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

JANUARY 13, 2021

Visit Facebook Gaming where you’ll find an incredible amount of insightful, actionable, and relevant information along with tips, tools, and solutions to help you grow your business. Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). They can see what creatives work.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

State of the mobile game industry Eric Kress, Gossamer Consulting Deconstructor of Fun’s “chief outrage officer” Eric Kress was up first to offer what he called a “pragmatic view of what’s going on in the market.” He stressed that games should hold true to the brand’s values, citing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes as a perfect product-market fit.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This blog post is brought to you by ironSource - a growth platform that turns amazing studios into amazing businesses. So we suggest that you head on to ironsrc.com and check the platform for yourself! ? Thinking of your ‘ Why ’ when working in games may seem like a trivial task. A team is a constant balance to maintain.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Visit Facebook Gaming where you’ll find an incredible amount of insightful, actionable, and relevant information along with tips, tools, and solutions to help you grow your business. Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Visit Facebook Gaming where you’ll find an incredible amount of insightful, actionable and relevant information along with tips, tools and solutions to help you grow your business. Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). source: Liquid & Grit.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Merge sub-genre has seen massive growth driven initially by Zynga’s (Gram’s) Merge Dragons and Merge Magic and now fast-followed by numerous competitors to a point of near saturation (downloads up, revenues down) data: Sensor Tower. data: Sensor Tower. Above you can see the four top Merge titles. Zynga owned nearly the whole pie.

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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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Keith Burgun

JUNE 20, 2022

I mean, part of why I can’t believe that is that for almost a full year after the launch, I was furiously updating the game: two new factions, a new game mode (arguably two), a map editor, tons and tons of balance changes, polishing, bugfixes, you name it. Not to mention porting the game to iOS, Android, Switch, and XBox.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

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. Only a few balancing issues in some systems or features could be detected.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

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. Passes can generate different player experiences, follow a different balance, and emphasize different components depending on the genre and audience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Visit Facebook Gaming where you’ll find an incredible amount of insightful, actionable, and relevant information along with tips, tools, and solutions to help you grow your business. Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Legends of Runeterra.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

The game is built around a nostalgic strategy game franchise and it offers a novel gameplay combined with familiar metagame. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Supercell’s previous entry, Spooky Pop, had a lot of design mistakes that prevented it from competing with the Saga model. It has a solid core game design, and a meta design that builds upon the successes we’ve seen in the market. And to be fair, we'd recommend the same for Playrix's latest game, Wildscapes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Key issues covered in this panel discussion include: Biggest mistakes to avoid Creatively led vs. data led companies… and also vs. technology led? Impact of data in games Hiring for cultural fit Initial focus post funding Why you need to panic! This one, I’ve watched or listened to 5 times now. Gigi Levy Weiss That is so true.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Lost Ark outshines other MMO games because each element mentioned above is polished to the next level. Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Though, all of these foibles could be found in other games as well. Let’s use the Witch class as an example.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

In Fantasy Strike, you just click on anyone in your in-game friends list to challenge them. You don’t have to know or care which platform they are on, either (unless it happens to be a Switch vs PS4 thing, because Sony prohibits us from allowing those matches). That HAS been done in a few fighting games before, but not many.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2019

This deconstruct is written by Eva Grillova (Game Designer at Smirk 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 App Annie. is usually not the best way to do it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

First week after global launch: - Call of Duty Mobile (October 1-7, 2019): 70M downloads - PUBG MOBILE (March 18-24, 2018): 26M downloads - Fortnite (iOS only, March 15-21, 2018): 7M downloads *Worldwide data excludes China android. TiMi’s first major project was a title that their parent company, Tencent, had asked Riot Games to create.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

.” In a recent article by The Verge, OpenAI, the company behind DALL-E, announced a new policy that requires artists to grant permission for their work to be used as training data for AI models. AI in Art: Balancing Creativity and Ethics In the realm of digital art, AI technology is stirring up a mix of excitement and controversy.

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