Game Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Announcing the deal in a blog post , GameMaker head Russell Kay referenced rival engine Unity’s recent turbulent experience with price changes, that enraged developers and led to the departure of company chief John Riccitiello. The offer is restricted to developers making games for non-commercial purposes on non-console platforms.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 11, 2023

The mobile gaming industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years, and it is only expected to increase in the years to come. The market has exceeded every benchmark through all technological and economic expectations. With significant innovations and advancing technologies, the year 2023 is set to be big for mobile gaming.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 19, 2023

It really depends on what you mean by whether major AAA companies “listen to the audience complaints”. If you mean “those of us on the dev team are made aware of the fan concerns”, then the answer is absolutely yes. [ We get a lot of feedback from a lot of sources, and we pay attention to all of it. This includes changes based on feedback.

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Game Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

In the current Web3 fever , a Pokemon-style browser game with an NFT business model feels like an inevitability. Off the back of a $2 million seed fund, the company launched a series of successful collectible RPGs for mobile, including MiniMonsters, Cat Game, and Dog Game. In other words, they are NFTs. Mino was founded back in 2011.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2016

and Pokemon. It’s become standard practice for board game designers and publishers to raise capital through Kickstarter – meaning everyone from one-person businesses like me to large and well-established publishing companies are competing on the same field. Indeed, Kickstarter has radically changed my life as well.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

Last week Tencent and Pokemon unveiled Pokemon Unite , a jointly-developed cross-platform MOBA for smartphones and Nintendo Switch. These two studios are relentless rivals (think Ash and Gary from Pokemon). This analysis is a part of Deconstructor of Fun’s Digest newsletter.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

You can trade Air Jordans on StockX , Monet paintings on Masterworks , or rare Pokemon cards at TCG Player. In Today’s Email ? Today, we dive into the critical components of game markets needed to make them fun, and applicable in web 3.0 and beyond. ? SAVE THE DATE! Signups liver January 25th! Subscribe here! are growing phenomena.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 6, 2020

This analysis is a part of Deconstructor of Fun’s Digest newsletter. You can sign up to the newsletter at the bottom of this text. Video games have received a tremendous boost from the current shelter-in-place and isolation policies brought upon us by coronavirus. Find out more about this trend in our conversation below. Is this all word of mouth?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

But when you think about the AAA catalogs offered by Xbox Game Pass and Playstation Now, this just seems like a nearly impossible battle to take on for a streaming media company with little game development experience, no matter how flush with cash they are. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. What do we actually know?

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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 29, 2022

Though SensorTower might just be making up all its figures. Based on the ethical level mobile gaming operates on, that wouldn't surprise me. I had a little bit of fun and got really irritated on many occasions, and I made some observations you might find amusing, written below. For a few bucks you could get all sorts of simple really good games.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

If you’re an avid gamer who loves computers, you may be thinking about pursuing a career as a game developer. Game development is a specialized, comparatively small, and lucrative industry. Retail gaming in the United States is estimated to be worth $4.19 billion in 2023. As expected, graduates who work on video games are well rewarded.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

Shorts are analyses and opinion pieces originally published as a part of our weekly newsletter. If you’re not one of the 11,000 subscribers of our newsletter, tap here! Missed a previous newsletter? You can find them all here. ? This week, we jump into what it takes to design great Match 3 games and how we would improve Makeover Match.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This post is written by Nebojsa “Nebo” Radovic , who’s an experienced mobile marketing professional who currently heading the user acquisition for N3TWORK’s Scale Platform. Prior to that he worked in product and performance market at Nordeus and Machine Zone. This puts more emphasis on product and creative than media buying itself. But be careful.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 31, 2024

Social media posts and Reddit threads have been dedicated to comparisons between Game Freak's decades-old characters and those of this month's multi-million selling survival game , with the term 'Pokémon with guns' established as the unofficial tagline for developer Pocketpair's new IP.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

While it has since settled within the top 200, the achievement remains noteworthy, especially when compared to the company’s prior title, Peridot , which, although briefly ranking in the top 200 upon release, quickly fell out of that tier. It’s hard to forget the release of Pokémon GO in 2016.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Pokémon Company has issued a statement saying it would look into infringement of its intellectual property after having received inquiries regarding "another company's game released in January 2024." Read more

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 17, 2019

In many ways, the modern board gaming boom began with Catan. It is a phenomenal game that, when it came out in 1995, revolutionized the way we saw board games. Indeed, even to this day, it holds a pretty impressive 7.2 on Board Game Geek. But board games have been around since Mesopotamia , so let’s talk about the top 10 old board games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Pokémon Company partnered with Yomiuri Land Co. the firm behind the amusement park) and publication The Yomiuri Shimbun to create a new company called PokéPark Kanto, according to The Japan News , the English-speaking branch of the Yomiuri Shimbun. Read more

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AUGUST 22, 2023

The Pokémon Company made $11.6 The consumer product and licensing research firm's annual Top Global Licensors report ranked 84 brands in global retail sales last year, with The Pokémon Company sitting at No.5 billion) in revenue, The Pokémon Company ranked No.2 5 in the Top Ten. billion (£9.1 compared to $8.5

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

Over the last four articles of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game , I’ve talked about a lot of things that are more complicated than you’d think. That includes the unexpected depth of the board game industry as well as the surprising variety of responsibilities which a self-publishing developer must handle.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. All predictions can be found here. Unless otherwise specified, all data is gathered from the one and only App Annie and analysed by the author(s). mid-core 2019. mid-core 2019.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Call of Duty Mobile launched on Android and iOS on October 1st, 2019 and racked up a record-breaking 100 million downloads in its first week and 148 million downloads in its first month (beaten only by Pokemon Go). Make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

This analysis is written by Hadrian Semroud , Javier Barnes and Krishna Israney. Opinions shared are personal and do not reflect those of their employers. Want to hear us debate Clash Mini? Head on over to the Deconstructor of Fun podcast or click on the episode below! This post is sponsored by Xsolla.

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