AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Now approaching its 10th anniversary, Norsfell has grown from a small startup developing mobile games into a studio with nearly 40 team members who helped launch the award-winning multi-platform game, “ Tribes of Midgard.” Independent game development studio, Norsfell , was founded in 2013 to forge new genres that bring people together.

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Greenheart Games

MARCH 8, 2018

Inspired by the mobile UI, we’ve revamped the review screen with now 100% more star-power. Swap and late-game PC. We have also added a new late-game PC image to the game. – Mods can now add their own settings UI to the game’s settings-panel via a call to `GDT.addSettingsTab(title, content);` ( documentation ).

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Shooters are the fifth largest genre on mobile at $2.1B in net revenues during 2020, while holding the top games on mobile. All this is fueled by some of the heaviest live content operations in the industry. To keep players coming back each season, each event -- there needs to be gameplay impacting content for players to enjoy.

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are the system requirements for Apex Legends: Processor: Core i3 6th Gen/AMD FX-4350 or Better RAM: 6GB Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640/Radeon HD 7730 Disk Space: 22 GB+ Operating System: Windows 7 or higher After knowing the required specifications, you can see that a PC with basic hardware can run Apex Legends without any problem.

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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. It’s again taking a super simple addictive core game but actually pairing it with a simplified progression mechanic and some amount of live operations. Missed a previous newsletter?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

In the mobile free to play area, additional capital also means the ability to fund long payback games at scale (e.g., On the mobile side, development budgets are half or even much less than on HD (console + PC platforms) and a UA budget of even as little as $3M may be enough for the majority of mobile games to compete with bigger publishers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

For a quick and general introduction of the game, it’s a player vs player only CCG game, which limits your cards to only 10 per deck, each game is less than 4 minutes, and it uses a very simple poker-like betting mechanic to keep things interesting. However, Marvel Snap has simplified this mechanic to make it even more accessible.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 12, 2020

More recently, as Supercell’s revenue and profitability have declined over the past few years, more questions have been raised about Supercell’s approach and even their value as a mobile games company. Do either of these companies have the potential to be the most valuable mobile gaming company in the world?

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This isn’t as true or a high priority in PC and console games. It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. For Among Us VR, a camera above the map facing down (like in the PC version), playing in third person, wouldn’t have worked. Start with the fantasy.

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Mnenad

JANUARY 14, 2020

That were the kind of games he used to play on his mobile device back then.   I don’t remember anymore how it came to the decision to make it Countryball themed, but I guess the sheer number of possibilities, both in game mechanics and design choices, have led to that decision.  

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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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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. Several of the industry’s top IPs have received high-fidelity ports that have been successful in bringing core franchise players to the mobile format.

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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. The loss of depth in gameplay mechanics is compensated with a higher weight of the poker-like mindgames. Source: Data.ai

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2021

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

For most players (including payers) the Pass is primarily retention and an engagement mechanism. Additionally, the Pass-related quests are great to foster horizontal content exploration , by directing players to engage with specific game modes or incentivizing them to acquire, play with and upgrade all the characters.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2020

In 2018, Fortnite and PUBG were tearing up the charts making all us mobile designers look bad. How was a cosmetic-only economy the #1 revenue generator on mobile? 2019 continued this trend, with PUBG Mobile still being the #1 game on mobile. How were they getting away with terrible control schemes?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Yet they are not that difficult to get greenlight because of the multi-billion-Dollar success of the Honour of Kings and League of Legends (PC). And it’s also not that difficult to get the talent to build these games as we developers want to make MOBAs because we love playing them on PC. So what happened to Pokemon Unite?

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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

MAY 20, 2020

Mobile developers look up their fake AppStore accounts and download with excitement wondering what the new game could be. The match 3 success trifecta generally consists of: a fun core match mechanic a good metagame with a clean sense of progression a new feature or innovation that brings something different to the space.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. While today's Game of War is little more than a profitable legacy title, the game was pivotal to growing the 4X sub-genre to what it is today - a $5B sub-genre on mobile in the Western markets. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Making Call of Duty free Back when CoDO was conceived, consoles didn’t officially exist in China, AAA Mobile gaming was not yet a ‘thing’ and PC gaming mostly happened at Internet Cafes, where gamers paid to sit in front of computers to play, watch videos, eat, smoke and chat.

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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. And if our game’s USP is graphics, then raising the bar for ordinary assets and continuing to refine old content could be an important business decision.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

Beyond study and instrumentation, there is instinct.” - Annorax* Creating a new F2P mobile game is riskier than it’s ever been. The majority of F2P mobile publishers are prioritizing the improvement of live operations processes for existing products over the creation of new products to generate more reliable revenue and to control costs.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Content Although the Deferred Rendering technique was officially proposed at GDC in 2004, nearly 20 years have passed, and there are still many people who don’t know the details, especially those who are new to 3D programming. GBuffer Content To complete lighting processing, some basic information is essential, such as.

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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. Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0,

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Mobile games market predictions in 2022 Michail Katkoff, Savage Game Studios, and Deconstructor of Fun. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Coin Master truly innovated on a core Casino mechanic by making random chance just one block in the core loop, not the only block. Expect more acquisitions, new game releases and revenue diversification efforts (also outside mobile games) from Playtika, as it prepares to bulk up before an imminent 2020 IPO.

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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 13, 2021

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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. On the other hand, Axie Infinity mashes familiar turn-based gameplay with a Hearthstone-like card battler mechanic.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It is built for mobile but will first debut on PC. content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. These shifts focus away from Runeterra’s champion mechanics, which also reduces focus on maximizing those champions through deckbuilding.

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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

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 most recently Travis founded Carbonated Inc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Most of the games on blockchain run either on browser or PC. Even the ones that exist on mobile cannot push for mass adoption, because there is no clarity as to how blockchain games are positioned. There are cross platform games that sell items outside the App Store that can be used with the mobile version on the App Store.

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