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How to Build Positive Interactions in Online Chats Discover how to foster meaningful connections in group chats. With insights from Riot Games, we explore the key to reducing toxicity by understanding miscommunication and personality clashes among participants. Learn the importance of curating the right group for a better experience! #OnlineCommunity #ChatPositivity #GamingResearch #RiotGames #ToxicityReduction #CommunicationTips #GroupDynamics #VirtualInteractions #PositiveExperience #CommunityBuilding

Today the GDC Talk for "Brawl Stars : Learnings from the Removal of Loot Boxes" presented by Frank Keienburg and myself on behalf of the exceptional Brawl Stars Team is online in the GDC Vault for those that are interested! Reflecting on what it felt being on the Brawl team over the last 2 years as we went from historical lows in 2023 to historical highs, a few things stick out. During our lowest point metrics wise in 2023, some may assume that we were pressured to monetize the remaining players we had, but it was quite the opposite. We knew we needed to improve engagement and more importantly the game's "time to fun" as we simply didn't entertain players like we use to. So we trashed our plans, and made a hard pivot to focus on adding random rewards back into the game as engagement rewards which we shipped 2 months later, this lead to the start of our recovery to our eventual historical highs. Are you struck by something? I was. Firstly, the Brawl Dev Team culturally makes the ultimate decision on what to do. This has been very empowering. Once we knew we needed to add random rewards back into the game as engagement rewards, we acted on this and shipped an update 2 month later which started our recovery. Secondly, while "time to fun" is hard to measure, it's very easy to feel. Games after all are about entertainment, and for a mobile game like Brawl Stars, continuing to make it easy for players to experience that fun quickly is very important. We lost sight of this over time and needed to refocus on it. Gameplay is a key focus for us each and every update. As a live service game, Brawl can get more complicated over time, and in our case, dragging out the time to fun. We spent a lot of time over the last year looking at the key areas of the game with low engagement and improving this time to fun, and in many ways, simplified the game in the process. Sometimes this meant removing entire features and rebuilding them from scratch. Lastly, how the team is setup to adapt quickly as we see issues has been inspiring to experience. This is a fundamental truth, certainly of live service games. You will always want to adapt quickly. A special shout out to our community team who have been engaged with the player base throughout all the ups and downs. Their feedback and ability to run exciting community events as live ops have been huge for our momentum. The value of a healthy community is invaluable. This were integral to our move to the now IAP Brawl Pass. I hope you enjoy the talk as much as we enjoyed making it. We certainly weren't shy to call ourselves out on mistakes we've made in addition to the successes we've experienced and some of the lessons we've learned. To say we planned for this and saw the recovery of Brawl is naive at best. We certainly did some good along the way, but could not have expected such results. I continue to inspired by how humble and talented the team is throughout all of this. #gdc #supercell #brawlstars

Imagine developing a Niantic AR game for mobile phones based on Vikings, Women and Magic ✨️🎩 🪄 🔮 ...using their latest technologies.... (Build immersive XR, 3D experiences, and casual web games with the public beta of our new visual editor and powerful web gaming engine—now available for free.) https://lnkd.in/e_He2Z25 https://lnkd.in/eV9jXb8q Viking Magic ✨️ ..... Why is seidr seen as a woman's domain in Viking culture? What made Vikings see magic as a feminine thing? https://lnkd.in/euFJWHfz Women and Magic in the Sagas: Seiðr and Spá https://lnkd.in/edGxnrEB In this second part of a series on Norse metaphysics, we're going to look at one of the most important, fascinating, and complicated terms in Norse magic: Seiðr (anglicized seid), a specific magical practice, closely associated with spinning and textile work, sexual taboos, and possibly trance and ritual ecstasy. https://lnkd.in/eKjaPqBY The Legacy of Seidr: History, experiences and the path ahead https://lnkd.in/eki8d_QE From Witch Trials to WitchTok- Long persecuted and marginalized, witches are suddenly center stage in online culture. https://lnkd.in/eC9x6T2z. In 2024, it’s officially cool to be a witch. It only took several centuries. If that’s a sentiment that causes you to raise your eyebrows – or question my sanity – you clearly haven’t been spending enough time online. Today, witchcraft is everywhere on social media, but particularly Instagram and TikTok. https://lnkd.in/e_MKi_PF 🧙♀️🧹

