Why Mini-Steppers Should Have Progressions In DoubleDown’s Smash the Piggy, players spin on a mini-stepper to upgrade and break open piggy banks above the reels. During spins, landing coin symbols adds currency to the bank and can upgrade its...
Liquid and Grit
Category: Liquid and Grit
Seasonal Collections Are a Major Trend for Legacy Casual Apps
Seasonal Collections Are a Major Trend In Candy Crush Saga’s Pins, players progress in several base game features and events to earn pins that help them complete 15 seasonal collection sets. This strong integration across the app’s live ops creates...
How Hypercasual Mechanics Helped Strategy Overtake RPG
How Strategy Overtook RPG as Core’s Top Genre In 2024, revenue among the top five strategy apps grew an average of almost 400% YoY, helping strategy overtake RPG as the top genre in the core market. Last War: Survival, the top strategy app, has...
How To Make Team Mechanics Optional
How To Make Team Mechanics Optional Coin Master’s Better Together event boosted revenue by 18.7% WoW by introducing collaborative mechanics to a proven multi-stage mission format. In this event, players complete missions to earn individual rewards...
Change Up the Pace of Bonuses
Change Up the Pace of Bonuses Cash Frenzy’s Mega Hungry Super Plants randomly activates timed rounds that give players 90 seconds to trigger a pick’em bonus or a Fruit Ninja-inspired mini-game. The two bonuses maintain the fast pace of the timed...
Letting Players Vote Through Engagement
Letting Players Vote Through Engagement Subway Surfers’ Team Takedown offers two special levels that are each associated with a new hero. Each level has a global reward meter that players fill by collecting currency during that level. Completing...
Top Girl Brings a Relationship Sim Twist to 4X
Top Girl's 4X Twist Pays Off A3GAMES’ Top Girl layers a girl group theme over 4X strategy mechanics by having players manage and upgrade a roster of pop stars while “performing concerts” to conquer bases. The app also offers several hypercasual...
The Secrets Behind a Successful Economy Rebalance
The Secrets to a Successful Economy Rebalance For this report, we interviewed Elia Catsman, director of economy at Huuuge Games, about an economy rebalance and battle pass update that increased Huuuge Casino’s revenue by 19.2% and ARPDAU by 26.6%...
Let Enemies Fight Back
The Next Evolution in Core-Inspired Machines In House of Fun’s Rock ‘N’ Troll, players land symbols during base game spins to deplete a boss’ health meter. As players spin, the boss randomly drops hazards that block symbols from landing in certain...
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