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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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Console Game Development As a leading unreal game development studio, we have delivered robust console titles for PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms. Is it well-defined? 05 RISINGMAX 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

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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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

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. Unity is considered the best solution for mobile game development. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects.

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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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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

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. Another MMORPG-related bias was the expectation of continuous content updates, visually different challenges/upgrades and a metagame focused on progression and cosmetic rarity.

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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

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

JANUARY 14, 2020

Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. AppLovin, the US-based ad network turned publisher , which came clear about their investment into Firecraft Studios, acquired Belka. Western casual games category broken down into genres and sub-genres. Top 6 Hidden Object games.

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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. Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios. year-on-year increase. None of them wants to present a down year.

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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).

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