Creating Successful Mobile Games: What You Need to Know

30 November 2018

Mobile game development can be a huge income earner. Statistics by Admob show that 3 out of 5 smartphone users will download a mobile game within a week after buying their phone. But even with this great potential for success, only a few mobile game developers have been very successful.

To create a profitable mobile game app, you need to develop an engaging and habit-forming game and monetize it effectively. That’s why we are providing these tips to help you get on the right path to success in the gaming industry.

Contents

1 Adaptor Expand a Popular Idea:
2 Keep the Interface Simple:
3 Make it Habit-forming:
4 Tell an Interesting Story:
5 Choose the Most Profitable Platform:
6 Develop a Good Monetization Scheme:

Adaptor Expand a Popular Idea:

Developing a successful game starts with a brilliant idea. Interestingly, great gaming ideas are seldom original. So you can generate ideas for your game by looking at some of the most successful games in your chosen genre.

Take two games that you love to play as a model for your new game. Study every aspect of each game and read reviews to discover what the users love about them. Then you can use their comments and your creativity to develop fresh ideas for your game.

Keep the Interface Simple:

A game with a simple interface (at first glance), has the potential to attract many first-time users. They will be able to start playing the game quickly, a few minutes after downloading it, without going through a lengthy tutorial.

After the simple entry-level stage, your users will be more willing to tackle tough challenges. As the user moves to higher levels, you can add more characters, increase the speed of response and make the game more exciting.

Make it Habit-forming:

Let your game become a habit so your users will keep playing it and recommend it to their friends. One of the best ways to create a habit-forming game is to have short and snappy levels. Short levels will hold your user’s interest especially when there is a lot of content that can be unlocked by payment or by achieving higher scores. You can also make users come back by providing frequent updates and by offering gifts on special occasions or during holidays.

Tell an Interesting Story:

A well-written story or plot will help your players to find a purpose in finishing the game. Your story may have a hero and a villain like most popular games, or it may make the player the hero. Then you should define your hero’s and villain’s strengths and weaknesses as well as the path to the hero’s final victory.

Choose the Most Profitable Platform:

Choosing the best platform or operating system to build your game for is not always an easy task. The most popular platforms for gaming today are Android and iOS and focusing on one or the other is probably the best way to start. Whilst it might be easier to focus on one platform, you’re also limiting the number of potential users who will be able to enjoy your work.

If you don’t want to create a native game for a particular platform, you could decide to build a hybrid model that will be available to users on any platform. A good example of this is Casino Mobile’s offering on iOS, Android, Blackberry, and desktop alternatives – which allows it to cater successfully to a large portion of the market. This comes with its own costs but it could make it easier to update and upgrade the game app. It also allows you to master the use of a smaller set of tools like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS that will run in a container on any platform.

Develop a Good Monetization Scheme:

You should have a plan to monetize your game before the development starts. This will make it easy for you to weave in-game purchases and ads into different parts of the game. To attract as many users as possible, you should have a free download to quickly attract a large number of users. Then you can provide an option for people to pay a subscription fee to remove ads. Bear in mind that you need to filter your ads and choose an appropriate size so they don’t annoy your users.

Creating a successful mobile game may not be a stroll in the park. But you can still achieve success by applying these tips while you work with highly skilled game developers.

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Learn How To Play Card Games Now That Will Be Popular In The Future

