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79-419: Monster Strike ( モンスターストライク , Monsutā Sutoraiku ) is a mobile Japanese role-playing physics game with elements of puzzle , strategy and cooperative multiplayer . It is developed by Mixi for iOS and Android platforms. The game was created by former Capcom game designer Yoshiki Okamoto . In Japan, its name is often shortened to MonSt ( モンスト , Monsuto ) . The game can be summed up as

158-527: A tile-matching video game , the player aims and flicks their monsters around on a field, similar to billiards / pool , bumping off of walls and enemies to perform damage. Colliding the currently in play monster with any of the allied monsters activates Bump Combos ( 友情コンボ , Yūjō Konbo , "Friend Combos") that set off explosions, energy beams, or projectiles to perform damage on opponent monsters. Every turn, numerous counters on enemy monsters count down to launch various attacks that deal damage or add hazards to

237-457: A 4-leaf clover. Other species that have been sold as "4-leaf clovers" include Marsilea quadrifolia . A description from 1869 says that 4-leaf clovers were "gathered at night-time during the full moon by sorceresses, who mixed it with vervain and other ingredients, while young girls in search of a token of perfect happiness made quest of the plant by day." In an 1877 letter to St.   Nicholas Magazine , an 11-year-old girl wrote, "Did

316-556: A common approach for many mobile games going forward. Mobile gaming grew rapidly over the next several years, buoyed by rapid expansion in China . By 2016, top mobile games were earning over US$ 100 million a year, and the total revenue for the mobile games sector had surpassed that of other video game areas. Other major trends in mobile games have include the hyper-casual game such as Flappy Bird and Crossy Road and location-based games like Pokémon Go . Mobile gaming has impacted

395-466: A continuous live connection. This gameplay is different since players take individual turns in the game, therefore allowing players to continue playing against human opponents. This is done using different networks including Facebook . Some companies use a regular turn-based system where the end results are posted so all the players can see who won the tournament. Other companies take screen recordings of live players and broadcast them to other players at

474-485: A cross between Nintendo 's Pokémon and Capcom's Metal Walker ; the former in that it centers around monster collecting and the latter in that battles take place using catapult mechanics. By October 2018, the game grossed over $ 7.2 billion worldwide, surpassing Puzzle & Dragons to become the highest-grossing mobile app of all time. The game has grossed a total revenue at least $ 8.13 billion as of 2019. A more traditional role-playing game of Monster Strike

553-549: A day (to be sealed in plastic as "lucky charms") by introducing a genetically engineered ingredient to the plants to encourage the aberration (there are, however, widely available cultivars that regularly produce leaves with multiple leaflets – see below). There are some cultivars of white clover ( Trifolium repens ) which regularly produce more than three leaflets, including purple-leaved T. repens "Purpurascens Quadrifolium" and green-leaved T. repens "Quadrifolium". Some clovers have more spade-shaped leaves, rather than

632-756: A higher number of leaflets in each generation. Shigeo Obara used the method of natural crossbreeding, while Yoshiharu Watanabe used both natural crossbreeding and manual crossbreeding. The world record for number of four-leaf clovers collected in one hour by an individual is 451, set by American Gabriella Gerhardt in 2019. Gerhardt also has a record-breaking collection of 118,791 four-leaf clovers, as well as 1437 six-leaf clovers and 209 seven-leaf. As stated, clovers can have more than four leaves. 5-leaf clovers are less commonly found naturally than 4-leaf clovers; however, they too have been successfully cultivated. Some 4-leaf clover collectors, particularly in Ireland, regard

711-787: A lack of significant AR mobile games success since, with several AR mobile game projects being shut down, such as Microsoft 's Minecraft Earth and Niantic's Catan: World Explorers Since mobile devices have become present in the majority of households (at least in the developed countries ), there are more and more games created with educational , lifestyle and, health improvement purposes. For example, mobile games can be used in speech-language pathology , children's rehabilitation in hospitals (Finnish startup Rehaboo!), acquiring new useful or healthy habits ( Habitica ), memorizing things and learning languages ( Memrise ). There are also apps with similar purposes which are not games per se, in this case, they are called gamified apps . Sometimes it

790-511: A later point in time to allow players to feel that they are always interacting with another human opponent. Mobile games can be distributed in one of four ways: Until the launch of Apple App Store, in the US, the majority of mobile games were sold by wireless carriers, such as AT&T Mobility , Verizon Wireless , Sprint Corporation and T-Mobile US . In Europe , games were distributed equally between carriers and off-deck, third-party stores. After

