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Latest Update Notes: Smash Emoji Crush 2017

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Latest Update Notes: Smash Emoji Crush 2017 Improved loading to eliminate delays Updated graphics with beautiful new logo, loading screen, map select backgrounds, and more!  Download now and play!  Smash Emoji Crush 2017 Signup for our  mailing list  to be the first in the know 🍪🎉😎
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Update 1.5 is live: Smash Monster Crush 2017

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Update 1.5: The Summer Housekeeping Update As we previewed early, the changes to remove the floating banner advertisement and tidy up a couple game interfaces is now live. Where do I download the update? You should visit the Apple app store to download the 1.5 update. Click here  to visit the Apple app store to begin downloading the update. What sort of things are in this update? The exciting change for us is the removal of the banner ad showing in the game. We've removed that altogether. Get your puzzle on! In addition to this, we've added a few more buttons and cleaned up a couple game interfaces. We think you'll like the small changes we've done there as we tidy up the title. GET YOUR PUZZLE ON!
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PREVIEW: Sky War's - The DUNKIRK Heavy Armor

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What better way to celebrate the release of The DUNKIRK MOVIE than with our own homage. Introducing the newest available playable plane: Dunkirk! We've placed the ship in the loot crate as a special drop. You have a one in ten chance that any crate you open will contain this ship. Prefer to acquire it with your loot? It's available for purchase in the store. The Dunkirk features a unique special ability to reinforce the idea of "heavy armor". In addition to being the highest class armor for it's tier of ship, the Dunkirk features HEALTH REGENERATION ! Health will slowly regenerate over time up to the maximum purchased from Dunkirk's available upgrades. PRESS GALLERY
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4 Tips for effective autoplay that enhances your mobile game (Autoplay in mobile games, Part I)

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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,...
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DevTalk: SKY WARS 1.4: The one where the advertisements were fed to the sharks

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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...
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