What the 10 Best Mobile Games of 2026 Teach Us About Game Design
The top-performing mobile games of 2026 aren't just worth playing — they're worth studying. We ranked the 10 best titles right now by gameplay depth, …
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How to Build a Reward Economy for a Mobile Game
Rewards are the language mobile games use to talk to players. Every coin drop, every chest, every daily login bonus is the game saying: "You did somet…
Game Prototyping: How to Find the Fun Before You Build the Wrong Thing
Most studios do not fail because the idea was bad. They fail because they spent too long on the wrong version of it. Prototyping fixes that. The Four …
Designing a platformer where you don’t control jumping
We recently released a 2D precision platformer on Android, built around a simple question: What happens if the player doesn't control jumping? In most…
Best Game Economy Design Tools for Modern Game Teams
Game economy design has a tooling problem. Every other design discipline has dedicated software, UI designers use Figma, project managers use Jira, en…
Why Spreadsheets Are Not Enough for Game Economy Design
Spreadsheets built game economies before any dedicated tool existed for the job. And honestly — for a long time, they were fine. Simple math, a few cu…