869-462: A number of models have developed, and a mobile game developer/publisher may use one or a combination of these models to make revenue. Many game apps are free to play through a combination of these models. Over time, mobile developers of these types of apps have observed that the bulk of their players do not spend any funds on their game, but instead revenues are generated from a small fraction, typically under 10% of their total players. Further, most of

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948-548: A rarity even as programmables became cheap and relatively easy to obtain. It was not until the early 1990s when graphing calculators became more powerful and cheap enough to be common among high school students for use in mathematics. The new graphing calculators, with their ability to transfer files to one another and from a computer for backup, could double as game consoles. Calculators such as HP-48 and TI-82 could be programmed in proprietary programming languages such as RPL programming language or TI-BASIC directly on

1027-418: A role in the frequency of development of four-leaf clovers in cloverplants. A plant hormone called auxin , which plays an important role in plant development , has also been shown to increase the probability of mutations in clovers, especially the development of clovers with more than 4 leaves (reportedly, 5, 6, 7, and 8-leaf clovers were able to be produced by putting a dose of phosphate fertilizer (double than

1106-505: A series of different sets of monsters that have an increased availability, with the rarest found during the Legend Series ( 獣神祭 , Jūshinsai ) events. The Friend Hatcher is sometimes used for giving out rare Event monsters for collaborations, such as with Line Corporation and Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan. The Japanese edition of the game has also featured a special Hatcher to commemorate

1185-402: A stamina-like gameplay feature found in social-network games like FarmVille to limit the number of times one could play it in a single period, but allowed optional in-app purchases to restore that stamina immediately and continue playing. This new monetization brought in millions of players to both games and millions of dollars in revenue, establishing the " freemium " model that would be

1264-427: A wide variety of platforms and technologies. These include the (today largely defunct) Palm OS , Symbian , Adobe Flash Lite , NTT DoCoMo 's DoJa , Sun 's Java , Qualcomm 's BREW , WIPI , BlackBerry , Nook and early incarnations of Windows Mobile . Today, the most widely supported platforms are Apple 's iOS and Google 's Android . The mobile version of Microsoft 's Windows 10 (formerly Windows Phone )

1343-463: Is a cover of Queen 's " We Will Rock You " performed by Japanese vocalist Gloria. A second season of Monster Strike has been announced and premiered on April 1, 2017. On YouTube, the anime series had been watched 100   million times by August 2016, and over 200   million times as of June 2017. The Monster Strike anime got its first spin-off on May 3, 2017, with the A Rhapsody Called Lucy -The Very First Song- OVA episode. This leads into

1422-404: Is also actively supported, although in terms of market share remains marginal compared to iOS and Android. Java was at one time the most common platform for mobile games, however its performance limits led to the adoption of various native binary formats for more sophisticated games. Due to its ease of porting between mobile operating systems and extensive developer community, Unity is one of

1501-548: Is also occasionally run in Japan, providing an increased challenge for players to win rare monsters and prizes. A similar event was held in the North American version of the game for Christmas 2015. Each monster has its own HP, Attack, and Speed statistics. The player's three monsters' HP and their friend or helper's monsters' HP are combined for a total HP. Attack determines how much damage the player's monster does to enemy monsters and Speed determines how fast (how much distance)

1580-408: Is difficult to draw a line between multipurpose games and gamified apps. Many mobile games support multiple players, either remotely over a network or locally via Wi-Fi , Bluetooth or similar technology. There are several options for playing multiplayer games on mobile phones: live synchronous tournaments and turn-based asynchronous tournaments. In live tournaments random players from around

1659-419: Is not clear when or how this idea began. One early mention of "Fower-leafed or purple grasse" is from 1640 and simply says that it was kept in gardens because it was "good for the purples in children or others". A 2017 survey of approximately 5.7 million clovers in six European countries found the frequency of 4-leaf clovers to be about 5000 to 1 (one 4-leaf clover for every ~5000 normal 3-leaf clovers), twice

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1738-514: The App Store in 2008 radically changed the market. The iPhone's focus on larger memory, multitasks , and additional sensing devices , including the touchscreen in later model, made it ideal for casual games , while the App Store, which is also independent from mobile carriers , made it easy for developers to create and post apps to publish, and for users to search for and obtain new games. Further,

