Mathematicians have proved that Candy Crush is a complex game; a Chinese publisher invests $ 600 million in mobile games; Techcrunch claims that the game console market is in crisis – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Thursday, March 13.
Business
The Chinese publisher of online projects ChangYou announced plans to invest $ 600 million in the development of mobile games in the next three years.
Comparing the sales of consoles in the USA in January 2007 with the sales of consoles in January 2014 on Techcrunch, they assure: the game console market is in deep crisis.
In his opinion, Techcrunch’s conclusions are far from fair. Therefore, the console market is still more alive than dead.
http://recode.net/2014/03/12/no-the-console-market-is-not-in-crisis-not-yet-anyway/Marketing
Chartboost has launched the InPlay service, which allows developers to easily integrate video into applications.
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/03/facebook-ad-network-at-f8/Development
About the theory of the “impressiveness curve”, as well as the fact that Candy Crush perfectly uses an approach that, quite possibly, will soon be called the secret of Flappy Bird’s success. The point is that high addiction is due to elementary game mechanics with “twisted” complexity.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.1911v1.pdfPlatforms
The iOS 7.1 update brought a lot of problems to users. Now, according to users, Touch ID and Wi-fi work worse.
http://www.mobileworldlive.com/google-hit-legal-action-kids-app-purchases