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Casino Report: April 2020
Executive Summary Poker Face - Live Texas Holdem by Comunix Ltd March revenue and downloads for Poker Face - Live Texas Holdem spiked +64% and +390% MoM, respectively. This rapid growth coincided with the implementation of social distancing...
Slots Design Report: April 2020
Executive Summary Expanding Reels Progression In House of Fun's The King of Swing, three types of wild symbols expand within reels or expand the reels themselves. Free spins and a randomly triggered Frenzy Mode fully expand reels. Pet Collection...
Puzzle Report: April 2020
Executive Summary App Teardowns In Hay Day Pop, players build and expand a farm that combines custom design and Sims-like mechanics. Happy Blast was one of the most downloaded puzzle apps in China during the peak of COVID-19 isolation—with 1.6M...
RPG Report: March 2020
Executive Summary Arknights by Yostar Limited In February 2020, Arknights averaged $44,535 in daily revenue (+118% MoM) and 2,635 daily downloads (-6% MoM). Puzzle Mini-Game Event After the release of the Sharp Eyes & Quick Hands and Picking Up...
Casino Report: March 2020
Executive Summary JJ Dou Dizhu by JJWorld (Beijing) Network Technology JJ Dou Dizhu (JJ斗地主-欢乐棋牌休闲合集) is a top-grossing casino app in China. Starting on 1/24/20, revenue was +25% and downloads were +172% MoM, likely driven by COVID-19 isolation...
Quantifying Player Engagement
How does a player come to love a game? By analyzing the behavior of millions of Candy Crush Saga players scientists quantified progression and churn as a competition between relative difficulty and engagement. From 2014 to 2016 scientists studied a...
Manual Session Analysis Offers a More Intimate Understanding of User Experience
Product teams like to assume they either know their users or that they need mounds of data to do so. Oleg Yakubenkov, CEO of product management simulator GoPractice, outlines how analyzing behavior without big data can give product managers real...
Slots Design Report: March 2020
Executive Summary Machine Store and Monsterpedia Cash Frenzy's Power of Dragon has players collect a machine-specific currency to upgrade and unlock dragons. Spins can trigger a mini-stepper to add wilds, multipliers, or substitute symbols. Timed...
This Week in Games: Roblox Raises Funding, Word Games Poised to Expand
On episode 72 of This Week in Games, Sensor Tower speculates that the word game genre will continue to grow, and Roblox raises $150 million with the help of Andreessen Horowitz. The State of Word Games Future modeling using Sensor Tower’s store...
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