1817-449: The COVID-19 pandemic . Monster Strike has been compared to competitor Puzzle & Dragons and other freemium puzzle games in that the player battles waves of monsters to collect them, fuse them, and evolve them and earn gold and other items through gameplay to get stronger monsters, and build a list of friends with monsters to use as well. What sets it apart is that rather than being

1896-495: The Game Boy Color and WonderSwan , respectively. By 2001, i-mode had 20 million users in Japan, along with more advanced handsets with graphics comparable to 8-bit consoles . A wide variety of games were available for the i-mode service, along with announcements from established video game developers such as Taito , Konami, Namco , and Hudson Soft , including ports of classic arcade games and 8-bit console games . By

1975-742: The MSonic! D'Artagnyan's Rise to Fame special mini-series that premiered on June 14, 2017. Both A Rhapsody Called Lucy and MSonic! are set in a separate continuity from the main Monster Strike anime. Mixi released an English version of Monster Strike for North American and Australian markets in 2014. It was marketed on online websites such as on Facebook. However, Mixi ceased marketing in August 2016, with English eventually being shut down in August 2017 due to both competition in those markets. Mobile game In 1997, Nokia launched Snake . Snake , which

2054-496: The Nintendo 3DS was released in Japan on December 17, 2015. It features characters and stories introduced in the anime. Characters based on Japanese YouTubers Tomotake "Max" Murai, former CEO of Japanese iPhone news and reviews site AppBank, and beatboxer Hikakin , who both do Let's Play videos of Monster Strike , are featured in the game as NPCs. Before the launch day, XFLAG announced that they had shipped over one million copies of

2133-764: The TI-59 , published in BYTE in October 1980. The magazine also published a version of Hunt the Wumpus for the HP-41C . Few other games exist for the earliest of programmable calculators (including the Hewlett-Packard 9100A , one of the first scientific calculators), such as the long-popular Lunar Lander game often used as an early programming exercise. However, limited program address space and lack of easy program storage made calculator gaming

2212-422: The iOS App Store from Apple . As the first mobile content marketplace operated directly by a mobile - platform holder , the App Store significantly changed the consumer behaviour and quickly broadened the market for mobile games, as almost every smartphone owner started to download mobile apps . Towards the end of the 20th century, mobile phone ownership became ubiquitous in the industrialised world due to

2291-441: The "freemium" model, in which the base game is free but additional items for the game can be purchased separately. Some of the most popular mobile game developers and publishers include Gameloft and King . Four-leaf clover The four-leaf clover is a rare variation of the common three-leaf clover that has four leaflets instead of three. According to traditional sayings, such clovers bring good luck , although it

2370-445: The 2000s, as over US$ 3 billion worth of games were sold in 2007 internationally, and projected annual growth of over 40%. Ownership of a smartphone alone increases the likelihood that a consumer will play mobile games. Over 90% of smartphone users play a mobile game at least once a week. Many mobile games are distributed free to the end user, but carry paid advertising: examples are Flappy Bird and Doodle Jump . The latter follows

2449-434: The 2001 game BotFighters , were closer to research prototypes rather than being commercial successes. Location-based mobile games sometimes have augmented reality functionality, such as in the case of the 2016 game Pokémon Go . Usually in these cases the augmented reality functionality is not at the center of the experience. Mobile devices have been used as a platform for Augmented reality (AR in short) games, using

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2528-408: The 5-leaf clover, known as a rose clover, as a particular prize. It is debated whether the fourth leaf is caused genetically or environmentally. Its relative rarity (1 in ~5,000 clovers ) suggests a possible recessive gene appearing at a low frequency. Alternatively, four-leaf clovers could be caused by somatic mutation or a developmental error of environmental causes. They could also be caused by

2607-561: The App Store added the ability to support in-app purchases in October 2009. This allowed games like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope to find new monetization models away from the traditional premium "pay once" model. Meanwhile, Apple's disruption caused the market to stabilized around iPhone devices and Google's Android -based phones which offered a similar app store through Google Play . A further major shift game with 2012's Candy Crush Saga and Puzzle & Dragons , games that used

2686-661: The Ascension of other monsters. Completing the levels of a quest awards the player monsters, catalysts, and coins. In Normal Quests, for completing the penultimate level in the quest, players are awarded a rare catalyst and for completing the final level, they are awarded an Orb as well as unlocking a Bonus Level featuring the experience-increasing or high-selling turtle monsters. A Mission Log is also given to players to reach certain goals in Quests to win other Catalysts, Orbs, or experience-increasing monsters. A third set of Quests are available in

