Game Development News

MARCH 23, 2023

Mike Pappas, CEO of Modulate, explains how automated voice moderation has a natural advantage over methods of combatting abuse through text

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He fell in love with driving games like C3 Racing, Forza, Turismo, and Project Scars. He chuckles when he recalls his first encounter with C3 Racing, “I remember the controller shook and I was so startled I dropped it. From then on the racing games took a back seat and all we did was play Tekken at that arcade.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 25, 2019

Welcome to the third episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile. SuperScale = Growth Partner.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Needless to say, Demographics like age, race, ethnicity, gender, income, education, and employment provide valuable insights that guide game development companies during the process of creating, marketing, and maintaining games. of mobile gamers, while people older than 45 years make up nearly a third.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With so little room to grab attention and inform their players about new content, all three games make sure they feature updates and new content in their title and description. In a video by Knowledge by Marcus , they explained that there’s not enough content for the number of people searching for Roblox on YouTube.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. From action and arcade to adventure, sports, racing, and strategy genres, we offer tailored solutions across consoles. Is it well-defined? 05 RISINGMAX INC. Rising Max Inc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. On the bright side, the lack of investments in new content will lead to an unanswered demand in a couple of years when the market turns around once again. The inflation in EU and US is above 3% today. The outlook for game subscription services is grim.

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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. billion on content for a subscription service that was not growing.

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Instead, I want to explore the role of a gaming CMO in setting teams up for success and the risk that some leaders may actually be incentivising a race to the bottom. Investing only in ads that reach and appeal to the same narrow audiences but are undifferentiated in mobile gaming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Consumer, however, has been less consistent – including the painfully visible retreat from the mobile phone OS market amid the declining relative importance of PCs. Game Pass is easily the most aggressive bundle in the business because it gives away top-tier premium content on launch day.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Now she builds strategy for and sources leading-edge content for Oculus, lectures on the intersection of art and code for UCSC in Games and Playable Media, wrangles a monthly column on science-fiction in videogames over at Amazing Stories and writes about how all these app-driven superpowers are going to change the human race.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In addition, if the game is not evolving or developing quickly enough for players, live operations to keep up with content demands could require further investments. Ludovic is an International Growth Consultant at Google who advises mobile gaming clients on their international expansion strategies.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 4, 2023

As one might have expected, we can see several oldies on our list: Bridge Race , Going Balls , Race Master 3D – Car Racing and Car Games 3D: Car Racing. 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

JANUARY 24, 2022

Summarizing an entire year of mobile gaming while providing predictions for what is going to happen next is a challenge that we at Deconstructor of Fun undertake every year. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. The Macro-Level View As we know, 2020 was a year of unprecedented growth for mobile 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. The game puts players in charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. Perfect for mobile and small game development.

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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

JUNE 26, 2023

You can check out one of our past newsletter articles (read: A race to the bottom on creator royalties? 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. discussing it in more detail.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

From national calendar days to religious holidays, seasonal events are a great way for mobile games to find new and exciting ways to drive player engagement. We’ve updated the blog post with new seasonal event implementation examples and best practices for introducing seasonal events into your mobile game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

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. So, here are our tips on how to reuse and loop your content the right way: 1. Plan content looping during the feature design phase.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

Role-playing Games (RPGs) Role-playing games are one of the most immersive and content-rich games one can play. This video game genre includes sub-genres like racing, combat, team and sports-based fighting game. Racing Games In racing games, the players take part in a racing competition.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

Indeed that’s the expectation for almost any game, that the majority of players can participate and experience most of the content (at least in theory). One is the average ARPU LTV for mobile F2P is close - $87 in 2022 ( Statista ). Another is that an individual microtransaction can go all the way down to $0.29.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. It grew the market and became bigger than Hearthstone on mobile. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

GoPractice is also highly recommended by some of the top mobile games companies, which is how I originally got connected with Oleg. Here’s how I view data-driven culture In my opinion, most teams working on mobile games don’t fully use the potential of data. This was no surprise as there was little content in the game.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. #1 Mobile gaming market is close to what an economist would call a perfectly competitive market (except for some categories such card and fighting games - looking at you, Herthstone and Contest of Champions).

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is a guest post by Vinayak Sathyamoorthy , Group Product Manager at Reddit, an ex-Zynga Product Manager and an avid mobile gamer. The gaming industry has gone through a few interesting turns in that time, but by and large the biggest force in mobile free-to-play of late has been power User Acquisition teams. Vinayak Sathyamoorthy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Nintendo’s Dr. Mario World was a fresh take but just like most of the publisher’s games on mobile, it sadly tanked. Western casual games category broken down into genres and sub-genres. This leads to having larger than average team sizes.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’m reminded a bit of those mobile games where the first 10 minutes is like this absolutely incredible looking and sounding thing, and then you’re sort of “dropped off” into the same old 2015 gacha clone looking thing. He can save the world or he can just spend all his time doing kart racing. That would be bad.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For the past decade, we’ve looked at mobile gaming as the driver of gaming growth, both in terms of new players and revenue generated. If you want to truly understand what is happening in the gaming market from Console to Mobile down to cloud games, AR, and Web3, do listen to the full conversation below. year-on-year increase.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. We also reached out to content creators from the Godot community and got two very nice videos from FinePointCGI and Bramwell covering what Godot 4.0 In this article we highlight some of the new features we are most excited about.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

We look into the interesting world of creator royalties and whether games, especially those in the blockchain space, will join the race to the bottom. So, I think it’s safe to assume that games will not join this race to the bottom and will try to stay afloat through free mints and the creator royalties accrued from the secondary market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet something has changed in the last years as mobile free to play has matured and become global. Many of the new games that are gaining ground are coming from developers like Lilith , Firecraft Studios (Matchington Mansion), FunPlus (King of Avalon, Guns of Glory) and IGG (Lords Mobile). During the past year Lilith has been on a roll!

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