Business of Games: Where do your installs come from?

https://businessofgames.icartic.com/p/business-of-games-where-do-your-installs

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Business of Games: Trending game takeaways, Tile Busters

https://businessofgames.icartic.com/p/business-of-games-trending-game-takeaways-a48

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#businessofgames snapshot of Google Play's pre-launch tools against various stages of release

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#gamedev investment round-up on Feb 1st week. A thread

1. Embracer may have sold its Tomb Raider rights to Amazon for a cool $600 million

2. Skybound invests in Mega Cat Studios

3. Keywords acquires 47 Communications... (more)

https://businessofgames.icartic.com/p/business-of-games-shout-out-to-new-2cf

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What doesn't make a web3 experience, making a wrapper around all the trending features like yield farming, DeFi protocol…

an experience/game build as a wrapper will never make it in web3 bear run

Have an experience with a core loop that’s fun for the user to get engaged, instead of finalizing the token design.

Token is not a design, its a tool in the protocol - via a16z

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Business of Games: Trending game takeaways, Frozen City ❄️❄️

- it’s a base-building game with idle/clicker gameplay
- Last 30 days, rev $3,500,122
- Last 30 days, downloads 4,630,300

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Business of Games: Voodoo's BLOCK magic 🪄

Voodoo announced that it’s working on a blockchain ecosystem. A quick peek at what it has done for the hypercasual games and what it can bring on board to web3 games.

https://businessofgames.icartic.com/p/business-of-games-voodoos-block-magic

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UA best practices and tools recommendation for India 🇮🇳

1. Dont rely on banner ads, dont user bidder
2. Focus on Interstitial and reward ads

Your best friends are Admob, Google Ad Manager, & InMobi

A slightly fake creative approach is good 🤦🏾

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2023 prediction, from a work-for-hire studio perspective.

1. Death of FB
2. Year of Sideload
3. NFT and Metaverse kill
4. Hyper-causal game publishers sideload
more details..

https://businessofgames.icartic.com/p/business-of-games-2023-prediction

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#gamedev 🕹️ weekly round-up on investments 💸 dec 4th week 🎅. A thread 🧵

1. Tencent acquires a 20% stake in SHIFT UP

2. Ndreams acquires VR dev partner Near Light

3. Moon Active to acquire Zen Match from Good Job Games

4. Rainmaker Games has raised $4.7M

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