2765-669: The Monster Box. During July–September 2014, the game grossed ¥ 19.4 billion ( $ 161 million ) in content revenue, about 90% of Mixi's total income for the quarter. The game's revenue increased to ¥30 billion ( $ 283 million ) in the next quarter, October–December 2014. It overtook Puzzle & Dragons as Japan's highest-grossing mobile app in late 2014, and its revenues exceeded ¥40 billion ( $ 333.8 million ) per quarter during January–March 2015. By March 2015, Monster Strike had been downloaded more than 30 million times and had daily revenues of $ 3.8 million. During April–June 2015,

2844-534: The Temple of Heroes. Clearing any of these awards the player Ableberries ( わくわくの実 , Wakuwaku no Mi , "Exciting Fruit") that gives one of the player's monsters an additional stat bonus. Initially, only certain Hatcher monsters could have an Ableberry. Later, the ability for rare Event Quest monsters to have Ableberries was added, but only if the player has Max Luck on two copies of the same monster. A Tower of Champions event

2923-459: The University of Georgia have reported finding the gene that turns ordinary three-leaf clovers into the coveted four-leaf types. Masked by the three-leaf gene and strongly influenced by environmental conditions, molecular markers now make it possible to detect the presence of the gene for four-leaves and for breeders to work with it. The results of the study, which also located two other leaf traits in

3002-479: The XFLAG brand, after the app became popular in the iOS App Store . In September 2014, it was announced that a North American version and a South Korean version would be released. South Korean support ended on November 30, 2016, while North American support ended on August 1, 2017. A theme song for Monster Strike titled "Hippare! Monster Strike" ( ヒッパレ！モンスターストライク , Hippare! Monsutā Sutoraiku , "Pull! Monster Strike")

3081-469: The built-in games of non- Java or BREW enabled cell phones . Games continue to be programmed on graphing calculators with increasing complexity. A wave of games appeared after the release of the TI-83 Plus / TI-84 Plus series , among TI's first graphing calculators to natively support assembly. TI-BASIC programming also rose in popularity after the release of third-party libraries. Assembly remained

3160-432: The calculator; programs could also be written in assembly language or (less often) C on a desktop computer and transferred to the calculator. As calculators became more powerful and memory sizes increased, games increased in complexity. By the 1990s, programmable calculators were able to run implementations by hobbyists of games such as Lemmings and Doom (Lemmings for HP-48 was released in 1993; Doom for HP-48

3239-416: The captured background, and will be rendered app memorizing as the player moves the device around. The most successful and notable example for a mobile game that has an augmented reality feature is Pokémon Go (2016), where the player travels to locations marked on their GPS map and then can enable the augmented reality mode to find Pokémon creatures to capture. However, as of January 2022 there has been

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3318-485: The commonly stated probability of 10,000 to 1. According to this survey, the frequency of a 5-leaf clover is ~24,400 to 1, and of a 6-leaf clover is ~312,500 to 1. The exact reported frequencies are 5076 to 1 for 4-leaf clovers; 24,390 to 1 for 5-leaf clovers; and 312,500 to 1 for 6-leaf clovers. The clover with the most leaves ever found had 63 of them, and was discovered by Yoshiharu Watanabe of Nasushiobara city, Tochigi prefecture , Japan , on 2 August 2023. The clover

3397-520: The desire for handset games was a version of Snake that Nokia had included on its devices since 1997. In 1999, NTT Docomo launched the i-mode mobile platform in Japan, allowing mobile games to be downloaded onto smartphones . Several Japanese video game developers announced games for the i-mode platform that year, such as Konami announcing its dating simulation Tokimeki Memorial . The same year, Nintendo and Bandai were developing mobile phone adapters for their handheld game consoles ,

3476-401: The device's camera(s) to as an input for the game. While playing the game, the player aims the device's camera at a location and through the device's screen, sees the area captured by the camera plus computer-generated graphics atop it, augmenting the display and then allowing the player to interact that way. The graphics are generally drawn as to make the generated image appear to be part of

3555-513: The establishment of industry standards, and the rapid fall in cost of handset ownership, and use driven by economies of scale . As a result of this explosion, technological advancement by handset manufacturers became rapid. With these technological advances, mobile phone games also became increasingly sophisticated, taking advantage of exponential improvements in display , processing , storage , interfaces , network bandwidth and operating system functionality. The first such game that demonstrated