Fluvsies Merge Party, the newest game by TutoTOONS, has been released for two months, and we asked Justinas, Fluvsies Merge Party game designer, to comment on how the game is doing! 🚀 "Our team is very excited about our game's initial reception 🚀 Some of the players were so excited that they recited the names of all Fluvsies in their feedback ❣️ Our priority is now on player retention 💜 With the current setup, we aim to maximize playtime, much like our other games 🎮 It's been challenging to predict how a mixed monetization model is going to impact player behavior, so we’re continuously improving and optimizing. This experience reminds us that each game is unique, and we can't always rely on the same strategies, even if they’re tried and tested 💡" #TutoTOONS #GameDev #Insight #SharingKnowledge #GameStudio #GameDevelopers

Ever wondered how Supercell keeps their players engaged with their events system? I always had fun playing games from Supercell, whether it was strategy making and elixir management in Clash Royale, or random fun matches of brawl stars with el primo. But what really sets supercell apart from other free-to-play games is their efforts in publishing events and the frequency of it. What most developers focus these days is monetization techniques and placements of high tier cosmetics in battle pass, but they are really not of much use if the game is not engaging enough and is not able to retain players. That is why event system of the game Clash Royale works so well. It introduces new challenges, events so regularly that it doesn't let users get away and result in good percentage of retention. I've covered the cadence of these events, types of events, and how the major game KPIs are affected by them in the link down below. Which Supercell game do you like the most? #liveevents #productroadmap #freetoplay

Another month, another Metroidvania Game Jam, this time themed around Nurturing! Out of 43 entries, our entry, Kami: The Great Guardian, placed 5th overall! Please, everyone, go give the game a play as we had a blast making it! https://lnkd.in/gxYawSeb (I hope the link works properly, and if not I will post again with just the link) For the rest of the categories, we ranked 3rd in the Metroidvania category that tested our ability to construct a game within the design principles that constitute one. In Relevance To The Theme Picked, a category which measured how well we integrated the theme into our game in a creative or interesting way, we placed 4th. In the category of Enjoyment, our game ranked 8th. In Sensory, the category that measured how the game appealed to the eyes and ears and the atmosphere it created, we ranked 10th. And in Execution of how our game's concepts were put together, i.e. did it have bugs, was the idea creative and original, was the level design, map, narrative, and worldbuilding well implemented, we ranked 6th! As always, this game jam was a blast to participate in, and this time, I was reminded of a lesson I learned back in college: clarity. Clarity within my documentation as the Narrative Lead. While I had managed to work fine within the month time frame and get all my work done on time, my lack of clarity within the visual descriptions of environments, enemies, and environmental hazards set the team back. I managed to rework my documents fast enough, but the damage was already done for the first week of production. A hard lesson to relearn, but one I needed to as we moved forward, and currently move forward to polish this game and get it ready for a Steam release! #videogames #gamejam

🎉 Heading to #Gamescom next week? So is the AppHarbr crew, and we’re pumped to meet you there! Game studios and publishers in my network—let’s link up! Let’s chat about how disruptive ads are killing player engagement and discover how we’re teaming up with game studios to create play-first, in-game experiences that keep players hooked. #gamedev #appdev #mobilemonetization

What a case study! 😱 Read the recent Gamelight's extensive case study, as Superplay surpassed $500K daily spend on Gamelight! 😎 More details on how we managed to reach this scale while delivering high-quality users here: https://lnkd.in/dvNwFZ4g

We play games, and games elevate the world. International Day of Play 🎮 highlights the crucial role of games in fostering global unity and personal development. Games are a universal language that transcends cultural, national, and socioeconomic barriers, building a sense of community and pride. Games are vital for developing physical, social, cognitive, and emotional skills. They enhance resilience, creativity, and innovative thinking, especially in children. 🕹 Games help people form relationships, cope with trauma, and solve problems, equipping them with the necessary skills to navigate an ever-changing world. The UN enshrines the right to play, recognizing our intrinsic need to engage with games. Specializing in handcrafted localization for narrative games, Riotloc transforms games into experiences that resonate across different cultures. That is our passion. ❤️ That is our mission. And it ensures that players worldwide can enjoy games in their native languages. #gamedev #gameloc #InternationalDayofPlay

The AppHarbr team is gearing up for Barcelona next week as we head to Gamesforum 🎮. We'll be there to share insights on how to supercharge gameplay with engaging ad experiences. On Day 2, catch the Ad Quality Fireside Chat, where Alex will dig into why the industry tends to overlook the player experience and strategies to eliminate disruptive ad experiences. DM if you're heading to Barcelona and you're around to meet up 🇪🇸 #inapp #monetization #gamesforumbarcelona #gamingindustry