Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

source: Newzoo reports The engagement and spending boom ended in 2022 and was replaced by high inflation, high-interest rates, a careful investment environment, layoffs, and wars. On the bright side, the lack of investments in new content will lead to an unanswered demand in a couple of years when the market turns around once again.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 4, 2023

A larger drop can be identified if we compare Q2 2023 to Q2 2022. As one might have expected, we can see several oldies on our list: Bridge Race , Going Balls , Race Master 3D – Car Racing and Car Games 3D: Car Racing. Comparing total downloads of Q2 2023 to Q1 2023, we see a decrease of about 5%.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

QQ Speed An arcade racer implementing TCG mechanics The first game on our list is QQ Speed , an arcade racing game with a manga-inspired art style that’s been very successful in the Chinese market. These mechanics are unconventional for a racing game but aren’t surprising.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Although it was released around the beginning of October 2022 on both iOS and Android, Tile Busters stayed under the radar until March 2023. Many other games took a page out of the Royal Match Live Ops playbook and began implementing their versions of in-game events to offer more content to their players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

Although I had been watching the space for about a year by then, my interest in blockchain games peaked in the beginning of 2022 right after the latest (doubtfully the last) crypto bull run like most people. a16z saying “It’s still early for crypto” in 2022. What about the App Store and Play Store? They were saying the same in 2018.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

With over 90% of the top-grossing 100 iOS mobile games using seasonal events to boost their revenues, national holidays have become an essential part of LiveOps with players expecting an influx of new content as we approach the holiday seasons. Zombie Frontier 3’s Christmas content Event-related offers (e.g.,

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Likelihood of the prediction: 62% #3 Paid UA Becomes a Break-Even Game Advertising is a commodity and in a race to the bottom. Secondly, these gigantic streaming platforms are engaged in ruthless cutthroat competition for subscribers and content. But our prediction is the meme dog that keeps saying, 'This is fine…'.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

Indeed that’s the expectation for almost any game, that the majority of players can participate and experience most of the content (at least in theory). One is the average ARPU LTV for mobile F2P is close - $87 in 2022 ( Statista ). Another is that an individual microtransaction can go all the way down to $0.29. You’ve found one.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first question around non-PVP content (single player campaign, Zombies) was resourcing: non-PVP content required the most development heads and was the least retentive in the long term, since players tended to not return after completing it.

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Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

I gave an Old World postmortem at GDC 2022, which is available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. This change aims to address various popping issues, race conditions, and overall poor resampling behavior.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The console games sector grew in 2023, after a couple of decline years, due to the elimination of two roadblocks: Eliminated Roadblock #1 Major game delays in 2021 and 2022 The growing complexity and scope of game development already slowed down development and the pandemic disrupted development schedules even further. year-on-year increase.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. Clash Royale’s gacha driven collection economy with a fairly limited amount of content has been evidently too shallow for a battle pass leading to long-lasting impacts to a game’s revenue stream.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

We look into the interesting world of creator royalties and whether games, especially those in the blockchain space, will join the race to the bottom. So, I think it’s safe to assume that games will not join this race to the bottom and will try to stay afloat through free mints and the creator royalties accrued from the secondary market.

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