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                      | We schedule these newsletters to come out mid/late Winter and Summer each 
    year, but actually we now figure that it is impossible to accurately schedule 
    because of the many conflicting demands on our time. So this issue is late 
    but future issues will come out when they come out! Key is that it always 
    comes out twice a year, and that is not compromised. This edition has a contribution 
    by Andreas Vourkos of Pollfish, giving his spin on user retention. This issue's 
    in-house article returns to the nature of randomness and how this impacts 
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                      What's New!: Keeping you up-to-date with 
                        general news about company activities and new products. | 
                    
                     
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                      Article: Designing apps 
    that drive user engagement and retention: 
                        Andreas Vourkos takes us into the issues involved in user retention.
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                      Article: Human Randomness: This takes the input of a user trial to look at how humans perceive randomness, and its impact on games.
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                      The 3rd Party Engine resource: AI Factory 
                        has many game engines, all with the same interface for 
                        every platform. | 
                    
                     
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                      Custom AI for 3rd parties: With our background 
                        in AI, we are involved in producing customised AI components 
                        for 3rd party developers. | 
                    
                     
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                      Quality 3D products: We already have a range 
                        of very high quality 3D products with realistic visual 
                        effects. | 
                    
                     
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                      AI Factory home: 
                        This links through to the main AI Factory website. From 
                        there you can review our products and access our engineering 
                        documentation. |