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MAY 20, 2020

Mobile developers look up their fake AppStore accounts and download with excitement wondering what the new game could be. A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. Curiously, market data shows that the simpler “Scapes” style games actually perform better than Fishdom.

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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

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). Nevertheless, Everdale is not a placement puzzle like a typical city-building game. This game is likely straightforward to balance, but it’s not very creative for the players to play.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. There was also this no-name developer Supercell that launched their first mobile games just few miles away back in 2012. Wooga GmbH.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Will you make another puzzle game?”. Some of the puzzle games I’ve worked on. Puzzles are one of the biggest market categories and it continues to grow each year. The puzzle market is at a saturation point where it is hard to compete head-to-head with companies with a solid track record like Playrix, King and Peak Games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Another example is the 'Puzzles' collection mechanics, where the player farms puzzle pieces in hard match-3 levels to assemble pictures. So we decided to loop the puzzles at the same time as adding new ones. But for the vast majority of mobile games, this approach will not work. And I'll tell you why.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the latest episode of the DoF Podcast, Mishka reconnects with Rina Onur Sirinoglu, CEO of Spyke Games, to talk about her exciting new mobile gaming venture, which recently secured a $55 million seed round. Yet, the real game-changer came when they borrowed a fraction of these strategies and applied them to an entirely new puzzle game.

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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

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

JULY 24, 2023

Youtube Listen on Spotify Playrix is the third largest mobile game maker in the world You likely know Playrix from its hit titles Homescapes, Gardenscapes, Fishdom, and Township. In fact, the company is the third largest mobile publisher in the world with only Tencent and Activision/Blizzard/King (soon Microsoft) ahead of them.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Playrix is one of the powerhouses in the puzzle genre thanks to Gardenscapes and Homescapes’ current success. 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. exclusive and then on Facebook canvas. All revenue is net.

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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

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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APRIL 2, 2022

Mobile games market predictions in 2022 Michail Katkoff, Savage Game Studios, and Deconstructor of Fun. Mobile gaming megatrends Eric Seufert, Mobile Dev Memo. Mobile ad spending worldwide is going up and shifting faster than ever from traditional channels like TV, OOO into digital.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie. Realistic sports with an IP has proven to be successful way to conquer and control market share in mobile sports. Only exception being Glu Mobiles MLB Tap Sport 2019, which is a successive version of previous MLB Tap Sports games.

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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. In casual games overall, puzzle games account for just over 50% of all revenue for 2020.

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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). the second piece of the puzzle.

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