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. FRUSTRATION: These blog posts can also annoy game executives and senior leaders. We want to make the best new games, period.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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. We want to build ambitious games players may not expect from Supercell. It’s two teams , actually.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

The rules of the game are not established yet, and, as a game developer, you are expected to create them. On the other hand, it leads to a quite unstable business where you might have to pivot after a year of development. However, the hard part lies in experimenting with everything except the game development itself.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , Executive producer at N3TWORK, who is building his first blockchain game. Ethan is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Platform. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. Again, which game would you choose? This post is sponsored by Xsolla.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

In the mobile free to play area, additional capital also means the ability to fund long payback games at scale (e.g., Budgets for AAA console games could be more like $20M-$50M (notwithstanding Activision’s $200M+ budgets for Call of Duty although also including marketing and distribution). Firebase), etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. The space is now awash with a variety of publishers, including the aforementioned SayGames, Kwalee and Homa, as well as Rollic (also acquired by Zynga), Popcore and Good Job Games.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Depending on these, you can make a budget-friendly game or the next GTA. Keep reading this blog to understand how mobile game development costs differ from AAA games. Will it be a 2D puzzle or an AAA game like Grand Theft Auto V? Believe us, it’s worth every minute of your time.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. 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. The money you save on platform fees will go directly into further improving and growing your games.

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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. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. On one hand, it makes sense that Netflix would want to be the Netflix of gaming. What directions could Netflix take? Why pay $17.99? Revenue Play?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We can say with more confidence than ever that gaming is at the heart of media and entertainment. For the past decade, we’ve looked at mobile gaming as the driver of gaming growth, both in terms of new players and revenue generated. Games are notoriously hard and expensive to make. year-on-year increase.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Nevertheless, now that the hype faded out and people are more focused on actually making games, the trade-off between decentralization and mass market reach should sway developers to forget about buzzwords. It will help big platforms like the App Store to meet on a common ground.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

This royalty was as high as 20% depending on the platform and the conditions of the market. They eliminated the creator royalties and decreased their platform royalty (the cut they take as the marketplace) to as low as 0.5%. Of course, how much you want to take as royalty depends on the asset type and community.

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