Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 12, 2020

They often take existing categories and reinvent them with a specific eye towards simplification. They were known for copying games and competing on scale and out-marketing competitors. This is where the market seems to be favoring Zynga. Supercell focuses on innovation. So which company is more valuable?

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

By 2021, the Chess category on Twitch well and truly erupted, securing a peak concurrent viewership record of 370,111. Without that additional audience power, a chess game may struggle to make the same impact as some of the hits covered in this blog.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 15, 2017

One day, I decided to group the complaints into different categories. On some level, being disappointed by games that are currently in the market is a good fuel for inspiration. Other developers find games disappointing because they’ve realized many of the trade-offs that go with bringing a game to the market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

in market capitalization, Amazon is the most valuable company in the world. NFX defines four “ defensibilities ”: the ability to maintain long-term positions of market leadership. Further, the more capital a game company has the more they can spend on marketing to achieve “launch velocity” for marketing campaigns.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

This is done through in-depth research, insights and case studies as well as innovative marketing solutions and education materials. Data from China, Korea and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. Casual games in the Western markets (China, Korea and Japan excluded) grew to nearly $10B.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 9, 2021

There is technically a third category serving special purposes, one that after many years is once again growing as part of Beta 11. This other category is what I call “maps between maps,” essentially much smaller maps forming optional bridges between the regular maps. Hacking a Hauler to find the nearest DSF.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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Filmustage

MARCH 11, 2022

Moreover we're still developing our product no matter what, so be sure to try out the new custom category feature. But the fact is that the zombie film genre is so popular that it has seen both a wave of incredible success and a wave of decline brought on by a glut of such films on the market. So take your pick and leave your feedback.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 5, 2020

Welcome back to the riveting, the joy-inducing, the awe-inspiring Kristala dev blog! Next, Shelly turned her attention to our Nisargan market stands and swamp houses. Well, friends.that'll do it for Issue #18 of the Kristala game dev blog. in their inventory. Sign Reclaim the Block's petition to support their mission.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Because each step has its nuances, if one game became successful in a month, other developers could empty their whole bank account, and still, there’s no guarantee the target market will appreciate it. If now you believe quality and marketing are the only factors that make a game top-scorer, well, again, it’s a myth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This blog post is brought to you by ironSource - a growth platform that turns amazing studios into amazing businesses. Puzzles are one of the biggest market categories and it continues to grow each year. Building a team based on market predictions - the ‘What’ - is a foolish risk. Do you have a concept in mind?”

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 26, 2018

There are tons of reasons to get your board game reviewed, but they mostly coalesce into these two categories: proving you’re good and getting seen. In fact, in many ways, getting featured on blogs and podcasts is easier than convincing people to review your board game. With blogs and podcasts, it’s a little different.

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Filmustage

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

That's why we decided to collect all the necessary information about it in one blog, let's go! Script Breakdown Step 2: Find Production Elements The core of your script breakdown are the constituent elements, which should be carefully separated according to category. Vehicles: this category includes vehicles that appear on the screen.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

. #2: Their secret sauce is closing the monetization and marketing loop to help developers supercharge growth. #3: 3: They have an awesome Medium blog and podcast called LevelUp. First, a Sneak Peak into the Casual Market As you’ve noticed from the previous prediction post , we actively refer to the categories, genres and sub-genres.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

In this past year, I’ve been using Facebook’s advertising system to increase the visibility of blog posts and to drive people to the Highways & Byways Kickstarter mailer. This is incredibly valuable information for marketers. You’ll be given a bunch of options for “What’s your marketing objective?”

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This analysis is written by UX Reviewer’s Om Tandon and product guy and blog writer Alexandre Macmillan To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun newsletter. As you’ve noticed from the previous prediction post, we actively refer to the categories, genres and sub-genres.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

Editor’s note: This blog post was originally published in February 2021. We’ve updated the blog post with new seasonal event implementation examples and best practices for introducing seasonal events into your mobile game. The updates are usually rolled out a couple of weeks in advance of the specific dates.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 10, 2017

We’re a board game review blog. For a blog I expected to be read by a handful of academics a couple of times MAYBE, it’s been surprisingly successful. It’s a massive market, and right now it’s not being well served. Photo taken by Jón Sigurðsson and posted to Flickr under the CC BY 2.0 license ( Source ).

