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.

Prototyping 68

Prototyping Games Mobile Mobile 68

Cocos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

GitHub - axmolengine/axmol: Axmol Engine – A Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games. (A release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0) release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0) release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0)

Shaders 40

Shaders Mesh Render Prototyping 40

Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’re talking free game development software , mind-blowing technology, and trends hotter than a dragon’s breath. Think AI that helps you build landscapes, real-time 3D sculpting like magic, and coding made accessible even for total newbies. So, are you ready to unleash your inner game developer? And guess what?

Game Developer 52

Game Developer Game Development Development Cross platform 52

Game Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In particular, the playbook Creative Prototyping and the Creative Success Framework are curated to help strategically test what works for your audience, and to gather a clear understanding of what “good” creative means. Consider the following question when building ads: Do you think about what people look for?

Advertising 52

Advertising Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile 52

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. This decides whether the game is worth pursuing or not.

Game Developer 98

Game Developer Game Development Development Cross platform 98

PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

We couldn’t break the PC version as they share a common data source, which is important for our build process. First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre.

Console 104

Console First person PC Mesh 104

Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is the author of the book Freemium Economics and the founder of Mobile Dev Memo , the ultimate growth blog and podcast. It is tempting for mobile games marketing teams to think of 2021 as being dominated by Apple’s impending new privacy policy for iOS, App Tracking Transparency (ATT). Access all of our previous predictions.

Advertising 52

Advertising Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile 52

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

We believe that, in the labor market for game creators, companies from Japan, Korea, and China are less likely to engage in competition for developers with overseas companies, especially those in the English-speaking countries.” “As mentioned earlier, the oil fields of the hyper-casual game market have been largely exhausted.

Games 104

Games Content Development Media 104

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.

Studios 52

Studios Mobile Mobile Console 52

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).

Mechanics 82

Mechanics Puzzle Mobile Mobile 82

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Summarizing an entire year of mobile gaming while providing predictions for what is going to happen next is a challenge that we at Deconstructor of Fun undertake every year. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. The Macro-Level View As we know, 2020 was a year of unprecedented growth for mobile games.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

My assumption is that the more junior folks would gain from working on-site, both in terms of skill development as well as building their network in the industry. For example, under a hybrid regime, it might make sense to be together for 1-2 full weeks for road mapping, brainstorming, prototyping, or unsticking a team from a tough problem.

Games 98

Games Data Balance Writing 98

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.

Engine 52

Engine Engineering Game Engine Asset 52

Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 1, 2018

But besides a few mobile games to waste some time, I didn't really play anything else. I hear from friends about all the games they played and I wonder "where do you find all the time?" Start working on a game. To be clear, my goal in 2018 is to start working on a game that will eventually ship.

Point and Click 52

Point and Click Writing Internet Prototyping 52

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”.

Games 59

Games Cross platform Mobile Mobile 59

Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The biggest news items of the year are Meta losing $15 billion in trying to build a metaverse and the collapse of FTX , which hopefully but not likely is the last gigantic crypto collapse we see ( Binance is reportertly struggling as well). Also, funding for new Web3 gaming companies will continue due to crypto funds raised by the investors.

Mobile 52

Mobile Mobile Games Mobile Gaming 52

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.

Mobile 52

Mobile Mobile Cross platform Puzzle 52

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!

Games 52

Games Point and Click Engine Engineering 52

Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Hence, themed victory conditions were out for Old World , but we needed something in place, especially since we were playing MP within a few months of early prototyping. A set of varied goals is now standard practice in mobile gaming, and if it can work for a game played with a thumb, it can also work for a 4X game.

AI 40

AI Simulation Mechanics Mobile Gaming 40

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”.

Data 52

Data Advertising Studios Mobile Gaming 52

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.

Simulation 52

Simulation Art AI Internet 52

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. Nobody believed mobile shooters could be big in the west.

Content 52

Content FPS Mobile Mobile 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. Our partner ironSource builds technologies that help game developers take their games to the next level. Signup for the newsletter and apply for our Slack group.

Puzzle 69

Puzzle Mobile Mobile Mechanics 69