Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

State of the Mobile Games Market The Western mobile games market , which we broadly analyze by removing the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets from the numbers, saw overall installs climb by 14% to 47.5B Noticeably, Tencent’s PUBG Mobile and Garena’s Free Fire were both down 37%.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Following another big week in terms of headcount reductions, interactive entertainment is on track to shed a record number of jobs in 2024. As his own tenure comes to a close, Jim Ryan, President & CEO at Sony Interactive Entertainment, found himself tasked with announcing an 8 percent workforce reduction. Take Sony, for example.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2023

It’s a fully animated social game for mobile and desktop. But we are considering expanding to consoles and VR as well.” They are a hosting company that specializes in providing high-performance, low-latency infrastructure for real-time entertainment. Utomik Another well known Dutch game tech company is i3D.net.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

. - Executive of a small developer who has till date amassed well over 100M installs on mobile The end of discovery also means that there will be no indie breakouts from small indie developers. Join one of the few powerful game companies taking over mobile. Exit mobile. Instead, the indie developers will have three options.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

He worked on some of the most well known entertainment IP during his time in the US. Solid pipeline By taking the time to build a solid pipeline the team is now at a place in development where it’s easy to create new content such as episodes, story beats and missions. “We The game will be accompanied by an animated mini-series.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Console Game Development As a leading unreal game development studio, we have delivered robust console titles for PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms. Is it well-defined?

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Game Daily

APRIL 13, 2023

Gaming media hub Fandom – which publishes GameSpot, among many other entertainment properties – released a survey today which sheds light on its consumers’ habits. Mostly though, people play mobile games. Parents of teens are 46% more likely to play games with their kids.

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Jaunty Bear Games

OCTOBER 9, 2022

If it’s been a while since you visited your local arcade or bought an Atari game console for your home, then chances are you have forgotten just how simple video games used to be. However, these aren’t just simple remakes; they’re bringing new elements to old classics that keep players interested and entertained.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Game developers conceptualize, design, and build games for various platforms, including consoles, PCs, mobile devices, and virtual reality systems. Quality assurance and testing ensure the game functions as intended, and ongoing updates may address bugs or introduce new content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

As commentary, I wrote: “Yes, Tencent already owns the biggest MOBA franchises on PC (League of Legends) and mobile (Honor of Kings). Yes, Tencent/Riot are still planning on launching [LoL: Wild Rift] on both mobile and console. As a bonus, mobile battle royale history will also be covered.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

In the mobile free to play area, additional capital also means the ability to fund long payback games at scale (e.g., Budgets for AAA console games could be more like $20M-$50M (notwithstanding Activision’s $200M+ budgets for Call of Duty although also including marketing and distribution). Apex Legends, Call of Duty Mobile, etc.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

If market trends, especially on PC and Console, are something you want to hear more about, I highly suggest you check out my conversation with Newzoo’s Head of Consulting, Ben Porter below. During the lockdown years companies grew in headcount to supply content against the massive surge of demand.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I believe that mobile games could be facing the same deliberate death-by-a-platform as games Facebook suffered a decade ago. Just remember one thing: Even though Facebook pulled the plug on games, the gaming business rose to unexpected new heights on a new platform, which was mobile. We’re like frogs being slowly boiled alive.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 1, 2020

Today, especially on the mobile gaming side, the market has matured over the past 10 years with many of the key vendor categories having well entrenched and well capitalized players. Growth Area: Console and PC games are increasingly shifting to free to play monetization and therefore a live operating model. in net revenue on mobile.

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Platform preferences: Both Fortnite and Apex Legends are available on mobile, PC, and console. If we look at Fortnite, we can see that 69% of players play it on Console, which includes both Xbox and PlayStation. It is because some players play this title on both PC and Console or even all of these three platforms.

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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

Being the way a player interacts with all of a game’s content, UI is naturally central to the experience, thus one of the most fundamental aspects a game’s design needs to address is matching up that design with its corresponding system requirements, including the display device!

