Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

Source: Newzoo While many data and research companies are providing graphs showing modest growth, further analysis proves otherwise. During the lockdown years companies grew in headcount to supply content against the massive surge of demand. Fighting against the AI revolution is not the answer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Luckily, you - our dear reader - have the Deconstructor of Fun crew who combine public data and word-on-the-street insights to read between the lines and interpret what was left unsaid by one of the most influential game executives in the World, Mr. Ilkka Paananen. It’s Team Fight Tactics for casuals.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

iOS: Fix export with manually specified signing/provisioning data ( GH-57203 ). Networking: Fix HTTPRequest support for requests with "content-length" above 2.1 The illustration picture is from Fishards , a wacky fish-wizard PvP spell fighting game developed by Rivernotch Game Studio. GB ( GH-56331 ).

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 1, 2022

” My Data Points The games that launched me into writing this were: Control. This goes double if they just finished a huge boss fight and are full of adrenaline. Then, if you keep playing and repeat content or do harder stuff, you get a "better" ending. Yet, here we are. Ending an RPG was easy in the old days. GOAT) SOMA.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

TWiG 234: 500m Gamers on Tik Tok Can't Be Wrong / Supercell Unleashes the Flood Over 500m Tik Tok users watch gaming content every month, according to Jen's recent trips on the conference circuit, and this audience is one that the crew things you should be building your game thesis around from day one! Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2020

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. First, it takes a long time to get this kind of data. Getting into an auto-battler like Riot’s Team Fight Tactics is very difficult.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Consider it an appetizer to the content. You can link out to webshops where you can monetize without paying 30%, collect all the data you want, build direct relationships with your players, and leverage all the marketing power the web has to offer to acquire new users. Below you’ll find our conversation on YouTube and podcast.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. 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. This was no surprise as there was little content in the game.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even as creatives in other entertainment industries continue to fight to make fair wages, a new front has opened in gaming as developers figure out what to do about Unity’s new fee structure. Digitalization has resulted in a glut in gaming content and increased marketing expenses. billion last year.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Higher FPS can improve reaction times and input accuracy, making those challenging boss fights more manageable and enjoyable. Also, game patches not only bring new content but also optimizations that can significantly improve how the game runs on my system, often smoothing out any rough edges in performance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). 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. It truly shows how data driven Uber.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

We need to release regular updates: more content, more events, faster, and higher quality. Reusing content The next thing on our list is reusing and looping content. So, here are our tips on how to reuse and loop your content the right way: 1. Plan content looping during the feature design phase.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then you have the audiences for the superstar streamers like Ninja and others like PewDiePie that post a lot of content on YouTube. And then bring in things like payment, cloud services, and your content data network and all of the other kinds of services… your 3D engine, you can basically outsource a lot of things.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Looking at current popularity data of the highest-grossing games of the US market (top 200 grossing games), 23% of casual games and 47% of mid-core games are utilizing minigames. Very nifty way to, for example, map out LiveOps requirements and content of your next live event project.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

relied on data to figure out what they wanted this game to be. But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. They removed all of the F2P monetization, polished some of the features, and released a new batch of content for season 4.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

New content releases would drive intermittent spikes in revenue, that would push revenue up to between $500k and $750k. However, as seen in our Daily Revenue data provided by data.ai, starting in October the game has been seeing significant growth in revenue. It is my belief that we are starting to see that effort bear fruit.

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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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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In practices, most good puzzles also have many decisions, because you tend to play the same ruleset repeatedly, but with different statistical variations in the content. Not that different from fighting one monster versus another using the same combat system in an RPG! So it’s easy to make more content for, rather than hard.

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The Liquid Fire

JULY 26, 2023

However, if “all” you need is data, then some would argue a ScriptableObject is a better choice. That may well be the case – as one example, all GameObjects will have an attached Transform , which would be unused and unrelated to the data you wanted saved. Kill or be killed.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 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. Fighting Games. All are the same within the Fighting games. All revenue numbers show net revenues.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all data is gathered from the one and only App Annie and analysed by the author(s). For example, entering Fighting games is nearly suicidal effort. Fighting games install trends are spiky as is the revenue rate. Straightforward content production. All predictions can be found here. Same Studio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Therefore, Cookie Run: Kingdom ’s similar but improved art style with a casual Build & Harvest and in-depth RPG gameplay makes it easier to win over adult players, which is supported by the user data. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

At that point, the developer will work overtime to produce content but see no return for their investment as the revenue is spent on fuelling further growth. Your initial investment is somewhere in the $250 - $300 million range to launch a service with half the content of Apple Arcade. Plus they have a library of world-class content.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

I’m aware that this is a subjective claim, that people will be skeptical, and rightly so because so many other fighting have done a questionable job with “accessibility.” User Interface for Friend Matches This is the kind of innovation that isn’t new to the world, but it IS new to fighting games. Has it been done in a fighting game?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. Bot invaders often don't interrupt a boss fight. Limited regen (e.g.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

It’s gonna be the work, the creative work of millions of people who can each add their own elements to it through content creation and programing and design. And companies will be able to form to create content that builds out this world. The other critical element of the Metaverse is it’s not just built by one mega corporation, right?

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

The first part of this so-called “Great Utility Update” began during Alpha 12 with a few fundamental mechanical changes, but since then the project remained on the to-do list until 1) even more content was added to the game, and 2) we collected more info about what items people were and were not using, and why.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Being able to backtrack is generally going to be more realistic in the RPG sense--of course your character should be able to go back and pick up that item they left behind, or fight that enemy that scared you away before. Not universally so, to be sure, but grind tends to be more of a roguelite thing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie and references global figures. content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. And as always, we’ll let the data back us up. But first, a quick recap.

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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

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Others: Multiple replay reasons Lost Ark has innovated on some interesting gameplay systems besides quests and battles that encourage replaying content. Though, all of these foibles could be found in other games as well.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie and analysed by the author(s). Kudos to their unrivalled data support! Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2:

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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

APRIL 8, 2019

In live ops, these review processes are well-defined: systems and economy design, merchandising, UX, data analysis, and sprint planning for features that drive KPI improvements, better player segmentation, and improved UA funnels are the foundation of F2P mobile product success. Simply put, with the right circumstances, IPs mitigate risk.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

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. This has led to a resurgence in the value of IP in the market, as it is now harder to get new users.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

data from the ever amazing Sensor Tower. data from the unrivalled GameRefinery. Heroes: the way E&P scales content. As mentioned, Small Giant scales E&P’s content by adding heroes (that all have to be balanced), which is the reason why acquiring the strongest heroes is such a rare event.

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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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