Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. Shooters are the fifth largest genre on mobile at $2.1B Shooters on mobile are download magnets.

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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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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Nowadays, we can see three common types of platforms: Native(iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Harmony, etc), Mini Games(Wechat MiniGames, Tiktok Mini Games), and H5(PC Browsers, Mobile Browsers, Facebook Instant Games, Poki Games, etc). Thanks to the Cocos Cyberpunk team, I can finally share this content.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Not only does it help your team manage the workload, but it means you can roll out more content to keep your players engaged later. And unless you have your VR headset hooked up to a beefy computer, you’re working with a mobile CPU to manage all that. It’s better to start small and then layer in more post-launch.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 24, 2020

Always be ready to change when the data says that’s the right thing to do. First things first, though, think about the data you want to gather on your landing page. Everything else is extra, so you have to strike this subtle balance. Once you get all your content items in the right locations, click on each one on the left.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In addition, if the game is not evolving or developing quickly enough for players, live operations to keep up with content demands could require further investments. Ludovic is an International Growth Consultant at Google who advises mobile gaming clients on their international expansion strategies.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

What's surprising is that the game is also accessible on PC, even though it was designed primarily for mobile. As certain decks become dominant, players can quickly create counter decks to keep the game balanced and interesting. I feel like Marvel Snap has found a really good balance with this unique system.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This post is written by Nebojsa “Nebo” Radovic , who’s an experienced mobile marketing professional who currently heading the user acquisition for N3TWORK’s Scale Platform. The key to success is balancing IPM and LTV, and making sure that the gains on the IPM side are higher than the losses on the LTV side of the equation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. The new move disrupted this balance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

We need to release regular updates: more content, more events, faster, and higher quality. Reusing content The next thing on our list is reusing and looping content. So, here are our tips on how to reuse and loop your content the right way: 1. Plan content looping during the feature design phase.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

The game can be described as Supercell’s take on Settlers for mobile. This conviction is not until yet backed by KPIs (data from Sensor Tower). This game is likely straightforward to balance, but it’s not very creative for the players to play. We’d be equally terrified to balance a more player-friendly game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

Both of the authors are true fans of Command & Conquer franchise and both of the authors understand all to well how hard it is to ship a hit mobile game. content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. This has to be a major disappointment to EA Mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Passes can generate different player experiences, follow a different balance, and emphasize different components depending on the genre and audience. It’s also important to understand that Passes are not a straightforward feature to balance that can be applied to any game without risks.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Guest post by Kenneth Landen , Director of Product at Hit Factor Executive Summary In the ever-evolving landscape of mobile gaming, Supercell's Brawl Stars has undergone a remarkable resurgence, transforming challenges into triumphs. The Brawl pass is also a key component to quest content depth and goal setting in the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. Role-Playing Games on Mobile The RPG market is a high risk, high reward genre walled by a robust entry barrier.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world. By embracing and encouraging gamers’ motivation to collect and to cultivate, the card battling genre has become a proven formula for mobile companies and studios to maximize their revenue.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie. Hearthstone - the leader of the category since it’s 2014 launch - fell 32% on mobile, struggling to retain players with the same old ranked ladder and struggling to monetize players with new game modes. Duel Links.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This guest post is written by Gordon Rowe , an experienced product leader that has spent 10 years building and operating free to play games on mobile, web, and consoles. data: Sensor Tower. Keys to success Key #1: Good old fashioned game balance EverMerge is a master-class in balancing. Gordon Rowe.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Mobile developers look up their fake AppStore accounts and download with excitement wondering what the new game could be. Curiously, market data shows that the simpler “Scapes” style games actually perform better than Fishdom. The market data suggests that they adopted an outdated model rather than create a new one.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Unreal Engine’s Pixel Streaming allows the running of Unreal Engine applications on a server in the cloud and streaming its rendered frames and audio to browsers and mobile devices using WebRTC. For example, in case of Linux instances, adding sudo shutdown –halt +20 to user data would automatically stop the instances after 20 mins.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Mobile games market predictions in 2022 Michail Katkoff, Savage Game Studios, and Deconstructor of Fun. Understanding players and marketability have also become more important, leading to larger companies increasingly building content fortresses – in which they acquire a user and move them between games in their portfolio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

The main reasons are (1) that the open positions are for systems & liveops design, and multiple artists; and (2) that the game RPD looks flat, which points out to a lack of content and endgame systems. For comparison, that’s a similar seasonal pace as TFT , a more established title with tons of content and higher degree of mastery depth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Township has been on mobile platforms since 2013 and generated around a Billion Dollars in life-time revenues. Data from the best in business, Sensor Tower. Playrix - True Behemoth of Casual Mobile Games Founded in 2004, Playrix entered the industry by making premium Match-3 and Hidden Object games. All revenue is net.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

All the data is derived from Sensor Tower’s fantastic data plarform. Most mobile gaming companies bet on incremental innovation as their gateway to success. Clash of Clans has shown unprecedented staying power by staying in the top 10 grossing since 2012 (data: Sensor Tower). Cover image: Talouselämä. #1

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

There was also this no-name developer Supercell that launched their first mobile games just few miles away back in 2012. data from the ever amazing Sensor Tower. data from the unrivalled GameRefinery. After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Some content, I just record and publish. And most recently Travis founded Carbonated Inc. Welcome, Kristian.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie and analysed by the author(s). Kudos to their unrivalled data support! Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2:

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The mobile hit Empires and Puzzles (E&P) by Small Giant Games (acquired by Zynga) has made over $600M in net-revenues while racking up around 60 million installs. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile. Audience Because Puzzle Breakers is still in soft-launch, we don’t have enough data to make the assumptions about their audience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

This post is sponsored by Lab Cave , a Mobile Growth Company that provides App Store Optimization and Mediation services for mobile Apps and Games. This deconstruct is written by Eva Grillova (Game Designer at Smirk Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Early this year the Turkish mobile startup Dream Games has raised $50 million in new funding ($57.5M Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. total funding), despite having only soft-launched its first game, Royal Match. It made $5.1

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

This one is written by Om Tandon (Director of User Experience, DIGIT Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). Unless otherwise specified, all ranking, downloads and revenue data below has been acquired through the wonderful data services of Sensor Tower. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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