Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 12, 2020

Supercell in Decline Earlier this month, Ilkka Paananen, Supercell’s CEO talked about key learnings from his company on their 10 year anniversary: 10 Learnings from 10 Years. Some common refrains: “If Supercell were a public company, their performance would be unacceptable” “They should try to be more like Zynga.”

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Game Refinery

JULY 27, 2022

Year after year, more and more game companies have started to participate in Pride celebrations. Riot is no stranger to the Pride Month celebrations: the company has openly supported Pride for many years, and the event shows in all of their games. Multiple games by Zynga. Beatstar (Space Ape). Conclusion.

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Game Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Mattrick was also a leading exec at EA, followed by stints as boss of Microsoft’s gaming division, and of Zynga. 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. Mino was founded back in 2011.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Supercell CEO’s annual blog post is a personal, inspirational, and sincere communication method from the top brass of a major mobile games company. Similar messages from a CEOs of a public company would immediately get dissected by stock market analysts, determining what’s PR fluff and what’s the actual beef.

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Moonmana

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Founded in 2008 , Moonmana is a European game development company and Art production studio that works hand-in-hand with Forbes TOP 13 List of the most valuable video game companies. . The key to the company’s success is the presence of talented and experienced professionals worldwide.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Outside of these two publishers, only two other publishers were in the top 10 in both downloads and revenue (SpinX and Zynga). Zynga and Playtika have diversified their portfolio beyond Slot games with Zynga Poker - Texas Hold'em, and Playtika’s Bingo Blitz and World Series of Poker. Downloads for poker games went down 13% YoY.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

James Marr has been a Technical Director at studios including DeNA, Zynga and N3TWORK Studios. INVESTING / M&A Metaverse company Infinite Reality will go public through $1.85B SPAC Keywords acquires PR firm LabCom Jagex acquires Gamepires, studio behind Scum Turkish studio Pink Games has $1.2

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Game Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Rollic is a subsidiary of Zynga, which in turn is owned by Take-Two interactive. To date, the company has released 20 games that have reached the #1 or #2 spots in the U.S. In 2022, 15 titles in the company’s portfolio have made it into the top ten most downloaded charts, including Fill The Fridge! Apple App Store.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

in market capitalization, Amazon is the most valuable company in the world. Further, the company has arguably the highest defensive barriers to its business than any other company in the world. However, when we look at gaming companies, we don’t see the same level of defensibility that we see for companies in other industries.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

Alex Shea , Head of Publishing at one of the world’s most notable companies in the space, Voodoo, recently proclaimed the death of the genre during a talk at Pocket Gamer Connects London. “If In fact, he claims Homa continues to grow as a company. And it’s only a matter of time before Apple poots the kibosh on fingerprinting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

This past year, some companies seem to understand this better than others. We decided it was unlikely that they would sell, but the rationale for the acquisition holds true: Tactile is the only top developer by revenue share without a parent company. To be clear, Playrix key titles have been on an absolute tear.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It is, however, possible that Playtika has addressed the impact of ATT ( app tracking transparency ) previously, but it is peculiar that it is not mentioned at all now when the casual part of the portfolio has become the majority in this known social casino games expert company. year-over-year, comprising 54.9% Their stock is down.

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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. What can we expect from this team?

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

He has been in the video game industry since 1993, where he has worked at both start-ups and huge entertainment companies. Lloyd has been on the executive team of three-game companies (Merscom, Playdom and Spooky Cool Labs) and part of exits worth over $800 million. Zynga saw its valuation reach over $10 billion.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

TWIG #219 TakeTwo Zynga Acquisition - perhaps the most ill-advised acquisition in gaming of all time ? While Microsoft has been in games for decades, it’s a conglomerate tech giant that ultimately cares about the valuation multiple of the overall company. Signups are live now. Listen to one of our podcasts from this week, we’ve got: ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This is in line with the macroeconomic situation where companies that possess the pricing power are making consumers carry the cost of inflation. Companies typically reduce prices to capture the biggest audience possible.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Many successful game company founders would jump on the chance to exit with $55 million, let alone receiving it as seed investment. The co-founders of the company come from Peak, Zynga, and Riot, where some held co-founder or key team roles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Post-COVID investment flows in Social and mobile gaming emerged as one of the best performing sectors during coronavirus, and the ensuing influx of investment will likely impact companies large and small. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

We followed the Microsoft-Activision saga, watched Apple’s privacy changes rollout and read about blockchain gaming madness that saw self-proclaimed Web 3 companies pick up massive investments at nosebleed valuations. FTX on the other hand was lavishly funding blockchain gaming while holding assets for some of the companies.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

