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

JANUARY 13, 2021

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. Special thanks for the Hybridcasual design insights to Abhimanyu Kumar , founder of Naavik consulting.

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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

Many game designers will instantly say: "How can we show the player the same thing? Yes, in an ideal world of paid games, this could be true: a unique gaming experience is played only once. But for the vast majority of mobile games, this approach will not work. They're not going to play it again.

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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. Cookie Run: Kingdom is no exception.

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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

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

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: The State of Arcade Games While the Arcade genre only accounts for 7.5% In fact, Arcade games alone make up for ~45% of 2019’s total download volume across all mobile gaming genres.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With the backing of the beloved Warcraft IP and Blizzard's reputation, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to break new ground in the mobile gaming landscape and carve out its own niche among players seeking a fresh take on the genre. Warcraft Rumble is a mobile action-strategy game, similar to Clash Royale, set in the Warcraft universe.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Over the years, Supercell’s portfolio has become slightly more balanced, with other games than the Clashes bringing in a more significant portion of the revenue. Supercell’s portfolio is more balanced and not so heavily reliant on Clash IP, which still brings over 50% of the revenue. Helsinki Here’s a caveat though.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the backing of the beloved Warcraft IP and Blizzard's reputation, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to break new ground in the mobile gaming landscape and carve out its own niche among players seeking a fresh take on the genre. Warcraft Rumble is a mobile action-strategy game, similar to Clash Royale, set in the Warcraft universe.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’m reminded a bit of those mobile games where the first 10 minutes is like this absolutely incredible looking and sounding thing, and then you’re sort of “dropped off” into the same old 2015 gacha clone looking thing. One last thing about the combat: it is very poorly balanced.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Despite being the poster child of live services (read: LEGENDARY - a Master Class in Live Operations ), the game continued to decline losing nearly half of its revenue compared to 2019. The effect of the release highlights the importance of balancing between releasing things quickly and testing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

This deconstruct is written by Eva Grillova (Game Designer at Smirk Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). Further, it has been relatively successful in both the East and the West - something that not too many games are easily able to achieve. Archero’s complete game loop.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

While this wasn’t a direct port of League of Legends, it was a very close replica and enough to give TiMi credit for porting the title to mobile successfully. billion in 2018, making it the highest-earning mobile game of 2018. Honor of Kings established TiMi’s ability to develop commercially successful ports on mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In order to achieve that goal, the game had to overcome two major challenges: it had to be free-to-play and it had to appeal to the Chinese audience. Given the lack of copyright enforcement, all western games were pirated, making premium games a losing proposition.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. And they will soon launch their new mobile shooter called Catalyst's Black.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

This one is written by Om Tandon (Director of User Experience, DIGIT Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). Bizarre as all this may sound, this recipe works and the game can be very engaging and fun to play, even if you are not a social casino fan! To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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