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Create free accountbut yeah I think we've got some of the people here so I'll introduce them when they're ready to come up and we can sort of get started on the history of mobile games quest but yeah I'm really looking forward to this I won't be competing I've had a sneak peek at some of the questions so it'll be exciting to see how everyone does oh there we go hey Sophia how you doing I'm good thanks how are you I am good I'm good ready site for the quiz yes so am i it should be good but how are things on your end where are you at the moment to you so I'm based in London North West London you are you're here in the UK as well I'm a little bit further up north but yes at least it's still light here at
the moment all right here to azure but it's my last call of the day so hopefully we can get someone some good prizes yeah have a bit of fun at the end of the day they're fantastic so I suppose do you have everything that you need yes let me make sure you guys can see my screen and course we've got a couple of minutes so don't worry we'll get everything sort of ready let the last few people jump in and get ready but yes been excited hopefully you've had a good day at the show as well I say at the show I mean with the show it's a bit weird isn't it did yourself yeah they're kind of tuned in I hear a lot of the sports obviously some of my colleagues spoke as well but yeah in terms of what's going on the industry in general right now really interesting to kind of hear people's feedback yeah definitely definitely well I suppose we're near enough that time so I will let you get on with it but yeah looking forward to the quiz and I think everyone else's and I will say to everyone just
like I'm sure you're going to as well because I've seen there s any people you know you've got the chat function as well there so make sure if you're on a device such as a tablet or anything you've got your chat function ready to go yeah I'll leave you to it yeah Cheers so yes thank you guys the AMIA folks for for giving me some of your evening and for everyone else all around the world for letting me I guess present this as part of your day and let's get going on half an hour history of mobile gaming quiz and let me make sure so just to introduce myself my name is Sean Baliga and I'm part of the apps live cells team based here in London it says gaming that I cover a range of different kind of verticals kind of different customers within the UK so if anyone has any questions from evil what some of my colleagues have said today or just interested in learning more about apps flyer and kind of what we do feel
free to reach out to me and would be happy to have a chat so yes prizes I'm really upset actually that I can take part in the quiz myself I only found out about these prizes today but for the second third and fourth places a 50 pound Amazon gift card but if you're like me would actually come in very useful the my Amazon spend has kind of gone up incredibly since since the pandemic and for the first-place prize an iPhone 11 64 gigabytes so it's also playful with this place today and in terms of the format's give me one minute my Google Drive is messing up me see if I can make that a bit bigger mobile the fema's mobile gaming past and present so
we have 10 questions fastest fingers firsts you also have in the chat and my wonderful colleague Alyssa will be keeping score questions once an iron our one point the final question is five points and hopefully I don't know if we'll be able to tally everything up kind of in real-time so we know who the winners are now but obviously we'll fill out with everyone and make sure that everyone gets their prizes so onto question 1 the legendary handheld and mobile game Hammacher Tetris was first developed in 1984 but what was the nap NASA what nationality was the developer a Belgian B Chinese C Portuguese D Russian or e Vietnamese and I'll give you guys a few
seconds to answer the first question as we get rolling fun fact Tetris was inspired by a wooden puzzle game called pants aminos hope I'm saying that right pentomino Spencer miners and I'll just give you guys a few more seconds to answer that first question so just before I move to the next question hopefully we have a few answers in the chat as I said before it's kind of fastest rate fastest trigger the answer to that one is d Russian so the creator of Tetris was Russian question to snake was the world's first ever mobile gaming here I'm sure we all remember kind of those
first Nokia's that we got where we were much younger and being able to play snake on your phone but what in what year did it launch we have a 1997 B 1999 C 2001 D 2002 and E 2004 fun fact again snake was launched on the Nokia 6110 I'm pretty sure I had destroyed I'm trying to flash back to my youth I'm pretty sure I had this phone at some point why I'm sure we can all remember playing snake endlessly as it was the only thing to play back in those days giving you guys a few minutes there or if you sorry a few seconds just to answer that one and the answer
