenAI, exploring its ability to create stunning concept art and assets for games.
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Ship fast without regret: lessons from 15 years in mobile gaming
One of the biggest mistakes a studio or developer can make is failing to plan ahead. Teemu Haila, Co-Founder & CPO at Metaplay, talks about how launching a game with a short-term mindset can be detrimental to its long-term success and cause avoidable headaches further down the line.
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How to write perfect dialogue trees for games
One of the key times players get to make a choice is during dialogue. But how exactly do you create and plan all those branching paths?