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Game Errors

APRIL 26, 2023

However, based on the estimates of various gaming websites and reviewers, the main story of Far Cry 6 is expected to take around 20-25 hours to complete if you focus solely on the story missions and do not spend much time on side content. There won’t be flashy entertainment centers with casino pokies online, only harsh suburbs of ghetto 8.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

Although most of them come from the F2P mobile sector, the industry has observed professionals transitioning from the PC/console space to focus on developing AAA-quality blockchain games. Improved UGC integration : There is no denying that User Generated Content is becoming more and more important each day.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Niantic’s AR-based mobile game took the world by storm and broke numerous world records , including the most revenue grossed by a mobile game in its first month ($206.5m). It’s an entertaining game in its own right, revolving around solid tapping and swiping controls that players must master to succeed.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 2, 2023

His first game, the mobile RPG Soulvars , started out as a passion project. Now Gino has teamed up with Shueisha Games , the gaming branch of Japan’s largest manga publisher, to bring Soulvars to PC and consoles. However, I wasn’t content with this and decided to create my own games by hand using pencils and notebooks.”

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

They are more popular than ever, facilitating social interactions, flooding our newsfeeds and providing countless hours of entertainment. Role-playing Games (RPGs) Role-playing games are one of the most immersive and content-rich games one can play. Given the variety of genres available to you, your gaming options are numerous.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. So, setting their sites on a subscription-based offering on mobile does sound like a more approachable business that Netflix would consider. These games could be a console, pc, or mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Additionally, the Pass-related quests are great to foster horizontal content exploration , by directing players to engage with specific game modes or incentivizing them to acquire, play with and upgrade all the characters. I get THIS MANY CONTENT for this little money!? It will be interesting to see how it turns out in the long term.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This is no wonder, given that the business model has evolved from premium products to free-to-play, subscriptions, and ad monetization while competing against other forms of entertainment such as video streaming and social media. We’re seeing a 5 to 10% decline in mobile in Western countries. And the same happened to Metaverse.

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Game Daily

JULY 14, 2023

Each year, the Entertainment Software Association releases a raft of stats about video game consumption in the United States, that speaks to the growing popularity and positivity of gaming. The console business is now more than 50 years old. Preferences: The top five genres show how much mobile and casual games influence the market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

Indeed that’s the expectation for almost any game, that the majority of players can participate and experience most of the content (at least in theory). Stable Asset Price Floor $60, now quickly becoming $70 is the widely cited price for a console game. One is the average ARPU LTV for mobile F2P is close - $87 in 2022 ( Statista ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We can say with more confidence than ever that gaming is at the heart of media and entertainment. For the past decade, we’ve looked at mobile gaming as the driver of gaming growth, both in terms of new players and revenue generated. Yet this year it’s the console segment that is the biggest revenue growth driver, with an impressive +7.4%

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

. “It’s also, I think, in some ways a little scary that one device from one single company can theoretically replace every single device and can now sit right between the consumer and all the other content out there,” he mused. The discussion also addressed the challenges of producing quality content for VR.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

Tim Sweeney, the CEO and founder of Epic Games, has been one of the few vocal critics of Apple and Google for misusing “monopolistic” positions of power on their respective mobile phone platforms. For example: Google’s use of user interface barriers with scary pop-ups when end-users try to download an Epic mobile app store for Android.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

One HaZ has shared his insights on the exciting developments happening within the Unreal Engine Fortnite (UEFN) platform and its potentially transformative impact on the future of gaming and content creation. “The w hole thing Fortnite has been well known for is its players can create stuff, user-generated content,” he explained.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Even the ones that exist on mobile cannot push for mass adoption, because there is no clarity as to how blockchain games are positioned. This will prevent Apple from making any changes in the App Store while getting their cut from those blockchain games for every primary sale done inside the mobile app.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

You should be fine as a player to be in that situation since you traded money for entertainment value just like any other game. We preview all the amazing Deconstructor of Fun content coming next week to GDC then get into the news. Remember, if you see a member of the DoF family at GDC, make sure to say Mice Nuts ?

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