Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Simple controls, artwork, and game design make it easy for any developer to pick up. This time, we’ll look at the top games that use storytelling as a core mechanic and show you that you don’t need sparkling design and intense gameplay to create a hit. BitLife has developed quite a bit over the last couple of years.

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Horror Games Mobile Mobile 109

Game Daily

AUGUST 29, 2023

Venba , developed and published by Visai Games, was already profitable when the game launched on the last day of July, largely thanks to an Xbox Game Pass deal with Microsoft. Through a series of cookery puzzles and dialog choices, players are immersed in Tamil culture, and the family’s emotive saga.

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

Mobile Gaming 98

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Mechanics 98

iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Thorough testing is a crucial part of the game development process to achieve this level of excellence. This enables them to highlight issues and document them for developers to resolve. Also, they provide crucial feedback on game balance, user interface (UI), and gameplay. But what does Nintendo game testing entail?

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Let’s explore the Top 10 Mobile Game Development without wasting your precious time! Uncharted – Legacy of Thieves Collection Uncharted – Legacy of Thieves Collection, developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, brings the beloved Uncharted series to Android devices.

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Graphics Racing Entertainment Games 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Written by Michail Katkoff , games executive and founder of Deconstructor of Fun, and Niek Tuerlings , Senior Game Designer and author of popular game development blog Ludocious.com. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming.

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Mechanics Puzzle Advertising Studios 52

Brand Game Development

JULY 1, 2019

Once you craft the basic concepts of your game and find the right mechanics to express them , you have to set rules. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This idea developed into what ultimately became the backbone for scoring in Tasty Humans. So how do you do it?

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

None of these systems were any fun and weren’t intended to be so; they were mechanics put in place to keep the players from ruining the game for themselves by founding too many cities just because it was simply the most effective strategy. I was well aware that the city sites of Old World would be a controversial feature.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But we know that if you get the player engaged or focused on something in the world – a puzzle or environmental storytelling -then they’re very susceptible to being suddenly scared. It’s about finding a balance, and definitely not repeating ourselves. We try to vary.

Horror 52

Horror Art Build Cinematics 52

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. Playrix released Puzzle Breakers into soft-launch in late 2019. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Tile Mechanics Build 52

Deconstructor of Fun

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. Playing levels awards stars , which are used to earn coins in the Puzzle Pass. The Core Game Loop.

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Puzzle Mechanics Content Data 52

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.

Mechanics 98

Mechanics Content Puzzle Mobile Gaming 98

Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

In other words, villagers are the pacing mechanisms in the game. Nevertheless, Everdale is not a placement puzzle like a typical city-building game. The valley has several community buildings that players can cooperatively invest resources in to develop. We’d be equally terrified to balance a more player-friendly game.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The discussion emphasizes balancing randomness to maintain fairness and enhance player satisfaction, sometimes even tweaking probabilities in the player’s favor to foster a sense of achievement and prevent frustration. The mechanics that the player has are essential for how they play it and what they get to experience it.

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Sprite Mechanics Game Design Game Designer 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the last and, the most important piece of the “scaling” puzzle focusing on the nothing less than the game that is being promoted and the teams that are promoting it. The key to success is balancing IPM and LTV, and making sure that the gains on the IPM side are higher than the losses on the LTV side of the equation.

Games 52

Games Mobile Mobile Art 52

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I joined Voodoo in Berlin with the goal to open a new studio that would develop new types of games (i.e. 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. But now I have a team of specialists making puzzles.

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Studios Build Puzzle Concepts 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

This was the date that the social games giant had acquired a relatively unknown Finnish developer, Small Giant. 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. Wooga GmbH. Wooga GmbH.

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Puzzle Build Feature Balance 52

Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Playrix is one of the powerhouses in the puzzle genre thanks to Gardenscapes and Homescapes’ current success. Their performance marketing teams are clearly involved in the product development process and seem to even sometimes give direction based on the market trends to maximize the acquisition of new players. product management.

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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. Clash Quest is Supercell’s most recent attempt at disrupting the puzzle category through titles like Smash Land , Spooky Pop, and Hay Day Pop , each of them trying to achieve success from different angles.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mechanics Content Dev 52

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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Baking Simulation Build Animation 52

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Originally, they were developing Royal Riches, a social casino game, investing heavily in optimisation techniques like segmentation, personalisation, dynamic pricing, and live ops tailored for the casino title. 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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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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Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Co-op 82

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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Content Mechanics Balance Mobile 52

Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

It somehow even won a Grammy award, for Baby Yetu, by my college roommate Christopher Tin, which was definitely not even on the radar when we developed the game. So, before I explain why I made Old World, let’s talk a little about what the game is and how it was developed. Frankly, it’s all downhill from here.

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Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 98

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

A cold calculating trader would only care about the outcome, but human beings seem to love watching the outcome unfold - a puzzling topic for economists. For example, a balance patch to Skyweavers that changes the power (and thus price) of different cards will shake up the market considerably. The reveal itself can be engrossing.

Games 52

Games Point and Click Asset Balance 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Running through the market by genre, Kress noted that King has done quite well, but other genres had suffered badly, with strategy, RPG, match puzzle, and casino games all down double digits. Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix.

Games 59

Games Cross platform Mobile Mobile 59

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.,

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mobile Mobile Mobile Gaming 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Then it’s largely up to game’s economy whether it can have a meaningful deep gatcha or a steady pipeline of content offered through a must-have battle pass mechanic. A brand that is known to avoid excessive monetization mechanics steering always away from pay-to-win systems. Now employ this same mechanic in TFT.

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Fighting Games Mechanics Balance 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games.

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Mobile Mobile Cross platform Puzzle 52

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? These are perfectly balanced.

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Fighting Games Balance Writing 90

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

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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Mobile Mobile Balance Mobile Gaming 52

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

JANUARY 17, 2022

One of the main problems in Clash Mini is the strong similarity with Clash Royale , the other Supercell auto battler whose gameplay and unit mechanics are very similar. This is an existential threat to Clash Mini since the lack of innovation in-unit mechanics was among the top reasons why Rush Wars failed to captivate players.

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Content Mechanics Point and Click Mobile 52

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. The sun shines brightly on the canopy of the forest, and the trees use this wonderful energy to grow and develop their beautiful foliage. Need help on your board game?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

none of Dishonored's morality system and I think this is good, the "stealth puzzle = humane cage free assassination" philosophy has aged poorly imo 69% less stealth. NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e.

Fighting 52

Fighting NPC Puzzle AI 52

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In turn that means developing a new title to break into this category is harder: you need an IP and longer development times to produce a game that can hope to become a contender. Gameplay follows fire and forget mechanism , where all decisions regarding the team (training, tactics etc.)

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