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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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Specialties: – Game Development, Motion Capture, Art Outsourcing, 3D Animation, 2D Animation, VR, Concept Art, and Co-Development. It specializes in producing both 2D & 3D content and has up to 200 employees. Its establishment in 1998 makes Keywords Studio a bonafide old-timer in the gaming industry. Bosi Art Studio.

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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

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. The space is now awash with a variety of publishers, including the aforementioned SayGames, Kwalee and Homa, as well as Rollic (also acquired by Zynga), Popcore and Good Job Games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Hearthstone - the leader of the category since it’s 2014 launch - fell 32% on mobile, struggling to retain players with the same old ranked ladder and struggling to monetize players with new game modes. Hearthstone lost on its home turf Hearthstone is no longer the biggest mobile card game in the US - it has been passed by Yu-Gi-Oh!

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Executive Summary What: MARVEL SNAP is a mobile CCG by Second Dinner, a new studio founded by veterans from Hearthstone. Key strength: Its biggest strength is the gameplay perfectly adapted for mobile. Additionally, about 46% of the total revenue of CCG-Battle games came from China, Japan, and South Korea. Source: Data.ai

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Most mobile gaming companies bet on incremental innovation as their gateway to success. They make marginal improvements to an existing game, hoping to convince enough players to switch to their game. Revenue per Install of Supercell games in their first 12 months after launch (source: Sensor Tower).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Strategy Games in 2020 Strategy games, which are composed out of 7 sub-genres, generated $5B in net revenue during 2020 growing IAP revenues by 21% while the downloads were up 9% year-over-year. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Legends of Runeterra is Riot’s new card game. It is built for mobile but will first debut on PC. The closed beta will start in Q1 of next year, with the game fully launching sometime later in 2020. content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter.

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