PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The brutal and bloody combat game from Slovenian developer Triternion has already been very successful for the last 4 years on PC. Memory limitations meant we needed to rework a lot of the materials from the PC version just to get everything in”, says Dunn. “We So, we had to be smart and make everything dynamic.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Independent game development studio, Norsfell , was founded in 2013 to forge new genres that bring people together. 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.”

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Emerging Best Free Game Development Software Now, let’s dive into the free tools the best Game App Development Companies use to make their games. Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Facebook used games for growth and discarded them quickly as it didn’t need them anymore. The platform killed the booming gaming business by handicapping the distribution channels used to grow our games. I believe that mobile games could be facing the same deliberate death-by-a-platform as games Facebook suffered a decade ago.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

Further, with publishing program’s like Epic’s , even very expensive games can be funded through a publishing partner. 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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

on Xbox Game Pass Profitability Last week Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer spoke at The Wall Street Journal ’s Tech Live conference saying that Xbox Game Pass is already profitable and accounts for around 15 percent of Xbox content and services revenue. We’re seeing incredible growth on PC.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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. Summarizing: a professional well experienced with PC, with first-hand experience leading a team/company.

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Game Errors

APRIL 5, 2023

Ever since it joined Kabam’s mobile gaming lineup, Marvel: Contest Of Champions has provided a mix of good and bad for its legions of players. Some players have reported that their game is crashing when they attempt to access certain features or events. Why does Marvel: Contest of Champions keep crashing on PC?

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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. All in all, Ilkka’s yearly blog is an inspirational and quite sincere vision of the top brass of a major mobile games company.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 19, 2024

Growth in Cross-platform Gaming Cross-platform games have become more popular than ever. This implies that players switch between mobile, PC, and console. Well, this implies that developers have had to work more on cross-platform games, ensuring they deliver seamless cross-platform experiences.

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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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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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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Meet the panelists: Sande Chen is a writer and game designer with over 15 years of experience in the game industry. She is the author of the award-winning Game Development Essentials: Mobile Game Development and the Official GameSalad Guide to Game Development.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

More importantly, it showed audiences worldwide that this 1400-year-old board game can be glamorous, resulting in over 3.2 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 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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Game Daily

APRIL 13, 2023

Life skills The survey found that parents with children aged 3-8 are 89% more likely to co-game in order to better understand the content of the games their kids are playing. Parents of teens are 46% more likely to play games with their kids. Mostly though, people play mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

While it’s fun and entertaining to follow Epic’s crusade on Apple, I think it’s equally important to discuss how these court battles impact tens of thousands of game developers around the World. Consider it an appetizer to the content. Below you’ll find our conversation on YouTube and podcast. Just think about it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 1, 2020

Games services providers have evolved along with the games industry. Today, especially on the mobile gaming side, the market has matured over the past 10 years with many of the key vendor categories having well entrenched and well capitalized players. According to Sensor Tower, the game achieved 5.7M

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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. ?

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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. Also, keep in mind that you can find the game on the Steam and Epic Games gaming platforms.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

Seasoned executives, developers, designers, and many more made the move to blockchain games. Although most of them come from the F2P mobile sector, the industry has observed professionals transitioning from the PC/console space to focus on developing AAA-quality blockchain games.

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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. Game design for mobile, web, console, or PC We help our clients to reach as high as possible and expand their audience with cross-platform game development services.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

The number of people paying to play games will grow by more than 7.3% Mobile gaming is dominant across the world, with an expectation of 2.8 PC gamers make up 892 million people, followed by 629 million console players. Mobile gaming saw year-on-year revenue growth of just 0.8% globally to 1.47

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Publicity for a mobile game is out of the question, it's too expensive. You can get a publisher, but most mobile publishers are scammers. If they tell you they will gladly publish your game, don't believe them! As an example, if your game has 30 levels (missions, scenes, locations, etc), you make 2 or 3 of them.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

It's packed with features and functionality that make it easy to engage with socially (outside of the game), including forums and the ability to share card ideas. These features allow players to change the card meta and contribute to the ongoing development of the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. Most of the publishing deals fall flat when the published game succeeds (assuming the game is F2P). These games could be a console, pc, or mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Hearthstone’s revenue has always been driven by new content releases, but the most recent content hasn’t been monetizing as well as the 2018 content. Hearthstone’s recent sets have also caused balance problems for the game, and in the time it takes to adjust, players churn at higher rates.

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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

JUNE 6, 2022

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. These missions can be released progressively to provide a reason for players to come back regularly to the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The brief and high-intensity game loop makes it well attuned to mobile gaming tempo, and it’s one of the reasons why the game is so damn engaging. This has made core CCG fans passionately receive it as a refreshing experience, although retaining them for a long time may put a lot of pressure on the flow of new content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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. It’s no secret that lots of people who work in mobile game development play PC and console games in their free time.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

While these are not directly gaming-related news, both Meta and FTX were significant players in the gaming ecosystem. 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. They’ve divested from games.

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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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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

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. The game requires significant planning ahead.

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Game Daily

JULY 14, 2023

Engagement: 75% of players play at least four hours of games a week, across all platforms. 64% use mobiles – 12% only play on smartphones. 45% play on a laptop or PC. Ratings : Among parents with children who play games, 84% say they are aware of ESRB ratings and 74% regularly make use of the ratings system.

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