3634-425: The field. Player monsters often have other unique passive abilities to counter these hazards, or may have passive abilities that cause greater damage to particular kinds of enemy monsters. Some monsters also have gauges that when it is launched at the right time, it activates a secondary gauge ability as well as slightly increases their attack strength. Each of the player's monsters also has its own counter, which allows

3713-475: The game grossed over $ 7.2 billion worldwide, surpassing Puzzle & Dragons to become the highest-grossing mobile app of all time. The game grossed a further ¥101.6 billion ( $ 926 million ) in Japan during 2019, bringing the game's total revenue to at least $ 8.13 billion as of 2019. It was the world's second top-grossing mobile game during the 2020 New Year period, behind only fellow JRPG title Fate/Grand Order . A RPG version of Monster Strike for

3792-510: The game was fun, but similar to other games on the market, and had concerns about the length of the game's tutorial levels. On Pocket Gamer , the reviewer found the game not challenging, as there did not seem to be any strategy, and as it is easy to earn Orbs (the premium currency), he could easily use the Hatcher to get better monsters, resulting in just a wait for the Stamina to refill and fuse monsters, until you run out of gold to fuse and space in

3871-493: The game's revenue increased to ¥47 billion ( $ 378 million ) per quarter. By June 30, 2015, daily revenues reached $ 4.2 million. During April–December 2015, the game grossed approximately ¥135 billion ( $ 1.224 billion ), roughly 90% of Mixi's sales during the period. It was the highest-grossing mobile game of 2016, earning a revenue of $ 1.3 billion for the year, more than Pokémon Go and Clash Royale . Monster Strike earned another $ 1.3 billion in 2017, when it

3950-464: The game, making it the highest selling Japan-only 3DS release of all time. The game debuted in Japan at the No.1 spot in the weekly sales chart based on figures by Media Create , selling a total of 437,903 copies, and dethroning Monster Hunter Generations after a three-week streak in the top spot. A web anime adaptation of Monster Strike premiered on October 10, 2015, on YouTube. The series' ending theme

4029-442: The interaction of several genes that happen to segregate in the individual plant. It is possible all four explanations could apply to individual cases. This means that multiple four-leaf clovers could be found in the same cloverplant, and a cloverplant that already has a clover with an abnormal number of leaflets has a higher chance of growing or having another abnormal clover than a cloverplant that doesn't have any. Researchers from

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4108-473: The language of choice for these calculators, which run on a Zilog Z80 processor, although some assembly implements have been created to ease the difficulty of learning assembly language. For those running on a Motorola 68000 processor (like the TI-89 ), C programming (possible using TIGCC) has begun to displace assembly. Because they are easy to program without outside tools, calculator games have survived despite

4187-416: The larger video game market by drawing demand away from handheld video game consoles ; both Nintendo and Sony had seen major drops in sales of their 2011 handhelds compared to their 2004 predecessors as a result of mobile gaming. At the same time, mobile gaming introduced the concept of microconsoles , low-cost, low-powered home video game consoles that used mobile operating systems to take advantage of

4266-617: The launch of Apple App Store, the mobile OS platforms like Apple iOS , Google Android , and Microsoft Windows Phone , the mobile OS developers themselves have launched digital download storefronts that can be run on the devices using the OS or from software used on PCs. These storefronts (like Apple's iOS App Store ) act as centralized digital download services from which a variety of entertainment media and software can be downloaded, including games and nowadays majority of games are distributed through them. The popularity of mobile games has increased in

4345-552: The mid-2000s there was a large market for mobile games, of which many were built on the Java ME platform that many devices at the time supported. Earlier they could be obtained using SMS short codes before manufacturers as well as mobile network operators started offering them for download both on the Web (on a PC to be transferred to the device) or directly via the air (using GPRS , 3G or Wi-Fi ). The launch of Apple's iPhone in 2007 and

4424-416: The monster travels in a single turn. These values are increased by fusing monsters together to gain experience, or using special stat-only increasing monsters. There is also a Luck ( ラック , Rakku ) value, symbolized by a four-leaf clover , that determines the possibility of obtaining bonus prizes at the end of a Mission. Luck can only be increased by fusing two of the same monsters together, or monsters in

