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In a Privacy-Centric World, Creative is More Important Than Ever

Deconstructor of Fun

With privacy becoming more important to mobile players and the prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) in app advertising inventories, the quality of your creatives has never been more important to the success of your games. In most app advertising inventories, you do not have many levers to pull.

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Empires & Puzzles - From a Failing Company to a $700M Acquisition in a Year

Deconstructor of Fun

The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. Empires and Puzzles regularly takes the top spot in Puzzle RPG category in the West (when Dokkan is having a post event hangover).

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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

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In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market – not just the hybrid-casual genre. In many respects, this change isn’t particularly surprising.

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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

The decline of the whole genre in the Western markets was caused by a decline in two of the most significant sub-genres: Brawlers and Fighting Games. At the same time, cross-platform open-world RPG Genshin Impact continues to break new ground, crossing its $3 Billion in IAP Spend in Q2 2022. Until next week. ?

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Supercell’s Strategic Initiatives that Will Transform the Company

Deconstructor of Fun

Our opinion on why is in line with Ilkka’s words above The lack of successful new game launches by Supercell stems mainly from the fact that all their games after Brawl Stars only offered incremental innovation over products that already existed in mobile , instead of a more disruptive proposal on the platform. Quite the contrary.

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Google x Deconstructor of Fun Istanbul Event: Highlights and Videos

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2022 predictions: Casual games will become more audience-led because of ATT Hypercasual will continue to see more hybrid IAP/ad monetisation and will become even more ‘Android first’ Midcore games will go increasingly cross-platform (particularly on PC). Each different game audience needs a different economy.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

In comparison, Cookie Run: Kingdom is more similar to My Little Pony in terms of art style than the earlier Cookie Run platformer games, demonstrating Devsister evolved their art style to better fit the current preference of the global market. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom. Evolution of Cookie Run.

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