What these companies have in common is that they’ve carved out an area of expertise and are attempting to find a new angle to dominate and expand, usually with an audience that has some affinity for their existing portfolio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 19, 2021

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. What about when these gaming “content fortresses'' buy an ad tech company instead, like Zynga with Chartboost?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Even though Zynga’s Harry Potter: Puzzle and Spells saw massive growth, it wasn’t enough to counteract the rest of Zynga’s portfolio’s decline. AppLovin’s game collection is large, especially compared to AB, Playrix, and Zynga, so it’s natural to expect to see a bit more growth. We all knew it was coming.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2023

Activision-Blizzard merged with King in 2015 Microsoft acquired ZeniMax in 2020 EA acquired Glu Mobile in 2021 Embracer Group bought Gearbox in 2021 Take Two bought Zynga in 2022 These kinds of behaviors are fairly normal in any major industry. Smaller companies fall on hard times and a larger company offers a rescue.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

How Spyke Games (and other Turkish companies) shine in competitive markets The rise of Turkish companies in saturated market niches is a captivating phenomenon. billion-dollar deal with Zynga? The Unique traits of Turkish studios Now, let's shift our focus to the broader realm of Turkish gaming companies.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

M&A Brings the Games, Casino Brings the Scale When looking at the Top 10 Casino publishers by revenue market share over 2019, Playtika takes top spot followed by Aristocrat (Product Madness), Moon Active, Scientific Games and Zynga. Playtika in the lead, followed by Aristocrat, Moon Active, Scientific Games and Zynga.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

What are the biggest challenges and mistakes made by early stage companies when first attempting to scale? Why not ask some of the people who were there as founders, investors, and key executives at those very companies? We'll also talk about kind of this difference between creative versus data driven companies.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Close to the top there are companies, such as Jam City (Cookie Jam, Panda Pop) , Rovio (Angry Birds Dream Blast) , Tactile (Lily’s Garden) , AppLovin (Matchington Mansion, Clockmaker) and Storm8 (Home Design Makeover, Property Brothers ) making strides with a hit or two, yet remaining miles away from the top three.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

So make sure to forward it inside your company. Just half a year later, the thriving Facebook gaming industry that gave birth to the likes of Zynga, was dead. Companies that embrace change are the future winners. Data.ai’s State of Mobile Gaming reports is a must-read for everyone in or with mobile games. I was there.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 29, 2020

Let’s first compare current market valuation relative to 2019 revenue and EBITDA data (because that’s all we have) and notice that in comparison to public game companies, on an EBITDA multiple basis, Epic Games definitely seems fairly valued. We multiply this mobile revenue by the average of Glu and Zynga revenue multiple = 5.1x

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 23, 2020

The valuations of these companies will drop rapidly. These market evolution catalyze large waves of investment into mobile gaming from sources of capital that don’t typically make equity investments into gaming companies. Smaller, single-game mobile gaming studios will see their growth trajectory obstructed completely and suddenly.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

It seems that the company has been thoroughly experimenting with better ways to monetize its existing user base via the introduction of features like Battle Pass, deeper live ops, tournaments. They showed it’s still possible in this category to get to some decent success even if you are not a big company with tons of resources on your behalf.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Hero Wars from a Playrix portfolio company and RAID from Plarium are on the surface radically different squad RPG titles. Combat Puzzle , Small Giant’s (Zynga) follow up title for Empires & Puzzles looks to have failed to exit soft launch in 2020. And a few extra predictions: Zynga’s Puzzle Combat will launch globally.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2022

On the software front, the movements are even more noticeable and have been going on for several years now, with many developers aiming to get positioned on mobile by engaging in acquisition (TTWO buying Zynga, ATVI buying King…) or simply by launching mobile adaptations of their products (CoDM, Apex Legends Mobile, PUBG…).

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

An acquisition on these terms would represent a 55% premium on the Finnish company’s closing share price the day prior. The company disclosed that it had already submitted a bid on November 16, 2022, for €8.50 Following its first full quarter as a public company, its market value halved in short order.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

Zoobaa, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Beatstar, Farmville, and Zynga Poker are all mobile games that celebrated Pride in 2022 through seasonal events which involved a UI refresh, limited-time characters and cosmetic items, and lots of money raised for non-profits championing LGBTQ+ rights.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 26, 2021

Between executive stints at Atari, EA, Zynga, Kabam and Oculus, he has a long and impressive CV that runs the gamut of platforms, genres and business models. Netflix is a one product company with a bunch of supporting elements that help that product be an incredible satisfaction for consumers and a monetizing engine for investors.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this letter, he acknowledged that one of the key challenges that the company needed to focus on was improving how they served players in their live games. This new direction and the success it is bearing is an indication that Ilkka’s vision for the company is on the right track. WTF is going on?

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