4503-470: The most widely used engines used by modern mobile games. Apple provide a number of proprietary technologies (such as Metal ) intended to allow developers to make more effective use of their hardware in iOS-native games. With the introduction of the iOS App Store and support for in-app purchases by October 2009, the methods through which mobile games earn revenue have diverged significantly away from traditional game models on consoles or computers. Since 2009,

4582-401: The normal dose) in the soil where "special" white clover seeds were put (from a special cultivar that produces 4-leaf clovers more frequently than what normal cloverplants do), as well as watering these seeds with a 0.7% solution of auxin in water, during the course of the 10-day experiment). There are reports of farms in the US which specialize in four-leaf clovers, producing as many as 10,000

4661-455: The number of the player's available saved monsters, restore Stamina used to play Missions, or use them in the game's Hatcher to earn powerful and rare monsters. The game was created by former Capcom game designer Yoshiki Okamoto . Monster Strike was originally released in Japan in September 2013, and by November 2013 it was credited with saving Mixi , originally a social media network, under

4740-527: The platform level) place constraints on file size that presently rule out the direct migration of many modern PC and console games to mobile. One major problem for developers and publishers of mobile games is describing a game in such detail that it gives the customer enough information to make a purchasing decision. Games played on a mobile device using localization technology like GPS are called location-based games or location-based mobile games . These are not only played on mobile hardware but also integrate

4819-500: The player to activate the monster's Strike Shot ( ストライクショット , Sutoraiku Shotto ) attack to perform more damage. The final battle of each Quest Mission features a Boss monster that has a moving critical hit point. Monster Strike also offers co-operative play for up to 4 players. Quests in the game are divided into Solo and Co-Op and then Normal and Event. Event Quests are only available for limited periods of time and often feature rare monsters that are powerful or that can be used in

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4898-543: The player's position into the game concept. In other words, while it does not matter for a normal mobile game where exactly the player is (play them anywhere at any time), the player's coordinate and movement are the main elements in a location-based mobile game. A well known example is the outdoor recreational activity of geocaching , which can be played on any mobile device with integrated or external GPS receiver. External GPS receivers are usually connected via Bluetooth . Several other location-based mobile games, such as

4977-531: The proliferation of mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs . Total global revenue from mobile games was estimated at $ 2.6 billion in 2005 by Informa Telecoms and Media . Total revenue in 2008 was $ 5.8 billion. The largest mobile gaming markets were in the Asia-Pacific nations Japan and China , followed by the United States . In 2012, the market had already reached $ 7.8 billion A new report

5056-456: The release of Godzilla requiring special Godzilla Sharls to use it. Collaborations have also been made with Lawson 's convenience store chain, Monster Hunter Big Game Hunting Quest , Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!! , Game Walker , Parasyte , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Rebuild of Evangelion , Love Live! Sunshine!! and Ultraman . The game has an in-game store to purchase Orbs that are used to continue lost Missions, expand

5135-656: The revenue is generated by a very small fraction, about 2%, of the total players, who routinely spend large amounts of money on the game. A similar split on revenue had been seen in social-network games played in browsers . These players are known as "whales", inspired by same term used for high rolling gamblers . The social nature of a mobile game has also been found to affect its revenue, as games that encourage players to work in teams or clans will lead to increased spending from engaged players. Mobile games tend to be small in scope (in relation to mainstream PC and console games). Storage and memory limitations (sometimes dictated at

5214-551: The same evolutionary line; fusing two Red Smydras or a Red Drake and a Red Smydra will both cause Luck to increase. An additional Luck Skill was added to the game, allowing certain monsters to either have a critical hit or a shield to prevent damage on one turn. After raising a monster to its maximum level, the player can Evolve ( 進化 , Shinka ) them through the use of Evolution Catalysts ( 進化アイテム , Shinka Aitemu , "Evolution Items") . Players can also Ascend ( 神化 , Kamika ) their monsters into even more powerful forms through

5293-451: The three in the study were very rare. These traits can be quite attractive, particularly if combined with others, and can turn clover into an ornamental plant for use in flower beds. According to an experiment made in 2019 by the, at that moment, 17-year old Minori Mori, from Tsukuba , Japan, four-leaf clovers seem to be more likely to appear in well- fertilized soil. Phosphates (a common ingredient in fertilizers) have been proved to play

