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Rewards and Monetization drops: MapleStory: Idle RPG
A game where 40% of revenue comes from $100+ SKUs
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Review of rev and download chart: 3 games and 1 genre to track in Nov
Track'ém in Nov:
▸ Rotate Rings: jumped 191 spots to 8th in downloads, 12.6M. Can it hold its spot in month 2?
▸ Meowdoku: 17.2M installs, +50% MoM, 4th.
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Gaming deals: IN & Africa are the hot investment market last week
▸ $14.7M disclosed equity into game companies
▸ 10 African studios funded by Google Play
▸ Love to see how XSolla uses GamePix
▸ 2 (of 3 deals) of those were IN raises
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#gamedev deals: Only $10M was raised as funds last week, rest (x4) are undisclosed.
▸ Side buys art studio Roboto Entertainment
▸ Roblox brings Audioscape in-house
▸ CONCODE gets dev funding from Outersloth
▸ Mika Games raises $10M
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Steam personal calendar just handed UA lever to your date discipline.
Production commitment and release date confidence is now a distribution input. 477#
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Where AI assets are tolerable:
- Storefront art: capsules, Store icons
- UI: icons, inventory,
- 2D card genres: character portraits, BGs, event cards
- In-game props: graffiti, book covers, minor environment props inside a 3D scene
- Localization
- VO
- Gamejams
Steam Next Fest is not a gamejam.
Steam Next Fest stats:
→ Oct 2025: ~2,960 demos, 507 disclosed AI use, about 17%
→ Jun 2026: 4,382 demos, 1,163 disclosed, 26.5%
→ Oct 2026: 7,000 to 8,200 demos, up to 36% carrying the disclaimer
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Social games are dead on mobile
Social play migrated from the platform layer to the purchase layer 475#
Tl;dr
Social game didn’t shrink, they left the phone. What survived is a dating and handout product wearing games as a skin.
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If you’re an indie dev, don’t look beyond AppLovin at launch.
3 insights from AdMon trends:
▸ iOS leads with 52% ad rev
▸ AppLovin leads iOS and Droid (Android) Ad Rev share
▸ US leads as the market, its share is declining on both platforms
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Gaming deals: last week’s biggest number was borrowed, not raised.
$5.7B in debt vs $146M in equity 473#
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There’s NO Tier2 backup market
▸ Run the per-payer gap for your geo, install vs rev ratio is heavily concentrated towards in Tier1.
▸ Weigh if you acquire a payer from this region, what is that payer actually worth?
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3 trending mechanics to evaluate for your LiveOps.
Pulled from top-grossing games, 470#
▸ Card album collection
▸ Cannon smash minigame
▸ Exploration tracks
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5 Reasons Türkiye’s Game Subsidies Are More Mature
▸ Subsidizing the cost of being wrong (UA refund)
▸ Subsidizing the platform tax
▸ Subsidizing operational cost
▸ Subsidizing growth talent
▸ It’s cash refunds, not just tax credits
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4 things Unity shipped in 6weeks. All one direction. 468#
Priority mantra to follow for indie/AA studio:
Distribution > Design > Development
#gamedev #AI
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8 Gaming Deals From Last Week
→ South Australia put $1M on the table
→ $35M of it went to 1 unreleased game
→ FIRY’s five-year hold on Photon returned 1.1x
→ $36M disclosed into game studios across 3 deals
→ $500K went to a game built
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4 reads from Avg CPI by genre, iOS vs Android
▸ Top 5 by CPI is identical on both stores
▸ Droid had 10.4% of mobile game revenue last year. It now has 39.7%.
▸ Bidders bid to LTV
▸ Hypercasual CPI rates $7.67, that number ends a business
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Mobile game review: WW download and rev charts, Sept
▸ Bus Fever Party!: jumped 141 spots to 4 in downloads
▸ Pokémon GO: the lone grossing riser
▸ 4X cooled: Whiteout -19%, Kingshot -18%, Last War -24%
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Gaming deals from last week.
→ $263M disclosed, all of it adjacent
→ $0 disclosed into any game studio (undisclosed)
→ $220M went to AI trained on gaming clips
→ Jason Jones launches Stone Kite, Grasshopper exits NetEase
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China was on both sides of gaming's deals this week:
▸ Tencent leads Circle Games $25M
▸ Kingnet takes control of Wemade
▸ Lilith backs Feijiu
▸ Scopely buys into China's Bokura
▸ Trophy buys Playrion
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Veeramani and his team should face very severe one.
- His protectors who wanted to hide/loot should be dethroned forever and should serve too.
Huge respect to Amalraj Sir and Honrable Padma Shanmugasundaram Mam.
JUST IN | Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the sensational #POCSO Act case involving Gem group of companies chairman #Veeramani. DGP Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal orders formation of SIT comprising women officers - Additional Commissioner Thenmozhi, Joint Commissioner Disha Mittal, Superintendents of Police Mutharasi and Geethanjali. Decision comes a day after ADGP Arun and IGP Kannan were shifted without posting and put on VR.
-@vijaythehindu reports