to that one is a 1997 as when snake was first launched on the Nokia 6110 question number three world famous puzzler candy crush launched in 2012 how many levels are there currently in play I'm sure someone on this cool must know that I'll be honest I don't know the answer so I couldn't be sure giving that we are at Pocket Gamer connects someone must know the answers to that question I'm actually interested to know myself for the answers to that question there's us interesting we have a 850 B 3600 C 5000 d7100 or e 19,000 and 500 how many
levels are there currently in play for the world famous candy crush launched in 2012 giving you guys a few more seconds I'm not actually keeping an eye on the chat so I have no idea what's going on the chat right now hopefully you guys what's happened something in there what answer to this question number three is d7100 7100 a lot of sell-off levels to play of candy crush moving on question number four overnight sensation yeah pretty much was an overnight sensation wasn't it flappy bird was released in May 2013 but when did its creator removed it from iTunes and Google Play
was it a twenty two days later B two months later see nine months later be 18 months later and fun facts dong UN is creator claimed its removal had nothing to do with legal issues which is a really great fun fact you mean you guys a few seconds to answer this question when did flappy birds creator remove it from iTunes and Google Play was it twenty two days later two months later nine months later or eighteen months later the answer to question number four is C nine months later flappy bird was removed from iTunes and Google Play and it had nothing to do with any legal issues question number five strategy behemoth
clash of clans requires players to develop troops and spells using what key ingredients and I'm sure there are some clash of clans fans within this call right now was it a Heineken be elixir see tree sap D magic potion lemme turn off my Alexa Alexis not for you e honey fun fact in 2015 Liam Neeson appeared oh my gosh appeared in a supercell TV advert aired during the US Super Bowl question number five using what key ingredient and I'll give you guys a few seconds to answer this
one hopefully I completely shut off my Alexa right now it's probably think she's trying to win an iPhone the answer to question number five we're halfway through now ladies and gents is B elixir on to question number six as augmented reality at Pokemon though shots of Fame in 2016 Nintendo share price grew by 25% in one day adding how much to the company's value was it a nine hundred and fifty million dollars B one point nine billion dollars C 3.2 billion dollars or D seven billion dollars you guys can see a little
screenshot of that stock price just shooting up their bottom right-hand corner fun fact Pokemon bow is reported to have taken players to a number of bizarre locations including graveyards strip clubs and police stations as someone that played Pokemon Bo I can I can swear that I didn't take you to any of these places but it definitely a up a lot of my money in kind of the first week that I was playing it very very excited slow playing Pokemon go back in 2016 white in regards to the share price growing how much did it add to Nintendo's company value was at 950 million 1.9 billion 3.2 billion or 7 billion the answer to question number 6 is D 7 billion dollars
Pokemon go added to Nintendo's company value absolutely astonishing ok as we get into the latter half of the quiz almost there guys again I'm not keeping an eye on the chats or hopefully you guys are keeping Alyssa busy sorry Alyssa question number 7 in 2018 according to census our the highest score grossing mobile game of all time was monster strike uh who is the developer option a lion option B play Rick's option C mixi option B gung-ho fun facts monster strike who supported surf made over eight billion dollars for its owner
he definitely doesn't need to kind of win in my friend on this quiz does he question number seven guys I'll give everyone a few seconds to make sure they get their answers into the chat fires grossing mobile game in 2018 was monster strike according to census our who was the developer lion play Rick's mixi or gung ho the answer to question number seven is option C mixi last three questions ladies and gents hopefully I've built off a bit of tensions going throughout this maybe you guys again a bit nervous question number eight in
2019 cross-platform battle royale game fortnight held a World Cup how much money was an offer for first place option a 1.5 million dollars option B two million dollars option C three million dollars regardless of those options I definitely to start playing for a night definitely fun facts in March 2019 fortnight was reported to have around two hundred and fifty million registered players give a few seconds for this one as we finish out the quiz is two more questions after this to go in 2019 cross-platform battle royale game fortnight how to work up how much money was on offer for first place the
answer to question number 8 is see three million dollars to the winner of the 2014 2019 sorry for that World Cup last two questions question number nine which is the only attribution provider its offer campaign level in-app advertising whereas measurement on Facebook from her bar game publishers you got and said I'm not biased far as I wear this t-shirt option number a apps flyer option number B apps flower option number C apps flower option number D all of the above fun facts apps live processes more than 3 trillion events per month small plug
