iXie gaming

APRIL 24, 2023

We will cover everything from the unique advantages of creating games for the metaverse, things you need to know about metaverse gaming platforms , to the challenges that game developers must navigate to succeed in this emerging frontier. Regulatory Compliance: This poses a serious obstacle to the creation of Metaverse games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

Although the Tactile team has several titles under their portfolio, the well-known swapping mechanic is not very common among their games. Especially with their two most recent titles Lily’s Garden and Penny & Flo , Tactile has been a stronghold for story-driven puzzle games with the collapse mechanic.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. relied on data to figure out what they wanted this game to be. The core gameplay follows a ‘build and battle mechanic’.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

With over 190+ million users, Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform. AWS provides tools such as AWS EC2 Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to automate horizontal scaling and distribute traffic across multiple resources. Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

When recreating Among Us for VR platforms, Schell Games only made two major changes to the original game. “We That’s interesting and new gameplay for Among Us” There were plenty more features and mechanics the team considered adding. If you’re adapting an existing game, what changes do you make to the original version?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 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. Mediation platforms have access to a large scale of marketability data across many publishers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

For a quick and general introduction of the game, it’s a player vs player only CCG game, which limits your cards to only 10 per deck, each game is less than 4 minutes, and it uses a very simple poker-like betting mechanic to keep things interesting. However, Marvel Snap has simplified this mechanic to make it even more accessible.

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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. Becoming the first mover is not something you can replicate on the existing platforms in 2020. That’s how confident they (and we) are in their platform.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

With Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its backend, the Metalhead team accelerate and optimized its development and deployment of “SMB 4,” ultimately launching the game simultaneously on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Steam, with global support for cross-platform play.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 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. and Michail Katkoff for edits and data. All revenue numbers show net revenues.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 18, 2024

Games24x7 is India’s most valuable multi-game platform. Games24x7 have established themselves as a leading platform for skill-based games. It accounts for more than 60% of their daily revenue in their fantasy cricket platform operations. Games24x7 uses push notifications to reach over 80% of their active user base.

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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

MARCH 14, 2023

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”. Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix.

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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! ? But games are a powerful platform that can convey emotions, learning and meaning. A team is a constant balance to maintain.

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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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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This blog was co-authored by Qamar Ali Shaikh, AVP – Infrastructure & Platform Engineering, Dream11 and Arvind Sharma, Engineering Manager – Developer Platform , Dream11. These similarities suggest an opportunity to build reusable platform components. This is available for different platforms like Android, iOS, and Web.

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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. For most players (including payers) the Pass is primarily retention and an engagement mechanism. Some examples are: Faster Progression.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

The match 3 success trifecta generally consists of: a fun core match mechanic a good metagame with a clean sense of progression a new feature or innovation that brings something different to the space. Curiously, market data shows that the simpler “Scapes” style games actually perform better than Fishdom. The Core Game Loop.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Therefore, Cookie Run: Kingdom ’s similar but improved art style with a casual Build & Harvest and in-depth RPG gameplay makes it easier to win over adult players, which is supported by the user data.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Optimization, in its many facets, lies at the heart of Spyke's development ethos: “We optimise for speed, for quality, and for data-driven decision-making. The real magic unfolded when they blended these strengths and combined different game mechanics, giving birth to casual yet highly social games. That is my number one priority”.

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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. The game has already a complex and engaging set of game mechanics through the ever evolving production puzzle of crafting items. exclusive and then on Facebook canvas.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

Most of the changes have been related to progression and side mechanics (new upgrade systems, clans…), with just one being clearly impactful on gameplay (Gizmos). Ultimately, it seems that the strategy has been around completing the game with side mechanics and not touching the core. But have the updates been ambitious enough?

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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. But please keep in mind that Hearthstone is cross-platform title making likely over 80% of its revenue on PC.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

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).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

data from the ever amazing Sensor Tower. 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. data from the unrivalled GameRefinery.

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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. In the later game, raid mechanisms become quite rich.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

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. And from all the data we have seen, the Command & Conquer, nor any other IP, hasn’t proven strong enough to have players overlook those key shortcomings.

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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! We'll also talk about kind of this difference between creative versus data driven companies.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

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). The frame data of the game also matters and Fantasy Strike happens to lend itself well to online play, which isn’t exactly an accident either. But there wasn’t one.

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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. In fact, they prefer a direct port of PC/console mechanics than a more streamlined mobile version.

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MAY 4, 2020

All the data is derived from Sensor Tower’s fantastic data plarform. Clash of Clans has shown unprecedented staying power by staying in the top 10 grossing since 2012 (data: Sensor Tower). This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device. Cover image: Talouselämä. #1

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. and I think this balance tuning is intentional. Very streamlined, much faster, low stakes, and often just setting up the inevitable ensuing gunfight. Limited regen (e.g. No health potion inventory , big change from Dishonored / Prey. Kind of sad.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Unless otherwise specified, all ranking, downloads and revenue data below has been acquired through the wonderful data services of App Annie. A well balanced revenue market share split across the East and West. But, App Annie estimates featuring downloads across platforms only to account for less than 5% of total downloads.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

They boast industry’s largest in-app video ad network, a robust mobile ad mediation platform, and a data-driven user acquisition platform. Early revenue per download data shows that it outperforms other Classic Match-3 titles and is as strong as full Puzzle & Decorate games, suggesting that players like the direction.

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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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