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. But there was nothing radically new to them.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

These points are informed by my research into the topic and conversations I’ve had with platform operators and gaming and ad tech executives: When will ATT be made mandatory? ATT is the privacy framework that prevents developers from using various pieces of user data for the purposes of targeting ads to those users.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As we look out to our plans for 2023, we will continue to increase marketing investment in our growth franchises while being disciplined and data-driven in how we allocate marketing capital. You can imagine there are two issues with social casino. percent of Playtika’s revenue now comes from its casual portfolio Anything World raises $7.5M

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

I thought it would be interesting to contrast this to Word Dad , a puzzle game made by my friend, master game designer John Cutter. A brief aside on puzzles All three of these are more correctly called puzzles, of course. This means that really, puzzles and games are terms that are matters of degree, not kind.

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Filmustage

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Join us as we dive into the art of crafting the perfect DOOD report and reveal how leveraging the right software can transform a daunting pile of logistical puzzles into a clear-cut plan of action. Keep Backups: Always save backups of your DOOD reports in case of data loss or corruption. This enhances readability and professionalism.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile. So it makes total sense to explore going cross-platform and developing PC/console-exclusive games.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

relied on data to figure out what they wanted this game to be. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales by Next Games. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t initially created for the Netflix Platform. So, technically Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t released in 2022. They had the spinner idea in mind.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This post is written by Nebojsa “Nebo” Radovic , who’s an experienced mobile marketing professional who currently heading the user acquisition for N3TWORK’s Scale Platform. Becoming the first mover is not something you can replicate on the existing platforms in 2020. That’s how confident they (and we) are in their platform.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. In this analysis, data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets.

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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. Small Giant did it with Puzzle and Empires. All revenue numbers show net revenues.

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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. The monetization didn't look that bad.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. data from the ever amazing Sensor Tower. data from the unrivalled GameRefinery. It has been there ever since. Wooga GmbH.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 21, 2023

Companies have since been forced to seek permission from app users before tracking their activity across other apps and websites for advertising purposes, meaning they now lack much of the valuable data previously used to build highly-effective UA campaigns. The match3 puzzler Best Fiends demonstrates this well.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This blog post presents data and findings from an annual survey of professional video game developers conducted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) during October and November, 2022, alongside details about new AWS for Games solutions and customer stories. Kinesis Data Streams is great for our metrics pipeline, ” says Maynard. “ Highlights.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”. He also said there are opportunities in going cross-platform and direct billing. Kress said that the current’s market’s woes were “all Apple’s fault”. “We

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

In comparison, Cookie Run: Kingdom is more similar to My Little Pony in terms of art style than the earlier Cookie Run platformer games, demonstrating Devsister evolved their art style to better fit the current preference of the global market. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom. Evolution of Cookie Run.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Playrix is one of the powerhouses in the puzzle genre thanks to Gardenscapes and Homescapes’ current success. Township has been on mobile platforms since 2013 and generated around a Billion Dollars in life-time revenues. Data from the best in business, Sensor Tower. exclusive and then on Facebook canvas. All revenue is net.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 19, 2021

You definitely lose a richness of data, and that data would be aggregated for Limited Ad Tracking (LAT) users, but it doesn’t mean you can’t build campaigns based on conversion. You can start with a genre-targeted approach, which works very well for arcade, casual, and casino portfolios (see King’s giant puzzle portfolio).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 20, 2019

Matchington Mansion is a top 5 puzzle game with raking in over $15M a month in net revenues. Data in this deconstruction is provided by ultra awesome Sensor Tower. content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. That’s a lot of work for so few….

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

The fact that Battle Passes have been successful on audiences so alien to each other like MOBAs and Match-3 Puzzle fans shows how versatile its design can be. They involve player skill and time spent, so the contents are perceived as more meritocratic and effort-based than a direct purchase. In other words, Passes don’t expire.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 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. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

All the data is derived from Sensor Tower’s fantastic data plarform. Clash of Clans has shown unprecedented staying power by staying in the top 10 grossing since 2012 (data: Sensor Tower). Live services : Over the years, the game hasn’t lost its step and has continued to provide fresh content regularly.

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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. You can then use those signals to give the player what they want and determine who the valuable players are.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 23, 2020

Market evolution in the mobile gaming market are the foundational uber-cycles precipitated by innovations and platform changes that create whole new product categories -- these developments are so large and mass-market that they create opportunities that attract mainstream investors to the gaming category. Model 3: Early Stage Bets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Xsolla has dedicated tools that will help you create your own online commerce platform, improve your performance marketing and discoverability, and expand your game business on mobile and PC. The hard lock on waiting feels much more punishing in this game than say in a puzzle game when you run out of lives-. But there is a problem.

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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. 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.

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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. It made $5.1

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

Unless otherwise specified, all ranking, downloads and revenue data below has been acquired through the wonderful data services of App Annie. content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. the second piece of the puzzle. Source: BoomBit website.

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