First Run
The first sixty seconds
Most players who leave, leave immediately, so the opening is the most designed part of the game.
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First Run
Tutorials and the first session.
Most players who leave, leave immediately, so the opening is the most designed part of the game
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Most of the players who leave, leave in the first minute. A section on the most heavily designed part of a mobile game, and on the three numbers used to judge whether it worked.
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First Run
Teaching without text
Constrained first levels teach by making the wrong move impossible.
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First Run
Retention curves
Day one, day seven, day thirty — and what those three numbers hide.
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