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Social casino LiveOps Strategy Here are 15 event types that keep players hooked:(used by top games like Monopoly Go, Coin Master, and Dice Dreams)1. 🏆 Leaderboard Tournament • Players collect event items in core gameplay • Enter a leaderboard for 1–2 days • Top players win real-time rewards2. 🗺️ Treasure Hunt • Hidden rewards with empty slots to build suspense • Players earn picks from gameplay or offers • Multi-stage events lasting up to 9 days3. 📶 Milestone Rewards • Collect target items to unlock better rewards • Progress bar shows advancement • Great for 1–6 day events4. 🃏 Collection: Album • Cards drop from different events • Complete time-limited collections • Finish all collections = major reward5. 🎰 Rolling Offer • Series of rewards revealed one by one • Starts free to pull players in • Paid steps get […]

How to improve your mobile game metrics? From retention to monetization, here’s what the best teams focus on:1. 🎮 First-Time User Experience • Focus: D1 retention, tutorial completion • Keep tutorials short, clear, and rewarding • Add early premium rewards or bonus levels • Avoid aggressive monetization or long tutorials2. ⏱ Short-Term Engagement • Focus: D3–D7 retention, level churn • Build clear player progression • Use daily quests, upgrade systems, progress bars • Make progression feel valuable, not trivial3. 🔁 Long-Term Engagement • Focus: D30–D90 retention, sticky factor • Introduce long-term goals and meta layers • Add global maps, leaderboards, customization • Balance grind with meaningful rewards to prevent burnout4. 🕹 Core Gameplay • Focus: Session length, playtime • Polish mechanics and controls • Add dynamic difficulty, diverse enemies, win streaks • Strong core loop is essential—don’t patch it later5. […]

How to turn your special offers into a revenue machine (without annoying your players) Special offers aren’t just about discounts - they’re about design, psychology, and timing.Done right, they boost engagement, LTV, and retention.Done wrong, they just collect dust.Here are a few of the strategies from this week’s carousel: 👇🔹 Bundling value without overwhelming the player🔹 Using scarcity without feeling scammy🔹 Segmenting offers by player type, session behavior, and UA source🔹 Creating a “flow” of purchases with chained deals🔹 Why visuals (not pricing) often make or break the sale💡 If you’re running a free-to-play game and want to actually monetize it, this deck is worth a swipe.

Royal Match really knows how to make small wins feel huge. Loved this moment where just before starting a new level, you're reminded you finished first in the event — and boom, that glowing reward chest drops in with a satisfying animation. Super clean design. Super motivating. One of the best at turning UI into a celebration.

Warning ☢️ Heavy Game Design podcast ahead. Do you know the main difference between the 3 most common Gacha (lootbox) types on the market? 🤔 ▪️ 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝 𝐓𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐚 (𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯, 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘥, 𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘞𝘢𝘳)This is the initial setup introduced in Japan. Monster strike already passed $8 Bill. lifetime revenue with it. Tokens can consume only few of their duplicates. The key is to upgrade all of their other progression vectors such as skill trees, equipment, skills, level, etc. Low rarity characters are used as upgrade fuel. Collection number dramatically increases through the lifecycle of the game into hundreds or thousands. 🎰 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺: Best characters are extremely hard to get and are dropped from timed exclusive drop pools.💰 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦: Characterized by spiky revenue, that jumps always with a new content release and then goes down dramatically until the next content drop. 👀 […]