Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

They say imitation is a form of flattery, and there’s no shortage of mobile games that share a striking similarity with other popular titles in the PC, console and mobile markets. Why isn’t there a mobile version of Fall Guys? That said, there are arguments for and against releasing a mobile version of Fall Guys.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 25, 2023

A generation of aspiring analysts and experts now have some actual data and verbatim from high-ranking execs to build their models and assessments. My perhaps naive expectation is that Microsoft will have more leverage and a friendlier coopetition with the mobile giants to pull some much-needed oxygen into these ecosystems. Delicious.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. Several of the industry’s top IPs have received high-fidelity ports that have been successful in bringing core franchise players to the mobile format. It was only a matter of time before Call of Duty would find its feet on mobile.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

AWS Compute Optimizer (New) – the new partner metrics feature allows developers to combine data from AWS as well as commonly used partners such as Datadog. This data provides suggestions for right-sizing game server instances on EC2. Learn more. Learn more. This allows game developers to quickly experiment with serverless backends.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

Source: Newzoo While many data and research companies are providing graphs showing modest growth, further analysis proves otherwise. Most AAA simply cannot afford the team sizes of today. The bull case : AI will supercharge indie developers allowing them to challenge large AAA by removing production constraints.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. All in all, Ilkka’s yearly blog is an inspirational and quite sincere vision of the top brass of a major mobile games company.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Secondly, look up profiles on independent data-driven websites. Specialties: – Concept Art, 3D Art, 3D Art, Illustration, Promo Art, 3D Animation, 2D Animation, Mobile Games, Video Games, UI, and Social Networks. AAA Game Art Studio. One such site is clutch. 10 Best Art Outsourcing Companies You Can Count on.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

Economies of Scale Unlike Amazon which owns massive infrastructure, technology, and purchase and store search data, economies of scale for game companies don’t provide as much of a defensive moat to their businesses. In the mobile free to play area, additional capital also means the ability to fund long payback games at scale (e.g.,

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile. Subscribe here!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. In this analysis, data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Components provide data and the means to interact with the whole world. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. We just never thought that the impact would be so quickly visible in the data. For the past years, large AAA publishers have been shifting their strategy to produce Games-as-a-Service (GaaS). The inflation in EU and US is above 3% today.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

Beyond study and instrumentation, there is instinct.” - Annorax* Creating a new F2P mobile game is riskier than it’s ever been. The majority of F2P mobile publishers are prioritizing the improvement of live operations processes for existing products over the creation of new products to generate more reliable revenue and to control costs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. So, setting their sites on a subscription-based offering on mobile does sound like a more approachable business that Netflix would consider. These games could be a console, pc, or mobile. Why pay $17.99?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Key components of a Battle Pass Pricing When it comes to pricing, most mobile Battle Passes range from $5 to $15 in the basic tier, which is fairly cheap but not the regular ultra-low conversion offer price. According to Game Refinery , Call of Duty Mobile is testing a similar feature. Length How long are Battle Passes on mobile?Short

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all data is gathered from the one and only App Annie and analysed by the author(s). This makes RPGs the third largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.4Bn) and Puzzle ($4.5Bn) games. While games like Plarium’s RAID Shadow Legends boast a lineup of AAA quality 3D champions, you can get away with less.

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