Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

To give you a sense of what it’s like to work on a team, I’ve reached out to the three members of Undine Studios – Ben Haskett, Sarah Reed, and Will Reed. Brandon: If you please, go ahead and tell me a little about yourself and your company. Brandon: So is Undine Studios just the three of you? I was hooked.

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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? a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Carbonated also raised an $8.5M

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Game Errors

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Larian Studios’ most thriving title has left behind many successful games, and right now, it’s trailing only behind the epic Hogwarts Legacy, which got a peak of 870,000+ players. Community: Larian Studios, the company behind this epic game, has a strong presence on social media and many community platforms.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

To summarise it, failing to make and scale a high-quality RPG will likely doom a studio. To avoid this unnecessary scenario a studio should consider two elements: Trap 1: Watch out for over-extending your production costs. Just look at Hero Wars from a Playrix associated studio. Live operations are your livelihood.

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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. In my opinion, this is a herculean task for any company.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Further, recent strategic moves have been made by Voodoo to open “beyond hypercasual” studios. While the diminishing market share and opening of non-hypercasual studios can be seen as Voodoo’s fall from grace, it can also be viewed as Voodoo’s strategic retreat from the hypercasual market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

A studio working on an RPG has to focus on depth over core gameplay, have incredibly robust live operation capabilities, and nearly impeccable production processes that keep the content fresh for the players. All of the above require serious investments, which increases the risk of building an RPG game for a studio. Which makes sense.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 22, 2020

Built by Tencent’s Timi studio with decades of creating cosmetic economies (QQ Speed, Legend of the Dragon, Honor of Kings). To highlight one of the games, lets take a look at Zooba Battle Arena, developed by Wildlife studios (who recently raised a massive late-stage investment ). The game will no longer be the juggernaut it has been.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

This post is sponsored by Lab Cave , a Mobile Growth Company that provides App Store Optimization and Mediation services for mobile Apps and Games. This deconstruct is written by Eva Grillova (Game Designer at Smirk Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). It is a roguelike game consisting of a chain of dungeons.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. Ni-Zhan was the local competitor to Crossfire and the first FPS developed by a then unknown internal Studio called TiMi. Nobody believed mobile shooters could be big in the west.

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