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Mid-Core Success Part 2: Retention

Michail Katkoff gives tips on how to overcome the challenge of returning players to your game with a well-though core loop, a balanced game economy and clever use of in-game events.

Michail Katkoff

Two misconceptions about paid user acquisition

Paid user acquisition has nothing to do with the creative vs. wholly data-driven design debate; paid user acquisition occurs outside of freemium and should always be dictated by economic parameters in pursuit of an optimal revenue outcome.

Eric Seufert

Mid-Core Success Part 1: Core Loops

Mid-core games are casual games designed for adult males with a gaming background, who have a steady income but who simply don’t have time to play anymore now that they are older. Michail Katkoff explains how to strike the perfect balance between complexity and simplicity in order to hook mid-core gamers.

Michail Katkoff

How To Detect and Prevent In-App Purchase Hacks

In-App Purchase hacks do not affect your game revenue as much as they affect game analytics coherence. This could lead to you taking incorrect game design and monetization decisions. Let's look at how you can limit fraud and in-app piracy.

Yaniv Nizan

42 Ways to Monetize Your Mobile Game

It seems that forty-two is not only the answer to "life, universe and everything". It is also the answer to your monetization strategy. Read these 42 tips that Yaniv Nizan has to share on making your game profitable.

Yaniv Nizan

From Paid to Free(mium) in Three Steps

In this latest post, Michail Katkoff delves deeper into the realm of freemium and walks you through the process of assessing the profitability of switching an existing game from paid to freemium.

Michail Katkoff

Getting and keeping players in the game store

While most players will definitely check your in-game store out of sheer curiosity, it's a true art to keep them there. An art in which Yaniv Nizan is ready to train you.

Yaniv Nizan

Balance and Flow Maps

Anders Drachen brings Sean Houghton on the GameAnalytics blog to share some of his experiences with taking heatmaps to the next level by investigating balance maps in Transformers: War for Cybertron.

Anders Drachen

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Mid-Core Success Part 2: Retention

Two misconceptions about paid user acquisition

Mid-Core Success Part 1: Core Loops

How To Detect and Prevent In-App Purchase Hacks

42 Ways to Monetize Your Mobile Game

From Paid to Free(mium) in Three Steps

Getting and keeping players in the game store

Balance and Flow Maps