Apple adds 20 new games to Apple Arcade collection. These games include exclusive titles, as well as previously popular App Store games.
Apple keeps adding games to collection. Developers could submit apps for review for inclusion.
Apple Arcade: Show us your game
Apple Newsroom: Apple launches 20 fun new games for its award-winning Apple Arcade service
Sensor Tower published a report on mobile gaming.
The U.S. mobile games market has faced significant challenges during the first half of 2022. Overall U.S. mobile game revenue fell by 9.6 percent Y/Y to $11.4 billion, while downloads declined by 2.5 percent to 2.4 billion. Looking at just 2Q22, revenue decreased by 11.4 percent Y/Y to $5.6 billion, though downloads were largely flat at 1.2 billion.
Sensor Tower
Sensor Tower: Most Mobile Game Genres See Revenue Declines in the U.S. During H1 2022 as Industry Headwinds Bite
Reference: We’re downloading fewer mobile games as lockdowns end and inflation bites
Apple shares story behind "Gibbon: Beyond the trees" game which won Apple Design Award this year.
These articles usually help to understand the vision developers and designers put into their products and, therefore, could be great source of inspiration.
Apple Developer: Behind the Design: Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Google today is rolling out a limited beta test of its newly announced Google Play Games for PC product. The beta program is available in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. The Google Play Games PC application, which was announced last month during The Game Awards event, allows people to play Google Play games on Windows PCs, in addition to currently supported platforms like mobile, tablet, and ChromeOS. The new PC support will include both laptops and desktops, Google said, and players will be able to pick up from where they left off when switching from another device, like their Android phone, over to their computer.
Multiple clones of now popular Wordle game were submitted to App Store, including those with $30 yearly subscription. None of these apps are related to original web game.
After the social network backlash Apple removed all these game clones from App Store.
However, this is not the only scam app on App Store. Another report shows that Apple even promoted scam app with purchased reviews.
So, the problem persists. On the other hand, sometimes unfair and unethical apps are still removed from App Store.
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Flame is a modular Flutter game engine that provides a complete set of solutions for games. Provides you with a simple implementation of the game cycle and the necessary functions that you may need in the game, like input, images, sprites, animation, collision detection, and a component system, which is called Flame Component System (abbreviated FCS).
Apple invites developers to use App Store to promote in-app events such as game events, movie premiers, etc.
In-app events will be visible to iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 users starting October 27.
Starting August 4 new certificate will be available via publicKeyUrl. Previous certificate will be no longer available. Apps should always request certificate via this property. Caching this certificate will result in an error.
During Today's Google for Games Developer Summit Google announced a lot of new tools and statistics related to mobile games development.
