Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile. And seems it provides a solid ground to start hiring the rest of the team, while they start prototyping their ideas.

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Grumpy Gamer

JUNE 26, 2018

For those of you not in-the-know, FMOD is a cross-platform music and sound middleware engine and it's quite impressive. It was bare bones, but it got the job done for the simple prototypes I was working on at the time. They did have Indie pricing where the first platform was free if your budget was less than $500K.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

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”. He also said there are opportunities in going cross-platform and direct billing. Cross-platform is becoming more important too, he said.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The only true bright spot was Art of War , which despite prototype level production quality has scaled up to over 5M in net revenue a month with no stop in sight! But please keep in mind that Hearthstone is cross-platform title making likely over 80% of its revenue on PC. Card Battlers used to be a sub-genre led by Hearthstone.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

This is what the game looked like as a prototype. We spend a few months in this prototype developing the algorithms on how points are generated, what decisions players make, and how virtual games are reviewed and judged. We took our prototype and ported it from C# to JavaScript.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Post launch, those were replaced by a re-engineered version of “Crew Expendable” from the original MW. The CoD franchise has since embraced some platform aspects with CoD points as a franchise-wide (minus mobile) wallet and Warzone delivering a true game as a service experience using the annual franchise refresh as an engagement lever.

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