June’s Journey in-game shop: design flaws revealed

While preparing for the upcoming LiveOps deconstruct of June’s Journey, we encountered a rather peculiar flaw in the game’s in-game shop design. Intrigued by our discovery, we felt compelled to share it with you in this quick blog post. About the game June’s Journey – a remarkable hidden object game developed by Wooga and released…

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Welcome to our new article on LiveOps in Hidden Object Games (HOGs), a part of the ‘How to set up LiveOps’ series, where we deconstruct genre-defining games. This piece is devoted to the #1 top-grossing game in the HOG category – June’s Journey by Wooga. We will deconstruct its LiveOps strategy, which keeps players engaged throughout the years…

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POSTED ON JULY 7, 2023 BY JULIA ILJUK Check out this video from Balancy’s participation in the DevGAMM event in Gdansk. In the video, Julia Iljuk, Head of Growth, delivers a lecture on organizing complex in-game content to streamline the workflow of game designers and programmers: Quick summary of the lecture: Working with certain types of data in spreadsheets…

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6 Tips for Crafting Compelling Special Offers by Vikram Khatri, Jetsynthesys POSTED ON JULY 11, 2023 BY JULIA ILJUK This is a guest post by Vikram Khatri – a Product Manager at Jetsynthesys. Vikram is a product manager with a decade of experience in building and expanding mobile gaming products. With a focus on free-to-play games, he is currently involved…

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The third season of Game Drive has started bringing together game industry experts to chat about LiveOps. For those of you who don’t know, Game Drive is a flagship business accelerator program powered by MY.GAMES, Google, Amazon Web Services, data.ai and Deconstructor of Fun. The two topics covered during this session: Enjoy the video and…

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In the gaming industry, enticing high-paying users, or whales, is essential for generating revenue. Casual gaming companies are constantly seeking innovative ways to encourage these valuable players to make purchases. Recently, while playing ‘Monopoly Go’ by Scopely, I discovered a brilliant monetization tactic. Unlike the traditional ‘pick one’ offer, this approach allowed me to purchase all…

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