Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. If you’re looking for an Unreal Game Development Company, there are some key factors to consider in order to make an informed choice. Research: Research is important to the game design process.

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iHobo

JUNE 21, 2023

When designing videogames for the social motive, it may seem odd to start by examining interpersonal fears - surely players who are into the social motive are extroverts? Natural extroverts are far more likely to go out somewhere to socialise with people than to stay at home and play games.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Here's the panel description: Title: Creating Touchstones in Emergent Narratives When: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Time: 11:15 - 12:10 Eastern Time Games have a unique ability to establish empathy between a player and a world and characters, but game players don’t always follow the path the narrative lays out for them.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 29, 2024

The Primacy of the T3-MCC Game In 2019, the game Coin Master by Moon Active became one of the top-grossing mobile titles and hasn’t slowed, ascending to the summit of not just the casino charts, but the broad games category. Attacking and raiding are also just tap-tap-tap, but they feel more like an active “real game.”

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Building hyper-casual games is a great way to get into game development. With their short cycles and simple gameplay, crafting a hyper-casual title means you can learn important skills across game design and monetisation, which you’ll need for success in the mobile games industry.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

This is a completely different beast from a shooter.” “ Mordhau at its core has always been about melee combat”, says Jonathan Dunn, Game Designer at Triternion. We couldn’t break the PC version as they share a common data source, which is important for our build process. Completely in control of every movement and strike.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The mobile games market is dominated by a few titles that players return to again and again. Fostering that kind of loyalty is crucial, especially given that only around two percent of a game’s player base can generate up to 95 percent of its in-app purchase revenue. The report is also based on interviews with players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 29, 2020

Unfortunately, the copy+paste mentality of the games industry has failed to fully comprehend the situational context of how and when to implement battle pass successfully. Note: Both games saw ~20% decline in downloads during this period. Clash of Clan’s monetization focuses on resource building and unit training/depletion.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team. As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

They often create highly detailed models for characters and other objects, which can take hours or even days to render into the game world. What do Game Art Studios do? Casual Mobile Art. Game art studios have been around for decades, but the industry has recently seen an explosion of casual mobile games.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The mobile game industry is the most demanding industry for the past few years. Though there are millions and millions of mobile game apps available on the Play/App Store, the game companies and developers are interested in building more and more games. The secret of Success Behind the Game.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

First, I want to be clear that all four of these game engines are incredible. All four offer non-programmers an opportunity to build video games without having to know how to code. First, I want to be clear that all four of these game engines are incredible. Every game engine mentioned in this list is incredibly powerful.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity is considered the best solution for mobile game development. Games can be developed through the tools in the integrated visual scripter called Blueprint. In other words, you can build a game using only blueprints because they are valid pieces of code.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 29, 2024

More and more South-Korean indie game developers take aim at the PC and console market. Set in a New York office building in the 1990’s, the game plays out as a action-filled mini series, including cutscenes that unravel the plot. “To Si-wooks’s deep passion for game development inspired Hee-sang to take a leap of faith.

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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. In my heart, I am a game designer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Similarly, look for a wave of new titles from established companies—both in the casino and in other genres—as they strive to build growth. Signup for the newsletter.

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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

APRIL 25, 2022

It is the no-cost matching service that gets your game in front of qualified publishers and investors in one simple process. Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. Currently in charge of systems design at Trailmix. 2020 was a very good year for mobile games.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The video game industry continued its rapid transformation in 2022. New players were added across every region of the world, studios were launched and acquired, and developers continued to build and deliver groundbreaking game experiences to more than 3 billion global gamers. AWS for Games Solutions. New solutions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This notion is followed by a fallacy that all you need to do is build an amazing team and then just step aside and let them do what they do best. Or they review the assets they’ve created in a graphics editor rather than in the game itself. Or they review them in the game, but not on an actual device.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Special thanks for the Hybridcasual design insights to Abhimanyu Kumar , founder of Naavik consulting. Over 2020, YoY downloads for Hypercasual games went from 7.8B

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 18, 2023

If you liked this analysis, you’ll love: Why Rovio is Such a Juicy Catch #1 What is the rationale and Strategic interest behind Sega Sammy’s desire to acquire Rovio Entertainment Firstly, Rovio is an earnings-generating mobile gaming company with studios in Europe and Canada. The likelihood of the two new games failing is high.

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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

MARCH 28, 2023

Thus we refer here only to games with explicit currencies (gold, crystals, etc) and item economies (like weapons, items, potions). This only applies to game items or assets formally organized in a clear increasing power or utility progression as part of the game’s core design (Diablo / Wow Loot, Animal Crossing rooms & furniture, etc ).

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. The second largest sub-genre is the good and old Build & Battle. Clash of Clans takes nearly 70% of all Build & Battle revenues.

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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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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

How you divide your time between making games and living "real life" ? When I need to compile a Windows or Linux build, I start up a VM. Dividing my life between making games and real life is a struggle. I also had the idea of making adventure games for kids. I floated it by Lucasfilm Games and they weren't interested.

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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

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. Impact of data in games Hiring for cultural fit Initial focus post funding Why you need to panic!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The most notable move being the opening of a Berlin studio that is categorically focussed on “casual” games, with key hires coming in from Blizzard, King, Rovio and the likes. More recently, and while writing this post, Voodoo also announced a new Montreal studio that wants to build games “beyond hypercasual”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. All of the above require serious investments, which increases the risk of building an RPG game for a studio. Small Giant did it with Puzzle and Empires.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Sustainability is key to building long-term retention : It turns the game into a hobby that can be kept for months and years. Meanwhile, a constant flow of short-length passes on a cosmetics-driven game has more risks to saturate the player's desire for customization. Some of those games are cross-played with PC and Console.

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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. And the battles kind of suck. Let’s talk about that.

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