Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

It is the no-cost matching service that gets your game in front of qualified publishers and investors in one simple process. Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

One of the hallmarks of good board game design is being able to create hard choices. Sounds easy enough to do, but it’s actually really tough from the designer’s perspective! Let’s talk about how you can create hard choices in your board game. The design process really started with the puzzle.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

Perfect board game pacing is one of the most underrated aspects of board game design. Somewhere between overwhelm and ennui, there lies a middle ground where a game is perfectly paced. A great board game feels challenging and interesting throughout. At the beginning of the game, a player’s objective is simple.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

A cold calculating trader would only care about the outcome, but human beings seem to love watching the outcome unfold - a puzzling topic for economists. Sports betting is probably the best example, where the outcome of a wager is a live sporting competition; the bettor’s stake makes them all the more invested to watch the game.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I wrote a game called Exile 3: Ruined World with over 100 spells. But What About Different Builds? The ideal for a system like this is to encourage players to have and switch between different builds and strategies. Side note: There is a new game called Brotato, one of those single-stick shooters that are hot now.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This post is written by Sophie Vo who’s building a kick-ass game team at Voodoo Berlin. I am Sophie, a creative Game Lead working at Voodoo. With each experience, I perfected my approach to building highly creative and effective teams. Building teams is like cooking to me, my other passion.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

This deconstruct is written by Eva Grillova (Game Designer at Smirk Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). Further, it has been relatively successful in both the East and the West - something that not too many games are easily able to achieve. the second piece of the puzzle.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I considered a lot of options here, going as far as thinking of building a new generator from scratch (one that would make encounters much easier to implement), but I liked the established and consistent core theme of existing Garrisons and didn’t want to mess with that.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

I've been trying to get good at game design for almost 30 years. The rule: Whenever an enemy attacks you, no matter what your character build, you have a reasonable chance of being able to evade the attack. In other words, yes, the game will troll you. The game will trick you and hide things and be confusing and unfair.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

But they’ve long since stopped being exclusive to mid-core, cosmetic-driven games and nowadays are present in a constantly growing amount of genres and games. The fact that Battle Passes have been successful on audiences so alien to each other like MOBAs and Match-3 Puzzle fans shows how versatile its design can be.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge. It would feel terrible.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team. We want to build ambitious games players may not expect from Supercell. This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art. And past experience in entrepreneurship.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Special thanks for the Hybridcasual design insights to Abhimanyu Kumar , founder of Naavik consulting. In theory, the IDFV allows a publisher to build user profiles.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

On looking deeper, it was found that this was driven by two things - 30-35% of the growth was driven by increased IAP integration in various hypercasual mini-genres, most notably Puzzle. The remaining was driven by two titles - “ Crane Game Toreba ” and “ Clawee ” - which together raked in ~$45M over 2019.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Deep games require knowledge, explanation, creativity, and cleverness. Such a model could also inform our discussions about game design, suggesting directions for design exploration and expanding our palette of analytical tools and techniques. Modeling depth may help us better understand how to think about these things.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The tutorial phase doesn't adequately prepare players for the intricacies of the game, leading to confusion and potential player churn. Addressing the initial learning curve, introducing enticing mid-game offers, and refining unlocking progression are essential for the game’s long-term success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The tutorial phase doesn't adequately prepare players for the intricacies of the game, leading to confusion and potential player churn. Addressing the initial learning curve, introducing enticing mid-game offers, and refining unlocking progression are essential for the games long-term success.

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