Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Going the extra mile with your game and adding in just a few more features or touches does make a difference. That doesn’t mean you should add features for the sake of it. But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. And your players will notice.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Till date Team Fight Tactics has reached bit over 11M installs. The challenge here is to design features that won’t alienate Riot fans - a sizable and very vocal group. source: Sensor Tower.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

The Brew Barons also features aerial combat. “As We turned once more to Porco Rosso which features a band of mischievous but loveable pirates, so we added them to the game to help introduce some combat.” Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

There are several notable features and innovative things about the game, so I’ll summarize them here. Sometimes it’s pushing forward design in a new way, or usability, or technology, or even in introducing features or ways of doing things from one genre and applying them to another when it hasn’t been done before. This is none of that.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

New content releases would drive intermittent spikes in revenue, that would push revenue up to between $500k and $750k. Many of these changes are centered around the Battlepass, which is a key content and goal driver for players: Battlepass changes Brawl Stars’ Brawl Pass, has seen many iterations over the last year or so.

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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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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

The game features an ultra-simplistic idle gear collection and enhancement loop, where players progress by killing waves of minions and bosses, acquiring gear, and enhancing their character. Killing content progresses the player onto further content which becomes more and more difficult for the player to kill.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Developing a detailed, polished universe like this presumably took a lot of time and effort from the team, but it pays off in the end as they continuously push out more content over time for player engagement. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Although, in these types of games, whenever there is a new content update, there is also a revenue spike, which can be shown in the case of Tower of Fantasy. Tower of Fantasy also includes a chat feature for socialization, where players can communicate with each other where to find the world bosses and ask for their help to slay them.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

This deconstruction will cover: The game’s core loop Why having chosen a basic match-3 mechanic was a safe bet What other games have tried The game’s features and to which kinds of players it caters How time-limited offers and events are run successfully. The Matchers Gonna Match E&P’s core gameplay is carefully designed and balanced.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Go in, loot, fight players and/or AIs, survive and extract’ is the formula pioneered by DayZ , and later honed by Escape From Tarkov , which gets the heart pumping even after thousands of play sessions. To capture the content of the airdrop, it has to be safely delivered to an extraction point.

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I was really unsure any of this would work at all, since internally it’s quite complex and therefore hard to gauge what outcomes are possible and whether they’d really fit into Cogmind, which has a pretty strong focus on design balance. Creating a construct and modifying one are two rather different processes. Construct Creation.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

For Beta 12 I decided to include it on the patron feature voting list, and… it won. The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Breaking into the top of the genre requires often massive development investments, an unrivaled content pipeline, and superb live operations - and often an appealing IP. A smaller studio can still build a very healthy and sustainable business with a very smart approach to content development. Fighting Games.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Being able to backtrack is generally going to be more realistic in the RPG sense--of course your character should be able to go back and pick up that item they left behind, or fight that enemy that scared you away before. In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!)

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

again I've just heard that it's possible for Aleksis to escape if this is a real feature, I guess it would feel really bad if his escape kept ruining the end of a golden loop run the weapon jamming stuff is to make Far Cry 2 nerds happy but it never really comes up COMBAT DESIGN Fast paced modern shooter feel. Loadout is 3 guns.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

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. This has led to a resurgence in the value of IP in the market, as it is now harder to get new users.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. #1 Mobile gaming market is close to what an economist would call a perfectly competitive market (except for some categories such card and fighting games - looking at you, Herthstone and Contest of Champions).

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Additionally, the Puzzle genre is not suitable for brand/content creator marketing, one of the key Supercell marketing and distribution strengths. But the content creator audiences likely weren’t very receptive to Clash Quest , which is not as fun to watch due to the lack of PvP and has way less mastery depth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. It was also launched successfully with a combination of pre-launch hype, featuring from the platforms, support from top influencers and a robust user acquisition campaign. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The game also features some nice little tweaks to the gameplay that differentiate it from its rivals. After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. Tiles deal damage to enemy characters depending on the colors of tiles and enemies (rock-paper-scissors balance).

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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. The studio then switched to developing content for mobile and created a pair of exclusive titles for China’s WeChat social platform in 2013. This analysis is written by Adam Telfer , Om Tandon and Nate Ross.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

But with an increasing number of hypercasual games fighting for the same audience with often very similar visuals, gameplay motivations and marketing tactics, IPMs are bound to suffer and therefore indicating market saturation. Hypercasual IPMs have started to flatten towards the end of 2019. Ad revenues not included.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As you and your fellow monsters toss around the village king, you attract a steady buffet of adventurers who try – poorly – to put up a fight! No downtime, renewed fun in each game and perfect balance regardless of the number of players. You are a fantasy monster trying to sate your insatiable appetite. Carcassonne – $32.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. A well balanced revenue market share split across the East and West. Apple did feature Archero a week later and this is also when PewDiePie launched his influencer video. IM” stands for Influencer Marketing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. Many games feature secondary and even tertiary currencies, but slots players still largely only care about coins. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. This final release now has gay sex, smoochin', and other important new features. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. If you care about spoilers, play it first. It'll take about 30 minutes.

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