Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. Curiously, market data shows that the simpler “Scapes” style games actually perform better than Fishdom. The market data suggests that they adopted an outdated model rather than create a new one. The Twist: The Puzzle Pass.

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DameDev.tv

JULY 12, 2023

A graph is a data structure composed of interconnected nodes. Graph theory consists of one of the most, if not the most, useful concepts in computer science. It implements several of the aforementioned algorithms and concepts. Like any tree , the AST is a graph , but note that not every graph can be considered a tree.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The mobile hit Empires and Puzzles (E&P) by Small Giant Games (acquired by Zynga) has made over $600M in net-revenues while racking up around 60 million installs. While there have been numerous clones and follow up titles trying to get a piece of the ever growing puzzle RPG pie, none of them has had any meaningful success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. Event- and content-specific currencies is a trend we’re across all the genres.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the last and, the most important piece of the “scaling” puzzle focusing on the nothing less than the game that is being promoted and the teams that are promoting it. They were also one of the first companies to run puzzle ads at scale, that are now used by pretty much every larger advertiser in the space.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Charles Lee (Art Lead) , veteran art director and concept artist with past experience at Blizzard , Sony Pictures Animation , and who until very recently worked in the Visual Development of Netflix hit Arcane (damn!). I won’t forgive you for that, Supercell!) An additional risk is the remote work factor.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. All the content in the game was just data in fields. On the flip side, adding data was really easy. Highly narrative, intricate puzzles, and immersive storytelling.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

This conviction is not until yet backed by KPIs (data from Sensor Tower). Nevertheless, Everdale is not a placement puzzle like a typical city-building game. This of course entails that Supercell is able to attract players at a manageable cost, retain them with existing and new content - and most importantly, monetize them.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. I could save the data to revisit it later, after adjustments are made.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie. Given our data, it seems likely that Casual Casino will not be a mainstay for major Casino publishers, and revenue growth will be pursued through other avenues. Also supported by insights from Lloyd Melnick. Let’s dive in!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The answer to this puzzle lies in understanding the following facts: Logic sets information into Physics, but it does not need to retrieve data from it. Neither need to retrieve data. Physics pushes data to Rendering. To make this easier, we came up with the concept of Servers.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

none of Dishonored's morality system and I think this is good, the "stealth puzzle = humane cage free assassination" philosophy has aged poorly imo 69% less stealth. Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Beatstars’ mixes both concepts, and expands the amount of inputs to those native on a touchscreen. The hard lock on waiting feels much more punishing in this game than say in a puzzle game when you run out of lives-. A softer subscription-like model would allow to: Focus the game on its more fun concepts: Discovering new music.

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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. They boast industry’s largest in-app video ad network, a robust mobile ad mediation platform, and a data-driven user acquisition platform. In other words, everything you need for game growth.

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