Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

Last week Tencent and Pokemon unveiled Pokemon Unite , a jointly-developed cross-platform MOBA for smartphones and Nintendo Switch. Tencent has various internal game development studios, but two stand out in particular as the most successful to date: TiMi and Quantum/Lightspeed.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? 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. ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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Grumpy Gamer

JUNE 26, 2018

It goes with "making games". 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. We did a lot of things right when building Thimbleweed Park.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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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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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

It’s been five whole years since Game Dev Tycoon released on Steam. Time for a brief illustrated trip through the game’s history. Back in 2011, my brother Daniel and I (we are both software developers) decided that we wanted to try to make a game. Game Dev Tycoon started, as many games do, on a single piece of paper.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis is written by my friend, Buğrahan Göker who focused on 4X games, and Yours Truly. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Strategy games also represent nearly a half of all Mid-Core revenues.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Written by Enrico D'Angelo Enrico was VP of Product at Activision Publishing running the Free to Play game portfolio and is currently a VP of Product at Roblox. The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project.

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