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Look around the web and you’ll find a lot of hate for autoplay in games. I admit, we at Arkitome puzzled over it for quite a while ourselves, wondering “What’s the point of playing a game if you’re not going to PLAY the game?!” Yet it's everywhere! From casino slot games to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, autoplay seems to have become a key feature of today’s mobile games. Through exploration and research and adventures in game-making we’ve learned a lot about autoplay. Here we’ll share some tips we’ve compiled to help our fellow mobile game developers understand the role of autoplay in the game you're building. 1. Take a holistic approach  Consider these 3 spheres of gameplay: Mechanical Gameplay (Intrinsic rewards) Physical skills such as tapping, clicking, swiping Includes real-time battle reactions and decisions Meta Gameplay (Extrinsic rewards) Long-term strategic decisions and growth optimization Resource management  Includes collecting, upgrading,...

Want to know more about the REMOVAL of pervasive advertising in the 1.4 update of Sky Wars? Read on, here. In this post we hear from the development team's thoughts on why advertising was completely rethought in Sky Wars. Hello there! There's a balancing act in mobile games. On the one hand, as a player you expect and tolerate a certain amount of intrusiveness for a free game. If it doesn't support IAP, most likely the game has advertising. If the advertising is done well, then you shouldn't even notice. If it's not done well, then you're like Buzz and Woody here: It's not fun to work on skill mastery of a level, only to experience both crushing defeat and then be presented an ad immediately after being blown to pieces. One of our first steps to making Sky War just a better game was to go back to basics and look at what makes it fun. Is it fun watching advertisements on every screen? No. Are there places where advertising is OK? Yes. How we lo...