“I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify, and never miss an angle.” – Walt Disney, on his profit formula
Each month, we bring you the angle: insights and analysis from the most successful games. It is your job to dream…and diversify your product portfolio.
Key takeaways:
- Add a few non-traditional retention features to your roadmap. Cradle of Empires continued to experiment with Drag & Drop and Augmented Reality to drive retention and installs.
- Utilize non-dev teams to form valuable partnerships. King, in a partnership with Snap, released a Bubble Witch Saga 3 lens within Snapchat.
- Add unlimited content systems to keep top players entertained. Toy Blast added a Legends Arena to engage players who beat all the game levels.
- For buildable games, consider implementing Matchington Mansion’s Find an Item mechanic…inspired by the successful app, Houzz. This mechanic allows players to enter a friend’s mansion, select certain items, then purchase these items for their own mansion. In a few months, this app went from new release to 32nd grossing in the U.S. Puzzle category for iPhone.
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Brett Nowak
Editor-in-Chief
NEW INNOVATIONS
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- Matchington Mansion – Firecraft Studios
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