Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Digital Chess, one of the first video games ever created, has experienced a massive revival on mobile, with hundreds of Chess games available to download from the iOS store. million people signing up to the browser-turned-mobile game Chess.com and a 603% leap in chess book sales in the US; it now even has an exclusive game on Netflix.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. But not only is it the first to make it to mobile, it’s also the first one to be free to play. Summoners War: Chronicles is yet another MMORPG to make it to mobile. It’s tricky taking any game from PC and Console to mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 6, 2024

Playable Factory offers a suite of products that empower users throughout the ad development process, including tools for ad creation, customization and detailed performance analysis. They are typically found on mobile devices as part of a larger app or within mobile web browsers. Are Playable Ads Working?

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He worked 5 years on his nostalgic 3D platformer Raccoo Venture , but according to Brazilian solo developer Diego Ras the journey was ‘extremely rewarding’. As a solo developer, Ras loves the complete control he has over his creations. Why did you become a solo developer? “I’ve What’s your creative process? “As

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

However, developing games has become very time-consuming and expensive. Many ask if there is a future for these developers who spend years developing these games. Many ask if there is a future for these developers who spend years developing these games. Casual Mobile Art. 2D and 3D character development.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Let’s find out how KAYAC approaches development of Hypercasual games in 2024; what their expectations from the market are; which best practices for game development they can point out; and what tips for adapting games for the Western region they have to offer. Developers can choose the best conditions from many publishers.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Mobile gaming has experienced an unprecedented surge in recent years, with iOS emerging as a prominent platform for game development. For aspiring game creators, venturing into iOS mobile game development services can be thrilling and rewarding. The mobile app landscape is vast, boasting over 230 billion apps worldwide.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 23, 2023

In 2023, the integration of wearable technology into game development is emerging as a significant trend. As wearable gaming technology advances, developers face new opportunities and challenges to create immersive experiences. However, developing games for wearable devices also come with certain limitations and design constraints.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Competition is fierce in the mobile game market, but even more so for developers of casual and hyper-casual games. So, what can mobile game developers do to increase the chances of their games performing well? So, what can mobile game developers do to increase the chances of their games performing well?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Post-COVID investment flows in Social and mobile gaming emerged as one of the best performing sectors during coronavirus, and the ensuing influx of investment will likely impact companies large and small. Access all of our previous predictions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Summarizing an entire year of mobile gaming while providing predictions for what is going to happen next is a challenge that we at Deconstructor of Fun undertake every year. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. The Macro-Level View As we know, 2020 was a year of unprecedented growth for mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. Ilkka’s words often portray Supercell’s game development model as straightforward and simple to carry out. After all, Supercell is our beacon of hope.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We're talking about massive layoffs across the tech industry and gaming in particular, new mobile game studios from NetEase and Nintendo, Playtika's latest earnings report, the dramatic and sudden collapse of FTX and the ongoing creator royalty debate going on in the world of NFTs. ? million despite lowest quarter since 2020 ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is the author of the book Freemium Economics and the founder of Mobile Dev Memo , the ultimate growth blog and podcast. It is tempting for mobile games marketing teams to think of 2021 as being dominated by Apple’s impending new privacy policy for iOS, App Tracking Transparency (ATT). Access all of our previous predictions.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 21, 2023

User acquisition has become increasingly challenging for mobile marketers ever since Apple introduced its App Tracking Transpency (ATT) policy in April 2021. With that in mind, mobile marketers should focus on identifying better ways to push monetization opportunities to their existing audiences.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Futureplay, the developer behind Merge Garden, was acquired by Plarium in August of 2021. Merge Dragons never strayed from merge mechanics and exclusively contained puzzles that players could solve by merging various items. The core gameplay was true and tested Match-3 puzzle while the meta game was merge inspired.

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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. Ideas for themes can come from anywhere and you can see that with hypercasual developers who keep iterating on the same gameplay or leverage popular social phenomenons.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Mobile developers look up their fake AppStore accounts and download with excitement wondering what the new game could be. A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. Playing levels awards stars , which are used to earn coins in the Puzzle Pass. The Twist: The Puzzle Pass.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Today I'm reinstalling my development computer, so I can't do much programming. Compiling Godot takes increasingly more time, so I guess a new setup is one more way to accelerate Godot development. and nowadays I enjoy developing Godot more than anything else. Developing games is difficult. Motivation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Follow Nebo on everything mobile growth > @eniac W hen AppTrackingTransparency was introduced, many predicted the doom and gloom situation and the death of mobile gaming. It's no secret that Match 3 is the most competitive mobile gaming genre. Written by Nebojsa Radovic and originally published on his Medium page.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Role-Playing Games on Mobile The RPG market is a high risk, high reward genre walled by a robust entry barrier. A smaller studio can still build a very healthy and sustainable business with a very smart approach to content development.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

We need to release regular updates: more content, more events, faster, and higher quality. Everyone knows about them, but not all developers pay real attention to them. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

This was the date that the social games giant had acquired a relatively unknown Finnish developer, Small Giant. 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. Wooga GmbH. Wooga GmbH.

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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. 75% of developers view the cloud as pivotal to their success in 2023. Highlights.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world. By embracing and encouraging gamers’ motivation to collect and to cultivate, the card battling genre has become a proven formula for mobile companies and studios to maximize their revenue.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. Well, one of the biggest trends in mid-core games is growing your business on mobile and beyond. In 2021 the Mid-core category continued to dominate on the revenue side, bringing 45% of all In-App Purchase (IAP) revenues in mobile markets (excluding China, Japan, and Korea).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 26, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. Netflix games will start on mobile. Next Games has soft-launched Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales, a free-to-play story-driven puzzle adventure RPG. They will not be limited to mobile, however.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

To this day, game developers continue to blend already existing genres, sub-genres, and types in new and surprising ways to provide players with more options. Players typically interact with the environment and other characters in order to solve puzzles containing clues to advance in the gameplay. Which gaming genres should you choose?

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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. This analysis is written by two unassuming Township players, Buğrahan Göker and Michail Katkoff.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 23, 2020

This post is written by Eric Seufert , a strategy consultant and the owner of Mobile Dev Memo In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of events, including a great battle, foretold to lead to the death of a number of great figures and gods, natural disasters and the submersion of the world in water.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A few weeks ago, the Clash Quest team announced that they were going to discontinue the development , after a soft launch of 16 months. Clash Quest is Supercell’s most recent attempt at disrupting the puzzle category through titles like Smash Land , Spooky Pop, and Hay Day Pop , each of them trying to achieve success from different angles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

This makes RPGs the third largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.4Bn) and Puzzle ($4.5Bn) games. Idle RPGs (not to be confused with Idle games) and Puzzle RPGs were the biggest growing sub-genres in 2019. Nevertheless, Puzzle RPGs look to be at their peak while Idle RPG revenues have already declined.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Meta’s venture into the metaverse coincided with Apple’s privacy changes and resulted in the loss of the platform as the number one ad channel for mobile games. We’re seeing a 5 to 10% decline in mobile in Western countries. King is growing on mobile while their competitors are in trouble. And the same happened to Metaverse.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. 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”.

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