5372-476: The use of other monsters with specific Luck levels. Divination ( 獣神化 , Jūshinka ) is a combination of the two evolutions, giving the monster a second tier to their Strike Shot and a second slot for an Ableberry. The game also features Hatchers ( ガチャ , Gacha ) that the player spends either Friend Points (earned through choosing another player's monster to complete a level) for fairly common monsters or Orbs for rarer monsters. The main Hatcher cycles through

5451-446: The usual rounded ones. This may be a genetic mutation. Some genetic mutations in clovers include spade-like shaped leaves or a dotted rusty color on the leaves. Trifolium repens "Good Luck" is a cultivar which has three, four, or five green, dark-centered leaflets per leaf. Other plants may be mistaken for, or misleadingly sold as, "4-leaf clovers"; for example, Oxalis tetraphylla is a species of wood sorrel with leaves resembling

5530-622: The white-clover genome, were reported in the July/August 2010 edition of Crop Science , published by the Crop Science Society of America. The other leaf traits, the red fleck mark and red midrib, a herringbone pattern that streaks down the center of each leaflet in a bold red color, were mapped to nearby locations, resolving a century-old question as to whether these leaf traits were controlled by one gene or two separate genes. White clover has many genes that affect leaf color and shape, and

5609-489: The wide variety of games available on these platforms. Calculator gaming is a form of gaming in which games are played on programmable calculators , especially graphing calculators . In 1980, Casio 's MG-880 pocket calculator had a built-in "Invaders" game (essentially a downscaled Space Invaders clone), released in the Summer that year. Another early example is the type-in program Darth Vader's Force Battle for

5688-423: The world are matched together to compete. This is done using different networks such as Game Center , Google Play Games , and Facebook . In asynchronous tournaments, there are two methods used by game developers centered around the idea that players matches are recorded and then broadcast at a later time to other players in the same tournament. Asynchronous gameplay resolves the issue of needing players to have

5767-433: Was pre-installed in most mobile devices manufactured by Nokia for a couple of years, has since become one of the most played games, at one point found on more than 350 million devices worldwide. Mobile devices became more computationally advanced allowing for downloading of games, though these were initially limited to phone carriers' own stores. Mobile gaming grew greatly with the development of app stores in 2008, such as

5846-494: Was created in 1995 ). Some games such as Dope Wars caused controversy when students played them in school. The look and feel of these games on an HP-48 class calculator, due to the lack of dedicated audio and video circuitry providing hardware acceleration, can at most be compared to the one offered by 8-bit handheld consoles such as the early Game Boy or the Gameking ( low resolution , monochrome or grayscale graphics), or to

5925-446: Was from the species Trifolium repens L., or the white clover ; beating the previous record, a 56-leaf clover (of the same species) found by Shigeo Obara of Hanamaki city, Iwate prefecture , Japan, on 10 May 2009. Both men obtained clovers with such a number of leafleats through crossbreeding cloverplants with a high rate of clovers with an abnormal number of leaflets, causing that, on average, cloverplants generated clovers with

6004-625: Was released for the Nintendo 3DS in December 2015. The game was adapted into an anime series in 2015. An anime film adaptation titled Monster Strike The Movie was released on December 10, 2016. A second anime film, titled Monster Strike the Movie: Sora no Kanata , was released on October 5, 2018, in Japan. A third anime film titled Monster Strike The Movie: Lucifer Zetsubō no Yoake was slated to be released in June 2020 but it has since been delayed due to

6083-528: Was released in November 2015 showing that 1887 app developers would make more than one million dollars on the Google and iOS app stores in 2015. Mobile gaming revenue reached $ 50.4 billion in 2017, occupying 43% of the entire global gaming market and poised for further growth. It is expected to surpass the combined revenues from both PC gaming and console gaming in 2018. Mobile games have been developed to run on

6162-439: Was the year's third highest-grossing mobile game, behind Arena of Valor and Fantasy Westward Journey . In Japan, the game grossed ¥104.1 billion ( $ 949 million ) between January 2017 and October 3, 2017. By May 2018, the game had over 45   million players worldwide. The game's popularity has led to a partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to issue VISA credit cards in Japan in 2015. By October 2018,

6241-528: Was written by Nagae Kuwabara (lyrics) and Riichiro Kuwabara (composition) and performed by Hironobu Kageyama . Kageyama performed it live for the first time at the Monster Strike first anniversary event at the Nico Nico Douga live house nicofarre on October 25, 2014, and the song was later released for sale on October 29. With the English language version's release, a reviewer for Android Authority said that

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