Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. Currently in charge of systems design at Trailmix. Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. 2020 was a very good year for mobile games. Previously at King and Glu. It made $5.1

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2021

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. SlotoStories Get Me a Price in Slotomania allows the player to customize their machines and make the game look like theirs.

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Jaunty Bear Games

OCTOBER 9, 2022

In addition to modern takes on classic games, many companies are creating entirely new content based on retro themes. For example, indie game developer DrinkBox Studios recently launched Guacamelee!, which combines luchador wrestling with platforming gameplay mechanics from older titles such as Super Mario Bros.,

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

This is a completely different beast from a shooter.” “ Mordhau at its core has always been about melee combat”, says Jonathan Dunn, Game Designer at Triternion. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small. Completely in control of every movement and strike.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

Hyper-casual games are simple, easy-to-play games that have become increasingly popular in recent years. With the rise of smartphones and mobile gaming, hyper-casual games have exploded in popularity due to their accessibility and addictiveness.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Still, they all provide a similar service: they produce graphics and animation for games, web applications, and other digital content. 2D and 3D are the two main types of game art studios because each has its specialties and challenges. What do Game Art Studios do? Casual Mobile Art. 3D environment.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 29, 2020

As a case study, consider Supercell, one of the first to integrate battle passes into their mobile games, and such integrations led to both success (Clash of Clans) and failure (Clash Royale). Note: Both games saw ~20% decline in downloads during this period. Why did battle pass design succeed in one game and not the other?

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iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

In addition, this version makes it possible for developers to construct 2D games that can be played on a variety of platforms, including gaming consoles, personal computers, and mobile devices. Extensive Asset Store The Asset Store in Unity offers a diverse selection of downloadable content that may be used to improve games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This game, which combines Match-3 core with merge progression originally launched globally in the second half of 2020. Just when the market was becoming overheated with the lockdowns and merge mechanics were the all-new rage among the players. T his kind of approach would be fairly outdated in the modern mobile game market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Guest post by Alexander Devyaterikov , Producer at Belka Games In today's gaming world, it's not enough to just have a good game. 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.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity is considered the best solution for mobile game development. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects. Pros of Unity Game Engine Advanced cross-platform interoperability allows for games to be launched on all significant mobile, VR, desktop, console, and TV platforms, besides the Web.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 4, 2023

Players can also unlock various masks with unique abilities and customize their character through the in-game shop. Thus, when every pixel of the old games seems to be explored up and down, DLC (downloadable content) might become a good option to sugarcoat things.

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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. AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. Major franchises claimed three of the top downloaded title spots worldwide last month: Call of Duty Mobile, Mario Kart Tour, and PUBG Mobile.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The mobile game industry is the most demanding industry for the past few years. Though there are millions and millions of mobile game apps available on the Play/App Store, the game companies and developers are interested in building more and more games. The secret of Success Behind the Game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

For most players (including payers) the Pass is primarily retention and an engagement mechanism. It’s also important to understand that Passes are not a straightforward feature to balance that can be applied to any game without risks. I get THIS MANY CONTENT for this little money!? You’ve got a deal!

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The Knights of Unity

MAY 6, 2020

Hyper-casual games do not have a story, they have little content, and yet it is one of the most addictive genres in the history of gaming. Hyper casuals dominated the mobile games market in 2017 and they are still growing in popularity. They include short rounds and maximally simplified mechanics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

Both of the authors are true fans of Command & Conquer franchise and both of the authors understand all to well how hard it is to ship a hit mobile game. content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. This has to be a major disappointment to EA Mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Cookie Run is has some imporessive traction in the Western markets, which may potentially turn this game into a proper worldwide hit. The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world. What was Cookie Run: Kingdom ’s secret to success?

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They limit themselves to mechanical testing and don’t raise a red flag if a feature “doesn’t play right” or breaks the gameplay flow of adjacent features. For example, if our USP (unique selling point) is a new feature, then its flow really does have to be “invented” using bold design experiments.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

The minute a supercell game is released, a thousand slack notifications go off. Mobile developers look up their fake AppStore accounts and download with excitement wondering what the new game could be. It’s like this because each new game has a history of defining a genre. The game responds quickly to input.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This guest post is written by Gordon Rowe , an experienced product leader that has spent 10 years building and operating free to play games on mobile, web, and consoles. Proven : The first merge games in the app stores were the immensely popular 2048 and the game design darling Triple Town (also by Neskin).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

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: The State of Arcade Games While the Arcade genre only accounts for 7.5% In fact, Arcade games alone make up for ~45% of 2019’s total download volume across all mobile gaming genres.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In order to achieve that goal, the game had to overcome two major challenges: it had to be free-to-play and it had to appeal to the Chinese audience. Given the lack of copyright enforcement, all western games were pirated, making premium games a losing proposition.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2020

So without further ado… First, a quick overview of the RPG genre Role Playing Games (RPGs) have generated nearly $3Bn in in-app purchase revenues year-to-date in the Western markets. This makes RPGs the third largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.4Bn) and Puzzle ($4.5Bn) games. Straightforward content production.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Sky Mavis team knows all this, which is why there are several new developments in the pipeline: a F2P version with (potentially) greater distribution, land, user-generated content, and more. Game Loops and Systems Overview Axie Infinity’s game design falls under the “Turn-based RPG” subgenre, according to GameRefinery’s taxonomy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 20, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. The $3Bn Match & Blast Category Match & Blast games is the biggest sub-category on mobile with $3Bn in net revenues in 2018 and a year-on-year growth of revenues at whopping 28%.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Additionally, the modern backend can implement rendering methods , such as forward clustered, mobile, and more in the future (such as deferred clustered, cinematic, etc.). and is intended to run on very old PC hardware as well as most older (still working) mobile phones. Creating games this way is, as a result, more challenging.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

As this video talks about, as players play more and more games, it becomes more difficult for them to find this sense of wonder in new games – even more so when they become game developers themselves. Setting that up properly is an effort in storytelling, a discipline all its own distinct from game design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A 10-year gaming industry veteran, leading game development teams focused on free-to-play titles across mobile and PC. Worked on hit mobile titles such as Sims Freeplay, Need for Speed No Limits, Subway Surfers, and Sims Mobile. Written by Christopher Brousseau. The Arclight Booster pack, available for $19.99

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile. Growing twice as fast as the whole RPG genre.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A 10-year gaming industry veteran, leading game development teams focussed on free-to-play titles across mobile and PC. Worked on hit mobile titles such as Sims Freeplay, Need for Speed No Limits, Subway Surfers and Sims Mobile. Written by Christopher Brousseau. The Arclight Booster pack, available for $19.99

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. Source: Mobile Gaming Industry Analysis for H1 2019. Most definitely, this reinforces the above mentioned design evolution - more Hybridcasual! Make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. The big change that always gets mentioned when going from Civ 4 to Civ 5 is one-unit-per-tile (1UPT), which is interesting as 1UPT is purely a mechanical – as opposed to thematic – change.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

This might have some very light spoilers, but… honestly, one of my main criticisms is that there isn’t much to spoil in this game, at least not in the 27 or so hours that I played. In JRPGs, when the battles are fun, it’s actually usually that the party-building / character configuration mechanics are good.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Some content, I just record and publish. And drives games like Fortnite.

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