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. Cart Crash is an incredibly satisfying game that relies much more on timing than any other mechanic. Spinner Merge by Sunday.GG.

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Game Industry News

JULY 31, 2021

Their leader, Shel-La, explains to Sisko that the Ennis are imprisoned on this nameless moon, fighting an unending war with the Nol-Ennis as part of a punishment for being unable to come to a peace. When Shel-La revives, Kira argues with him about setting defensive perimeters and fighting his war smarter. Immortality is part of that.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I spend most of my waking hours thinking about game mechanics and how they will make players feel. Fighting Power Creep with Scarcity As the Lead Designer on Legendary: Game of Heroes , I invested a lot of time on our first few hundred heroes. Fighting Purchase Regret with Ownership. In my heart, I am a game designer.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. Studio owner and Lead Developer Max Hermann originally developed the idea for the game in the time when he was still a computer science student and active in the RimWorld modding scene.

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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. A brand that is known to avoid excessive monetization mechanics steering always away from pay-to-win systems.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

We never want the player to feel too powerful, playing more of an underdog role, thus our heroes fight back and repel the pirates with water based weaponry and equipment normally used for farming irrigation. 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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Events with different mechanics sometimes complement each other, but at other times they divert players' attention, resulting in reduced activity and monetization. Everyone knows about them, but not all developers pay real attention to them. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics. Try different combos, too.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

A decade of development into a huge project is almost unavoidably going to accumulate some amount of cruft. I must say this has been an exciting time, having the opportunity to revisit everything to iron out as many kinks as possible, in many places adding new build possibilities or even whole new mechanics. Alien Artifacts.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A respectable amount of revenue for most game developers, but far and away from what we come to expect from Supercell, and a significant dip from the momentary highs at the start of the Covid era. It's been reported by the developers that the pass itself contains more free soft currency now than previous passes for free to play players.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

Last month , Finnish game developer and publisher Tower Pop announced a $2.1 But Omega Royale, which began development three years ago, will be a ten-player fight to the death, in which players individually take on waves of enemies, but must also send baddy boosts against human players. Let’s take a look.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The ever-changing nature of the mobile market means that new monetization mechanics are constantly emerging and evolving. One of the most popular monetization mechanics is the subscription-based battle pass , which was introduced via Valve’s DOTA 2 in 2013 but popularized by the worldwide phenomenon, Fortnite.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I'm a nobody on the outside, looking at a giant development monolith and trying to figure out how this game could possibly have ended up where it did. As a result, a lot of the design seems like it was put into the game to defend itself from the work of other developers. Is that new mechanic fun? That fight really stomped me."

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

In this episode of Gamecamole, we will investigate Cookie Run: Kingdom from the South Korean developer Devsister, a card battling RPG mobile game that became a cultural phenomenon in 2021. The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

The gameplay heavily relies on RNG-based mechanics and incentivizes long sessions, resembling an RPG-themed slot machine. However, there are notable areas for improvement such as refining gacha mechanics, optimizing ad placements, and enhancing social features to foster long-term retention and revenue growth.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” User Interface for Friend Matches This is the kind of innovation that isn’t new to the world, but it IS new to fighting games. Has it been done in a fighting game?

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Certain in the realm of fighting games it blows away every other attempt. The Potemkin model on the left is a development shot of what he looks like without any shaders. YRCs The biggest new feature of the fighting system is the YRC, or yellow roman cancel. Why is it called that? I don't know.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

More than once over the years we’ve had discussions in the roguelike development community regarding the idea of “backtracking,” and with good reason: whether or not to allow it has quite a lot of implications! In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!)

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

That means players engage more as a job (often as “scholars” from developing countries who borrow in-game assets from richer “sponsors” or “managers,” who receive a cut of their earnings) than for fun. What’s notable about Sky Mavis is that even though it clearly aims to develop a great game, that’s not its guiding mission.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. no mind control) only 5 powers (+1 PvP only power). Limited regen (e.g.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

This was the date that the social games giant had acquired a relatively unknown Finnish developer, Small Giant. An unprecedented success from a no-name developer. There was also this no-name developer Supercell that launched their first mobile games just few miles away back in 2012. deconstructor of fun newsletter.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

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: 2: Their secret sauce is closing the monetization and marketing loop to help developers supercharge growth. #3: This analysis is also brought to you by ironSource.

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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. Second, quest development is linear on the map.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tower of Fantasy is a new MMORPG developed by Hotta Studio and published by Perfect World and Level Infinite. Similar to the mechanics of Genshin Impact, the player explores the vast open-world by climbing on the walls, swimming in the rivers, gliding in the skies, wiping out enemies, and solving different kinds of puzzles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

So monetization will be increasingly driven by a combination of ads and IAPs Fireside chat: Tel Aviv, Helsinki, and Istanbul – building blocks of a thriving gaming cluster Affan Butt, Aream & Co; Joakim Achren, Elite Game Developers; Chris Petrovic, FunPlus; Elad Kushnir, angel investor.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A few weeks ago, the Clash Quest team announced that they were going to discontinue the development , after a soft launch of 16 months. The usage of spells, tactics, and magic items : Mechanics reminiscent of classic puzzle game boosters, but with more limited uses.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

But everything else just feels like it needed another 6-12 months of development on it. In general, I wish they had entirely cut maybe half the minigames – which I think YLAD would still have the most minigames of any videogame series even if they did that – and apply that development work to other core aspects.

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Sirlin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

It was originally developed as a way to make asynchronous combat interesting enough, but players liked it so much that they said it should be a central feature no matter if the game supported asynchronous play or not. There's a delicate balance in Codex between rushing down and teching up.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. 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! Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Need help on your board game?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device. Even better, the team has showcased a holistic focus on the game: Masterfully balanced the gameplay with regular nerfs/buffs, refreshing the meta Designed for both elder and new players, often forgotten by mature games Took risks (e.g.,

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

However, it isn’t all positive: While Call of Duty Mobile has performed exceptionally well from a download and retention standpoint, the game has shown relatively low revenue per install (RPI) compared to its biggest competitor (and fellow Tencent-developed title) PUBG Mobile. So is COD Mobile dead? Can it ever monetize?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

And since there are two to three missile platforms to fight for on a map, it often leads idle areas appearing on the map. Grinding Pace of Combat The mechanics underlying the missile launch remove the potential for great all-out attack moments that could have been one of the key selling points of the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

A well balanced revenue market share split across the East and West. This deconstruct focusses on what we can learn from Archero’s highly successful marketing and product journey, while looking deeper into a hugely unrealised revenue opportunity that lies ahead - for both Archero and other developers alike.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

With progressively deep content wrapped into a single slot machine, casual art style, a more substantial meta, strong social features, hyperactive live operations and great UX/production value, Israeli developer Moon Active has pretty much flipped the traditional Slots games design model on its head. Attacks and Raids - PvP Gameplay.

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