Over the last decade, card games have become more popular than ever. Live tournaments, online casinos, and mobile gaming apps have all helped spur this along, with more card games becoming popular with every passing year. Here, we’ll be looking at three card games that are already receiving a lot of attention and will surely become more popular in the future. 1. Baccarat: While poker may be the first strategy card game that pops into any player's head, baccarat requires just as much tactical intelligence and often appears alongside poker games at live and online casinos. A standard game begins with the player betting on either their own hand or the banker’s hand before the cards are dealt. Once this has been done, the dealer will then give two cards each to the player and banker, all of which must be face down. The dealer then slides one card out from the player’s hand, placing it face up before doing the same with the banker’s hand. Two more cards are dealt, and the maths begins. Tens and face cards have no value while an ace is worth just one point and all other numbered cards represent their exact value. For instance, if the player has a nine and a six their total is 15. However, you don’t necessarily want to have a bet on the highest total if you are the player, as it is the number closest to nine that wins. Of course, the best-case scenario is that the hand the player bet on is a ‘natural win’, meaning that the first two cards dealt a total of either eight or nine, but this is rarely the case. More often than not, the dealer will have to decide if the player should receive a third card, which is allowed only when the player’s cards total 0 to 5 and the banker’s hand doesn’t already total eight or nine. The banker may also receive a third card under the following circumstances: The Player’s third card was 9, 10, ace, or a face card, and the Banker’s total is 0-3. Player’s third card 8, and the Banker’s total 0 – 2. Player’s third card 6 or 7, and the Banker’s total 0 – 6. Player’s third card 4 or 5, and the Banker’s total 0 – 5. Player’s third card 2 or 3, and the Banker’s total 0 – 4. Once all the cards have been dealt, it’s time to recalculate and see which hand’s total is closer to nine. If there’s a draw, neither hand wins, and the game either starts again or players may leave the table. Clearly, baccarat isn’t one of those card games that you can just sit back and relax through while the cards are being dealt. You must be vigilant, pay attention to the cards, and, most importantly, you must have a strategy in mind. Fortunately, there are plenty of baccarat strategies you can apply including the one-sided baccarat strategy, the trend switches combat baccarat strategy, and the breaking the doubles strategy. Each of these requires quick-thinking, quick maths, and an ability to accept when you’ve lost a game, so you may want to practice before going for the big money. 2. Rummy: Over the last decade, many card games have become popular at online casinos often receiving numerous different makeovers and versions to ensure there are all sorts of different styles to play. Rummy, on the other hand, seems to have gone down a different techy road and is probably most popular as a mobile game. A simple search on the Google Play store will bring up dozens of rummy games (sometimes known as gin), many of which even enable you to play live with other rummy enthusiasts around the world. Whether you’re playing on your mobile or face-to-face, though, the same rules apply. First of all, the amount of players decides how many cards everyone is dealt: 2 to 4 players: 10 cards each 5 players: 6 cards each 2 or 5+ players: 7 cards each A scorer and dealer must have been designated at the start before the dealer shares the hands out and places the rest of the deck face down in the center. The card at the top of this pile (known as the stock) is turned over and placed beside the larger pile. The game can now begin with the player on the left of the dealer, who must decide whether to pick the upwards facing card up or choose the top card from the stock. Which one they choose depends on whether the upwards card will help them create a run (a consecutive sequence of three or more cards of the same suit) or a set (three or four cards of equal value), known as a meld. If they can make a meld, they may set those cards aside, but if not one card from their hand (never the one they just picked up) must be placed on top of the upwards card (also facing upwards). Each player must do the same in turn, shuffling the stock and starting again until it is depleted completely. The players with the most runs and sets are victorious. 3. Bridge: Finally, we have a bridge – a card game that has been passed down for generations. It’s sophisticated, subtle, and more popular than ever, with ITV reporting in 2015 that over 300,000 people play in Britain on a regular basis. We can probably assume that this number has grown even larger over the last few years, as the bridge has received both the casino and mobile app treatment. This isn’t surprising at all, considering its already long-established popularity and the fundamentally social nature of the game, which has only become more apparent in online and mobile games. So, how is the bridge played? There must be four players divided into teams of two, with players sitting opposite each other forming partnerships are known as North-South and East-West. Bidding is then started, but it’s important to know how the game is played first. A total of 13 cards are then given to each player, starting with the player left of the dealer. Each suite has a different ranking for bidding purposes, with spades being the highest followed by hearts, diamonds, and finally clubs, though this isn’t necessarily important during play. That is unless one suit has been labelled ‘trumps’, which means it beats all other suits. As for the value of cards, numbered cards retain their inherent value while aces are the highest followed by kings, queens, and jacks. The aim is to collect ‘tricks’, a collection of four cards one taken from each player, with 13 tricks up for grabs in a single deal. A player will be designated to play the first card in a trick, known as a lead, which can be any card. However, the three other players must then play cards of the same suit if they can; if not, the obligation is voided. Once four cards have been played, assuming that no trump suit has been named, whichever team played the highest value of the lead suit wins the trick. However, if a trump was declared, then the highest-valued card of that suit wins the trick. Before any player can actually start, bidding will have taken place with players stating the number of tricks they believe they can take during a deal. The dealer is the opener, beginning a sort of auction where players continue raising the number of tricks until three players inevitably say pass and the final bid is labeled the contract. Whoever declared the final bid is known as the ‘declarer’ and must then ask their teammate to be the ‘dummy’, where they place their cards face up for all to see and are no longer allowed to participate. Instead, the final bidder plays their hand as well as their own. If at the end of the game, the declarer and dummy team have the contract amount of more, it is converted into points. If they have not, the defending team receives points. Whether you’ll be playing bridge to get those tricks, downloading rummy on your mobile, or booting up baccarat at an online casino, we’re sure you’ll have loads of fun. After all, that’s why these card games continue to be played by thousands of people around the world and why their popularity continues to grow in the digital era. Read Also: Golden Tips For Responsible Gambling How To Get No Deposit Casino Bonus And How To Use It Intelligently?

The End of an Era: Is It Time to Call the End of the TSM Dynasty?

