Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

The downward trend had just been broken in 2021, which marked the first year with growing numbers since being acquired by Tencent in 2016. Revenue was down 6% and is at roughly €1.8B, which is down from 2021 but still up by a significant margin from 2020. Sometimes the boring quality of life updates over the exciting additions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The main differences are that character skills get upgraded during the match (a la League of Legends) and that 2 of the skills are selected from a list shared among all characters (which allows some OP combinations). In August 2021, WolfFun announced that they would re-release Heroes Strike as a blockchain game under the name Thetan Arena.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Create an account 2. Since launching in early 2021, Cookie Run: Kingdom has amassed quarter of a Billion in revenue with only 22 million downloads. In this episode of Gamecamole, we will investigate Cookie Run: Kingdom from the South Korean developer Devsister, a card battling RPG mobile game that became a cultural phenomenon in 2021.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. And as the year progresses, Lilith’s slate looks extremely strong with one game scaling in soft-launch and another very promising shooter title set to launch in 2021. PvP Tower Defense games will be the new hot thing in 2021. Access all of our previous predictions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 19, 2022

Sign up with your email address to receive the full PDF report, and subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun and Naavik newsletters. Use code “NAAVIKDOF” to receive a -10% discount for the first subscription year. The total market cap of SLP has now returned to values not seen since April of 2021. Download Full PDF Report.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Internal changes are hard to showcase, but if you are curious to learn a bit more, Godot's lead developer Juan Linietsky ( reduz ) has covered some of the bigger improvements made in the engine core in several blog posts last year, check them out: 1 , 2. Check out his and Juan's blog posts on some of the improvements: 1 , 2.

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