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AWS Games

APRIL 4, 2023

This blog highlights the AWS for Games customer sessions, developer events, and product launches announced around GDC 2023. Customer Sessions AWS for Games customers had had a big presence at GDC this year, including nominations across multiple Game Developer Choice Award categories and breakout sessions.

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AWS Games

MAY 25, 2023

Introduction Document database is one of the fastest growing categories of nonrelational database that makes it easier for game developers to store and query data as JSON-like documents. Amazon DocumentDB launches, blogs, and videos Find the latest Amazon DocumentDB launches, blogs, and webinars. Let this workshop be your guide!

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

We will also discuss how the market has evolved in the last 10 years and discuss the implications of this evolution for Supercell. There are only a handful of companies that try to disrupt the market by creating new genres or redefining existing ones. This post is the collaboration of several Deconstructor of Fun members.

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Filmustage

MARCH 18, 2022

Of course, if you've read our recent blog on how to make films in 2022, you probably know the answer. We spoke at a special event, the European Film Market , which is part of Europe's biggest film festival, Berlinale. Hi there, how much do you know about changes in the film industry?

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

While this data can be generated by any producer, from game servers to marketing services to publishing platforms, the most critical producer of data is player data generated by active users of a game on the game client and builds. Disclaimer: The code in this blog is meant for tutorial purposes only and is not production-ready code.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 5, 2022

Here, in this blog, we will be talking about games using NFT to allow player-to-player interaction. According to a market research firm, a study of 1,500 console and PC gamers found that 56% of them are interested in earning non-fungible tokens (NFTs) through gaming. Nfts In Gaming . Source : Interpret .

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Game Refinery

JUNE 23, 2022

In our “Introducing Onboarding Best Practises” blog post series, we have so far taken a look at the best practices of player onboarding in terms of storytelling and retention among the top-grossing iOS games across different genres and markets. In this last part, we will dive into new player monetization.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). you thought our Art and VFX sections for today's blog were chonky, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Although most of the feature progress I share is in the form of animated gifs, there are a handful of static PNGs as well which I’ve compiled into another collage for a visual overview of 2021: Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and Twitter (larger size here ).

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 5, 2018

Then I got Twitter DM from Charlie at Fulfillrite saying they’d like to do a guest post on this blog. Just telling you that ahead of time so you don’t think I’m hiding secret subliminal marketer messages. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. They delivered!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

Only five months after being globally launched in March 2017, E&P entered the top 50 grossing games in its category (RPGs/Strategy) on the App Store. Empires and Puzzles regularly takes the top spot in Puzzle RPG category in the West (when Dokkan is having a post event hangover). Please do check Niek’s blog Ludocious.com.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I think a lot of the time when you end up fundraising, you typically fundraise off the back of an initial product idea or initial, hey, there's an opportunity to make a combine a match-3 and the RPG and the MMO category into that, you know, wild new type of game that. Gigi Levy Weiss It's a hybrid. It's a hybrid game. It's all top right.

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Gamesbrief

MARCH 19, 2021

UK trade body UKIE has put out an infographic capturing the size of the UK games market and pegs it at £7 billion in 2020. billion remains the largest single market, edging out mobile which has £1.5 Physical software still exists, but its only 15% of the market, including pre-owned. Events and Venues is down 97% to £249,000.

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Moonmana

APRIL 24, 2023

already has a few sub-categories which are popular among gamers. There’s a long list of groundbreaking advantages we’ve already covered in this blog. Though still in its early days, gaming web 3.0 You’ve probably heard about them because it’s impossible to ignore the buzz around these game types. Risks of Web3 gaming Web3.0

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