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Turning Passive Mechanics Into Major Retention Drivers
Appointment Features Drive Retention The Sims FreePlay’s latest expansion replaces a passive gardening mechanic with an appointment system where players grow crops to fulfill orders. In the expansion, crops grow faster, and players must return to...
Brawl Stars Changes Its Most Successful Expansion Again
Brawl Stars Changes Its Expansion Format Again Brawl Stars’ Battle for Katana Kingdom follows the structure of the app’s recent major expansions by offering event abilities, new skins, and several new modes. However, this expansion splits its...
Use Event Progressions To Unify Live Ops
Use Event Progressions To Unify Live Ops In Coin Master’s Egg Hunt, players engage with eight connected events to earn tokens that advance them on a quest map. While Egg Hunt runs for five days, most of the connected events only run for a day or...
Why Mini-Steppers Should Have More Progressions
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...
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...
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