Game Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” The Salt Lake City-based company of roughly 20 staff recently announced a funding round of $12 million (Hiro Capital, with additional participation from Makers Fund, Krafton, and Sony Innovation Fund). “Some people just won’t fit the company, and there’s some detriment there. .

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 31, 2023

Companies like Blizzard and Valve have been trying to make it happen for years and to some extent have already succeeded with products like the Wow Tokens or the Steam Workshop. Of course, dealing with virtual economies makes things a lot easier and if done right can offer a model for the real world. Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

Indie game makers confront a variety of hurdles, ranging from a lack of funding to marketing difficulties. From managing a team of collaborators to optimizing game mechanics and building a loyal fanbase, indie game makers must navigate a range of challenges to bring their vision to life. However, the road to success is not easy.

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

Indie game makers confront a variety of hurdles, ranging from a lack of funding to marketing difficulties. From managing a team of collaborators to optimizing game mechanics and building a loyal fanbase, indie game makers must navigate a range of challenges to bring their vision to life. However, the road to success is not easy.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

More Realistic Gaming Online gaming companies stand to benefit significantly from the application of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the areas of simulation performance, graphic quality, and realism. The predictive skills of AI allow game makers to construct very realistic and immersive virtual gaming environments.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With first-hand experience on both mobile, PC, and Console, and vast experience at Supercell and its internal culture - as well as the trust of the top brass in the company -, he seems a great choice to lead a studio with the mission of expanding the company beyond mobile. That is why the emphasis has been on hiring teams of founders.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Makes all of the high level decisions, including major features, story, world building, budgeting, scheduling, team composition, marketing, contracts, etc. The final decision maker. UI Artist : Maker of buttons, widgets, fonts, and more icons than you could imagine you’d ever need.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 18, 2023

The big, fun news in the gaming world recently was that it looked like Wizards of the Coast (WotC for short, owned by Hasbro) was going to drastically change the Open Gaming License for Dungeons & Dragons. Running a game company is already near financial suicide as it is. Best of luck, game makers! Yeah, I know.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 24, 2021

I would like to tell the story of how Filmustage was born: how an unlucky accident led to a cool startup that helps a huge number of filmmakers around the world. As expected I made a lot of friends and got interesting contacts among movie makers. I'am CEO, and co-founder of the Filmustage. How did I get to America?

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021. Where did it go wrong?" , MIT Technology Review, 9 Feb 2023.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Apex was one of the largest games in the company’s steeply declining mobile portfolio. The franchises of both companies have had a steep fall along with the quick exodus of leaders. The company was in no position to cancel it based on this. read: EA’s acquisition of Glu does not seem to be going according to plan.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Mobile game makers and indies can get mired in a host of different costs and expenses as component licensing arrangements—by relying on different service providers for specific technologies (e.g., Large platform companies often initially subsidize third-party content creators to ensure widespread adoption of their technical standards.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 24, 2023

You might know Playrix as the company that entered market segments dominated by King (Candy Sagas) and Supercell (Hay Day) only to beat both at what they are great at. The company was founded in the city of Vologda, Russia. Petersburg, the company was unable to attract key talent to relocate to Vologda. Source: Data.ai

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 13, 2024

I'm a tiny, tiny figure in a big world, my time is past, and I'm writing depressing things. So, the world is changing, and we need to figure out how to adjust with it. What do we teach to aspiring game makers? And It Feels Like The World Is Changing Let's assume that the video game industry is going to shrink.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

” Nascent scene Gaming companies are currently worried that the nascent AI scene will take a while to settle down. ” Nascent scene Gaming companies are currently worried that the nascent AI scene will take a while to settle down.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Looking to the future, Cilingir noted an increased interest in subscription gaming services like Netflix and Google Play Pass, but also acknowledged that launching new games is tougher than ever, and urged game-makers to think more creatively than ever before when going to market.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

Mobile gaming is dominant across the world, with an expectation of 2.8 to 574 million, or 17 percent of the global market, the second largest in the world. The number of people paying to play games will grow by more than 7.3% globally to 1.47 billion, and is forecast to continue growing to 1.66 billion players by the end of 2026.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Yesterday, Unity – maker of a popular game development engine – introduced plans to “introduce a new Unity Runtime Fee that’s based on game installs” The response from game developers was swift and excoriating, with many game-makers posting furious reactions on social media. They can charge whatever they want?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 27, 2018

Then a year ago or so, we encouraged professional tutorial makers like Nathan Lovato ( GDquest ) and Chris Bradfield ( KidsCanCode ) to help us, and they eventually completely took over, making our 3.0 As the project representative, I'll also be travelling a lot in Europe to meet companies, universities and take part in industry events.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

In Conversation: Riot SVP & League Studio Head Andrei van Roon The Consolidation of Blockchain Gaming The entire world is preparing for a possible economic downturn, and companies are trying to find ways to minimize the negative impact. TWiG #228 Sega + Rovio = another case of two drunks holding each other up? ?