if anyone wants to have any conversations about apps I and regards to how we can make it work for your business in your app feel free to follow up with follow up with us afterwards and I'm sure it's pretty obvious by how this question is set how the answer the question number 9 is all of them so that is pretty much a gimme for you guys last question and this question is for five points so everyone be sure to pay attention according to statistic how many gaming apps were available in Google Play in q1 2020 fun fact in March 2018 there were three point six million apps in the Google Play Store is it option number a three hundred forty seven thousand
is it option number B four hundred ninety eight thousand obscene number C seven hundred twenty five thousand option number D 1.2 million in Korean II have about a minute left I'll give you guys a few seconds to get your answers in according to statistic how many gaming apps were available in Google Play in q1 of this crazy 2020 that we've had so far the answer to the last question on the absalom of our game in quiz is a three hundred and forty seven thousand so I hope you guys really enjoyed the quiz I very much enjoyed
hosting it for you and I can't wait to see who it comes away with the prizes at the end especially that iPhone I'm very jealous and as I go to this next slide let's just make sure that everyone's has their email addresses submitted I'm not sure through which you would do that whether it's through the chats or I'm sure we have all of your details but we will follow up with you shortly I'm sure Sophia can tell you what will follow up with you shortly to make sure everyone's aware of any prizes that they have won yes so definitely like you say Shawn please do throw your email addresses into the chat function at the bottom I know I've got one from attach but if you want to just throw that again or into the Q&A I don't think it really matters you've done both so it's great we've got you covered in all sorts of areas but yes we'll be checking all that out in
the background totaling it up and I'm sure one of your team will be getting in touch to let everyone know who's won all the amazing prizes and what plug for me actually says wrong mama connects our gaming event holy done by outside the net is on June 30th 10 a.m. British Standard Time 11 a.m. Central European Time are we headed to the cloud in mobile gaming so if you're interested we read feel free to register here that link or just reach out to one of us afterwards yeah definitely sounds quite interesting obviously cloud gaming za-- a big thing at the moment but is something that I feel like we're still in the process of maximizing so there's a lot of opportunities there but yeah no thank you so much for doing the Krishan it's a shame I couldn't join myself as much as I wanted to but given I'd seen the questions beforehand as part of the preparation it would not have been fair but thank you know and a really lovely way to end and what's been an amazing day a good bit of fun you know get everyone involved and everything like
that so yeah thank you so much cheers guys thank you but yeah of course a big thank you to Shawn but a big THANK YOU to Apps flyer in general for you know being a sponsors for the growth track it's been really great morning and afternoon for us here in the UK but obviously for everyone else there's been two different sessions so thank you so much for being a part of all of that you
The mobile gaming industry has experienced rapid evolution since its inception, a trajectory highlighted through a ten-question historical quiz presented at the Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2 event in June 2020. The session served as an interactive review of key milestones, ranging from the origins of mobile hardware gaming to the massive scale of modern mobile titles. By examining specific industry benchmarks, the quiz underscored the transition of mobile gaming from a niche pastime to a multi-billion dollar global economic force.
Key data points from the session illustrate the industry's growth and impact. The history of mobile gaming began with the 1997 launch of Snake on the Nokia 6110, while the legendary puzzle game Tetris, developed by a Russian creator in 1984, remains a foundational influence. Modern mobile gaming is characterized by massive scale, as evidenced by Candy Crush, which features over 7,100 levels, and the 2019 Fortnite World Cup, which offered a $3 million prize for first place. Furthermore, the industry’s financial significance is highlighted by the 2016 launch of Pokémon Go, which increased Nintendo’s market value by $7 billion in a single day, and the success of Monster Strike, which generated over $8 billion for its developer, Mixi.
The session also touched upon the competitive and technical landscape of the industry, noting that as of the first quarter of 2020, there were approximately 347,000 gaming apps available on the Google Play Store. The presentation emphasized the role of data measurement and attribution in the mobile ecosystem, highlighting the massive scale of event processing—exceeding 3 trillion events per month—required to support modern game publishers. These insights reflect a maturing industry that continues to prioritize cross-platform engagement and cloud-based innovation.
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