Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

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. But for the vast majority of mobile games, this approach will not work. This way, we can engage the player for longer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019. In fact, Hypercasual games alone made up for ~45% of 2019’s total download volume across all mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

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). Their gold stashes was drained, other players were got rich, and the overall balance was maintained.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In this infinite runner mobile game, players are always given three “missions” which encourage them to play the game in an unusual way (“Have a near miss with a missile” or “Rub your head against the roof for 500 meters”), which is a surprisingly effective way to change the feel of a game that one might play over and over again hundreds of times.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. 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. Surely that would work!

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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. That would be bad.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Long and Winding Road to COD: Mobile’s Launch To tell the story of Call of Duty Mobile, you have to start all the way back in 2008. At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. Battle Royale mode involving up to 100 players in COD Mobile.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Some people may be familiar with my past work : uncanny CG beefcake sex games that toy with hardcore gamer aesthetics, which only run on laptop / desktop computers. For the longest time, I've wanted to make a gay mobile game, but I was unsure how to get my queer politics past Apple and Google's anti-sexuality censors.

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

We look into the interesting world of creator royalties and whether games, especially those in the blockchain space, will join the race to the bottom. So, it’s more of a question of how you want to balance your creator royalty against the trading volume. Missed a previous newsletter? You can find them all here. ?

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