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How Top 50 Games Increase Engagement
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How to Make Addictive Mobile Games
Here are the slides from my latest talk at Casual Connect Europe.
The talk addresses the question of how to increase game engagement, user retention...
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About a week ago, Swrve published an infographic with some very interesting data that I would like to share with you. You can dig...
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