A Brief History After five years and a record-setting 10 back-to-back appearances in the LCS Final, the team that has for so long defined North America failed to make it out of the Quarter Finals in the Season 8 Spring Split, dropping a best-of-5 series to newly formed team Clutch Gaming 1-3. The team came back fighting in Summer Split, battling their way to a 10-8 record and taking a close 3-2 win over Echo Fox to advance to the Semi-Finals, where they again fell short of the Finals after losing 2-3 to Cloud9. After winning the third-place match and securing a place in the Regional Qualifier, the team hit another first after losing 0-3 in the Grand Final to Cloud9 and missing their first-ever Worlds. The team took the off-season to retool their roster to fare better in the now much more competitive domestic region, replacing Hauntzer and Mithy with Turkish top lanerBrokenBlade and former Echo Fox support Smoothie respectively. That took them to another Grand Final in the Season 9 Spring Split, where they got reverse swept by juggernaut Team Liquid, but they once again fell on their faces in the Summer Split as they fell out once again in the Quarter Finals to Clutch Gaming in a horrifically similar 1-3 loss. Is TSM’s Time Up? With the team failing to make the Grand Finals in three of the last four Splits, and the roster circus that’s followed them around the jungle position, many viewers and analysts have begun to question whether it’s time to stop hyping up TSM. Such claims had begun to stir last year after TSM failed to make it to the Grand Final in Spring, and again when they failed to make Worlds at the end of Summer. Many of these remarks were quickly shoved aside by the community: “TSM had taken a big risk bringing in the star European bot lane duo of Zven and Mithy from G2,” they’d say, “MikeYeung had failed to live up to his Phoenix1 play level. 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These aren’t the strong and tactical roster maneuvers the team has been known for in the past: this is throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks. It’s honestly heartbreaking to see a once-proud organization laid so low like this, and to be honest, I couldn’t tell you who or what in the org needs to exactly change to get them on the right track considering the team is so quiet about why they do what they do. But if TSM ever wants to be the lions of North America they’ve traditionally been, a big shakeup is all but certainly in order. Not just the coach or a player or two, but the whole organization needs a major shakeup to get out of the stupor it now finds itself in. I don’t think they’ll make it in time to run the Gauntlet, it’s just too soon, but there is hope that Regi and the team can do what’s necessary before the start of Season 10 next year. Based on how things have gone for the team in the past, I honestly don’t think it will, but, as someone who wants to see all the teams be competitive in the league, I pray they do. Read Also: How To Improve Your Online Gaming Experience 5 Team Building Activities To Inspire And Enjoy Featured image: realsport101.com

10 of eSports Most Popular Video Games

The most popular of all the video games that people play in eSports are contested in leagues all over the world. These are great places for people to come when they want to make friends and play interesting games. Plus, these games have shifted over the years to make them more interesting. You might be completely new to gaming, but you can get into these games at any time. There are ten here that you need to get to know, and they are all going to give you a new perspective on gaming that you have not seen before. also, you need to start thinking of what it would mean if you were playing these games with friends or actually playing them for money. Millions of users all over the world play these games. The technological development of gaming in the last few years is something that has taken the world by storm. The growth of professional gaming leagues in countries such as India and the Philippines is a testament to the soaring popularity of the games in these developing regions. Most Popular Video Games 1. League Of Legends The eSports UK world is dominated by this game. Actually, this game dominates everything. Anyone who wants to play in this world can go for this game because it is the biggest in the world right now. Plus, you can watch people play these games on TV because they have leagues just for this game. In terms of the sheer number of people who play this game, League Of Legends has been able to carve a separate niche and audience for itself in the past few years. 2. DOTA 2 DOTA 2 is a battle game that a lot of people love because they can get into leagues in many different places to play it. If you are new to this game, all you need to know is that it offers you the best fighting experience you can get. This also means that you can improve your gaming by playing with novices who are just starting like you. 3. Fortnite Ninja plays this game, and there are many other people who play this game in leagues all the time. In addition, this means that you will be able to have more fun because there are so many friends to be made in the game. For more info about Fortnite, you can reach Best Fortnite Settings. 4. Overwatch Overwatch is a great game to play with a really cool story. There are a lot of fun characters to meet, and you can get involved in the lore of this game that is being revealed over time. 5. Call of Duty Call of Duty is something that people will find that they can use to have a good time in something that feels like a SEAL team. There are other games like this, but this game is the one that people play because it has the most action and team options. 6. Hearthstone You can play this game for the story, and you will find that this game can be very fulfilling. 7. Rocket League Rocket League is very popular, and this is another game you can see on TV. 8. Rainbow Six Rainbow Six is like the older cousin of Call of Duty, and it is still a big deal even today. 9. Heroes Of The Storm Heroes of the Storm gives you a story that you cannot forget, and it sucks in all your friends as you play out the story. 10. Starcraft II Playing in another world is a great place for you to play when you love futuristic games, and all these together change the way you play every day. Conclusion The age-old thinking that games are only for children has been countered and rejected. It has also been proven that gaming helps develop intuitive potentialities in a child. Most of these games on the list help children develop better thinking and reaction times. These are great assets to carry forward into the professional world. The problem-solving capabilities along with teamwork are critical to most games on the list. We would love it if you would share with us your favorite game from the list. Please feel free to add value to the article in the comments section below. Read Also: 10 Top Games For PC Gamers How To Play PSP Games On A PC?