Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

It’s Team Fight Tactics for casuals. Clash Royale was reminiscent of some popular Starcraft/Warcraft mods like Nexus Wars or Castle Fight. Furthermore, the acquisition of new studios may also generate additional pressure and competition to achieve. There’s nothing bad in incremental innovation.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Sony holds its exclusive State of Play event every year where they announce new products, intellectual properties and exclusive content for previously released games. It was a 20-minute-long video release that featured a few new trailers and some advertisements for some exclusive Sony content. State of Sony so Far. Like a Dragon Ishin.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Whereas if 90% of the people in a bar were women, the idea is that the environment is more appealing than the actual content. Then someone told me about a game developer in our community who had developed a fighting game based on their comic. Notably, she is an animator on the project Tom the Postgirl at Oopsie Daisies studio.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Astral Clocktower Studios x Game Raven Review. Programming.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Terra Ventura by @LogicalProgres3 is a classic isometric action RPG with a ton of content! It's tagged as relaxing so after checking all these cool but content heavy demos, that might be a good one to chill. HackBerry Studio's @aris_journey is a precision platformer without any platforms. Terra Ventura. The Ballad of Bonky.

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Game Global

MAY 21, 2021

Mails that are coming from studios, vendors, team members, managers, corporate, HR… and loads of notifications coming from the various TMS (translation management system) and tracking tools. All play a crucial part in creating content for the player and ensuring that it’s both relevant and fun.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

During the lockdown years companies grew in headcount to supply content against the massive surge of demand. Studios hoping to release a new title will find it challenging to include these playtime hours in their addressable market, as they nearly always go to these games that engage players on a reliable annual basis.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

The antithesis of hypercasual, but Shea said the results mean that a similar approach will now be deployed across all of Voodoo’s studios and games going forwards. This year is certainly going to be difficult for those studios who relied on the old hypercasual success formula,” SayGames CEO Yegor Vaikhanski told MobileGamer.biz.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

C#: Add support for opening Visual Studio 2022 as external editor ( GH-57609 ). 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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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With that in mind, are mobile game studios missing out on an important opportunity here to boost engagement? When a player wins a game, they are presented with a reward chest full of boosters and the option to move onto a ‘second stage’ against another opponent where they will fight for an even better prize.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!).

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Filmustage

MAY 3, 2021

Photo by Tech Daily / Unsplash Surely all those who more or less follow the film industry have heard of the incredible boom in the field of streaming content. Of course, Netflix broke different records even before the pandemic, but the difficult 2020 has dramatically changed the priorities of many studios. So Warner Bros.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

While there are short term benefits of the delay, the period of transition from deterministic to probabilistic attribution will wreak havoc on studios’ ability to build and maintain sustainable businesses. There aren’t many trillion dollar companies eager to fight for user privacy, after all.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Players usually generate income by winning fights and must use strategic thinking to decide whether to use that currency to buy new characters, upgrade their existing characters, raise their team size limit, or refresh the selection of characters on offer.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Army Commander by Lion Studios. But Army Commander by Lion Studios seemed to nail this on the head. Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Consider it an appetizer to the content. We’ve just finished the first round of this fight, with many more to come. Technologies that Apple will likely be the leader in and which will require content delivery via the App Store. Over 300 studios from Roblox to Wizards of the Coast and from Epic to Ubisoft use Xsolla’s solutions.

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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. The corporate logic rhymes with shareholder interests.

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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. Some players may complete the story faster or slower than this estimate.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2020

Somewhere in the middle of this journey, another Friendly Game studio shared the early results of the new game they had recently launched. Sniper 3D Assassin by Wildlife Studios, like all the other sniper games, suffers from a relatively low long-term retention. LTV was up more than 25 times by the time of the global launch.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

This is where 99.99% of indie developers and studios make their main and most fatal mistake. Paid games (free or with paywalled content) don't make money and banners make so little that it's not even enough for you to survive (even if they get millions of downloads). a fighting game), is animation. Well not really.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

For example, entering Fighting games is nearly suicidal effort. Fighting games install trends are spiky as is the revenue rate. To summarise it, failing to make and scale a high-quality RPG will likely doom a studio. Just look at Hero Wars from a Playrix associated studio. Straightforward content production.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Breaking into the top of the genre requires often massive development investments, an unrivaled content pipeline, and superb live operations - and often an appealing IP. All of the above require serious investments, which increases the risk of building an RPG game for a studio. Fighting Games. Which makes sense.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Immersion is essential to every excellent game, and a 3D visualization is a terrific approach to creating engaging content.

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Game Daily

APRIL 28, 2023

Mirrored Souls (pictured above) from The Bricks Studio is described as a “single-player-co-op puzzle-platformer” in which players control two characters at the same time on a mirrored screen in an attempt to reunite them. ” Drag out content I ask Santos if he is able to define a short game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Nearly all major studios from NetEase to Tencent and Ubisoft are betting on survival-oriented extraction shooters as the next big thing on all platforms. To capture the content of the airdrop, it has to be safely delivered to an extraction point. We’ll see what the studio will do with this approach moving forward.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

Building up a studio and releasing a game is a slow and costly process as Netflix would have to also build their publishing capabilities at the same time. Editor’s Two Cents: Building up a publishing organization and finding the studios to work with is more challenging than you’d think. Plus they have a library of world-class content.

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Game Errors

JUNE 20, 2023

Mortal Kombat 11 has brought plenty of reasons to be in the collection of every fighting game fan. A very rich package of single and multiplayer content is exactly what we expect from the NetherRealm studio, and we can already conclude that this is the most entertaining and mechanically well-rounded Mortal Kombat so far.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

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. 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

JANUARY 17, 2020

Further, recent strategic moves have been made by Voodoo to open “beyond hypercasual” studios. While the diminishing market share and opening of non-hypercasual studios can be seen as Voodoo’s fall from grace, it can also be viewed as Voodoo’s strategic retreat from the hypercasual market.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tower of Fantasy is a new MMORPG developed by Hotta Studio and published by Perfect World and Level Infinite. Although, in these types of games, whenever there is a new content update, there is also a revenue spike, which can be shown in the case of Tower of Fantasy. So, does it live up to the promise? Guild adds up to social features.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. Tencent is known to put several of its studios into a race against each other.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

Snowprint Studios’ Legend of Solgard (published by King) and its refreshing core-game. Almost every studios with top-grossing games tries doing this as well as possible. Heroes: the way E&P scales content. Players get matched with another player’s team to fight an AI-controlled battle against it.

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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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