AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, a seismic shift that was certainly felt at the 2024 Game Developer Conference (GDC) held last week in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Check it out , and follow the recap below for a full rundown of AWS for Games activities at GDC 2024.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature. We’ve updated the blog post with new battle pass implementation examples and best practices for introducing the feature into your mobile game.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Torchlight Inifinite is an ARPG (action roleplaying game), and the fourth title in the series made by XD Entertainment. But not only is it the first to make it to mobile, it’s also the first one to be free to play. What we especially love is Rovio decided to make this an affordable premium game, rather than F2P.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

With the annual Game Developer Conference (GDC) just days away, Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games is ramping up to host exciting technology demonstrations and programming focused on evolving industry trends, including generative artificial intelligence (AI).

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Game development isn’t as smooth and glamorous as many newbies imagine. It comes with challenges like tight deadlines, production obstacles, publisher pressures, and long work hours, which are just a glimpse of every developer’s hurdles. Many newbies ask the question, what are the stages of game development ?

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Game Dev Unchained

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In the ever-shifting world of game development, the journey of each individual is a unique blend of challenges, learning, and triumphs. Our discussion offered profound insights into the industry’s current state, the journey of a game developer, and the impact of evolving trends on personal and professional growth.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

Hyper-casual games are simple, easy-to-play games that have become increasingly popular in recent years. With the rise of smartphones and mobile gaming, hyper-casual games have exploded in popularity due to their accessibility and addictiveness.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2024

If your games have compatibility issues, it limits the audience reach, reducing the chances of success in the increasingly competitive gaming market. Low Frame Per Second Frame rate can significantly impact your game’s usability, especially for mobile games. The outcome? Low player engagement.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He worked 5 years on his nostalgic 3D platformer Raccoo Venture , but according to Brazilian solo developer Diego Ras the journey was ‘extremely rewarding’. He started his career in advertising, but the world of video games always held his real interest. Making games was something that seemed very far from reality”, he says.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 18, 2022

Game Genre. Front-end Developer - 2. Back-end Developer - 3. Game Architect - 1. Game Asset Designer - 1. An immersive, fast-paced quiz game that tests the player’s general knowledge about random facts. The app stores today are flooded with competitive mobile games that test the players' motor skills.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Follow Nebo on everything mobile growth > @eniac W hen AppTrackingTransparency was introduced, many predicted the doom and gloom situation and the death of mobile gaming. It's no secret that Match 3 is the most competitive mobile gaming genre. Our products need to be reinvented to fit the new reality.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Ambitious multiverse and Web3 project Avalon’s first trailer dropped yesterday, as well as details of the experienced development team’s plans for the game. So all of the balance that we enforce is maintained.” The game’s open beta test is set for this month.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s what happened to solo developer Simon Taylor (working under the name Plastic Cow Games ) and his game Smash Dungeon. After that, the game never gained any traction and faded away in obscurity. For now it feels like the journey comes to an end for me as a solo developer”, says Taylor. It’s all on you.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Whether you’re a casual gamer looking for some entertainment or a dedicated hardcore game enthusiast, today, we have curated a list of the best high-graphics games for Android just for you. Let’s explore the Top 10 Mobile Game Development without wasting your precious time!

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

It is no secret that game development is a complicated process. Developers often need to make continuous adjustments to align the product in development with its initial vision. These adjustments touch upon various facets such as gameplay, user interface, and overall game design.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

Last month , Finnish game developer and publisher Tower Pop announced a $2.1 million investment for its upcoming Web3 game Omega Royale. How does the tower defense (TD) genre – generally associated with casual, mobile gaming – fit into the Web3 world? It’s like any deck-building game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Gaming expert speakers talked about the hottest topics in the gaming industry from 2022 predictions to rising game categories, from blockchain & NFT gaming to launch strategies. Mobile games market predictions in 2022 Michail Katkoff, Savage Game Studios, and Deconstructor of Fun.

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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

JULY 11, 2023

Don't paint with too broad of a brush for this important topic.” - Anonymous Developer from our survey Three-quarters of people who participated in the survey have been in the games industry for over five years while nearly half of the participants in the survey have more than a decade in the games industry. Likely both.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team.

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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. Rina attributes the success of Tile Busters, their second and most successful game to date, to an experiment gone right.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Cookie Run is has some imporessive traction in the Western markets, which may potentially turn this game into a proper worldwide hit. The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

Moreover, different thematics appeal to different people – mobile games will relaunch the same game with a reskin (ex: change the dragons to fairies ), to attempt to appeal to a broader audience. For a market game designer, revealing information should be an orchestrated event. The same applies to markets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Everyone knows about them, but not all developers pay real attention to them. It's important for the event design not to simply rely on a balance which becomes harder at the end of the event, but instead offer the player a more complex and difficult task based on pre-existing mechanics. Don't forget about calendar holidays.

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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. It’s also important to understand that Passes are not a straightforward feature to balance that can be applied to any game without risks.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , Executive producer at N3TWORK, who is building his first blockchain game. Ethan is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Platform. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. Again, which game would you choose? This post is sponsored by Xsolla.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

Both of the authors are true fans of Command & Conquer franchise and both of the authors understand all to well how hard it is to ship a hit mobile game. No matter how you look at it, Command and Conquer Rivals is a good mobile game and the team behind it should be proud of the game they shipped.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

The rules of the game are not established yet, and, as a game developer, you are expected to create them. On the other hand, it leads to a quite unstable business where you might have to pivot after a year of development. However, the hard part lies in experimenting with everything except the game development itself.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The publisher/developer usually base their launch decision on a hypothesis of the scalability of user acquisition. Mobile gaming market is close to what an economist would call a perfectly competitive market (except for some categories such card and fighting games - looking at you, Herthstone and Contest of Champions).

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2022

As games progress through their lifecycle, it becomes difficult to maintain the same level of acquisition costs they experienced post-launch. In addition, if the game is not evolving or developing quickly enough for players, live operations to keep up with content demands could require further investments.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A 10-year gaming industry veteran, leading game development teams focused on free-to-play titles across mobile and PC. Worked on hit mobile titles such as Sims Freeplay, Need for Speed No Limits, Subway Surfers, and Sims Mobile. Written by Christopher Brousseau.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tower of Fantasy was launched in the global markets in August 2022, luring players to the game with its “Genshin with an MMO experience” headlines. Tower of Fantasy is a new MMORPG developed by Hotta Studio and published by Perfect World and Level Infinite. Tower of Fantasy: co-op PvE game mode Dimensional Trial.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

So, it’s more of a question of how you want to balance your creator royalty against the trading volume. The main goal is to maximize Trading Volume * Creator Royalty , so we might even see different percentages for different asset classes within the same game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

Hoping that your game is going to become a cultural phenomenon is a super long shot and often requires access to a top IP that can be very expensive. This is the main reason why mobile game businesses are extremely dependent on User Acquisition (UA), and mastering UA is crucial in building a highly scaled mobile app business.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Platform. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. If you’re interested in growing your business on mobile and beyond, look no further. I know a thing or two about power creep in game economy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Neither Yu-Gi-Oh nor Hearthstone focus on North America - Hearthstone is disproportionately focused on China, and Yu-Gi-Oh is even more focused on Japan - but it is notable for Western developers that a Japanese game and art style has snuck up on the American audience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Out of all the gaming companies out there, Supercell is one of the few capable of shipping consecutive monster hits. Most mobile gaming companies bet on incremental innovation as their gateway to success. They make marginal improvements to an existing game, hoping to convince enough players to switch to their game.

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