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Game Daily

JUNE 28, 2023

A cross between Grey’s Anatomy and Night in the Woods may seem like a strange premise for a video game, but Fall of Porcupine is just that, and it’s part of a growing market for narrative games that have something useful to say about the world. He has to learn that a hospital is also a company that is interested in making money.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 3, 2020

When you’re creating a game that prints more than a few copies, you’ll need to ask a special kind of company to manufacture your game. These companies use what’s called offset printing – basically the method by which more than 500 games can be cost-effectively printed. Make sure you think of everything!

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

Companies like Blizzard and Valve have been trying to make it happen for years and to some extent have already succeeded with products like the Wow Tokens or the Steam Workshop. Utility Is Another much abused word in the web3 world and pretty much a proxy for broad demand for assets in your loot economy. Progression Utility 2.

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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. Plus they have a library of world-class content.

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Tom Francis

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The card company would happily take 200 different images, but they couldn’t combine the images and text for me – I had to do that. This was a programming problem, and the only programming language I knew was the one I made the game in: it’s called Game Maker. A solution for this should exist.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

A lot has been written, and there has been a lot of discussion about, the potential for a huge new gaming and virtual world paradigm which many are calling the Metaverse. But yet the talk about this thing is it’s not just the work of one company. It’s not just one company’s product or revenue stream. Windows is a platform.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 19, 2021

Written by Tiffany Keller , Director of Product for Subway Surfers by Sybo Games , the most downloaded Android game in the world. At the very high end, the companies that are amassing a walled garden of IDFVs are on a path to do better.” This is absolutely true- if these companies do it right. Drop me a message !

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Gamesbrief

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If all the computers in all the world were suddenly destroyed, many currencies would have real trouble continuing to function. In the world of video games, proponents of NFTs argue, “Imagine that you own a purple lightsaber as an NFT. So I can’t see a world where it is easy, or cheap, or simple to get an NFT into a variety of games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Angry Birds maker Rovio has entered preliminary discussions with interested bidders following a ‘surprise’ all-cash proposal worth approximately €750 million from Israel-based Playtika in January. An acquisition on these terms would represent a 55% premium on the Finnish company’s closing share price the day prior.

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Game Daily

MAY 3, 2023

CEO Mathieu Nouzareth about the lessons the company has learned so far. GameDaily: The Sandbox has said that it wants to disrupt existing game makers like Minecraft and Roblox? Nouzareth: We have tremendous respect for those Web2 metaverse companies. GameDaily spoke to The Sandbox’s U.S. We’re building a platform.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Google and DoF brought together the most influential gaming investors, companies, and talents in Istanbul! Understanding players and marketability have also become more important, leading to larger companies increasingly building content fortresses – in which they acquire a user and move them between games in their portfolio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. GoPractice is also highly recommended by some of the top mobile games companies, which is how I originally got connected with Oleg.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

Now of course there’s only one MMO that could reverse this trend bigly - and that’s of course World of Warcraft. And finally, we made a super bold prediction that someone will acquire Best Fiend’s maker Seriously. If N3TWORK fails to launch anything new in 2020 it is likely that the company will be acquired by a larger publisher.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 20, 2019

The thing is, we’re not out here trying to expose the makers of the game. We believe it is in the companies and shareholders' best interests to not drive short-term bookings growth via unprofitable UA campaigns.” Nothing’s free in this world. The address of the studio points to Patio Coffee Shop in San Mateo. I hear you say?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

However, I don’t think any company in the world would just deny a sustainable cash flow in the long run. In this latest episode of Tokenomics, Ethan sits down with Koh Kim , Head of Ecosystem at Sui maker MystenLabs. Tokenomics #20 - Why MystenLabs Raised $300m to Build a Better Layer1 for Web3 Gaming It's big #20! to $184.4B

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

The latest funding round was led by Index Ventures , a high-profile VC firm known for investing in some of the biggest companies in the games industry: King, Roblox, and Supercell. Even though Candy Crush Saga had roaring success with the match-3 switcher, King was not the first company to create the mechanic. From ROI to LTV.

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