Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. Data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets.

Puzzle 52

Puzzle Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile 52

Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

It supports multi-platform publishing on Web, IOS, and Android. After understanding some of the future plans from the game team, I decided to start over and create a guide from the perspective of code-writing and logic mechanisms. The previous article briefly mentioned this entry script named init.ts.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

And… that’s what I did professionally for almost 10 years: released many games on different platforms, working for multiple companies. Using that list, I move to a broad research phase, in which I check lots of sources for gathering data. Once I consider I have enough data, I move on to analysis.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 24, 2023

A central location to come home to After launching You Suck At Parking, Happy Volcano wanted a central home for their analytics data. David Prinsmel, Happy Volcano’s game director, and their data engineer, Rahul Jani, found that Player Warehouse let them be more flexible around storing and processing their data.

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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. Kress said that the current’s market’s woes were “all Apple’s fault”. “We

Games 59

Games Cross platform Mobile Mobile 59

Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie and references global figures. And as always, we’ll let the data back us up. With data from the latest completed quarter included, it can be seen that the Q3 2019 QoQ growth rate is back to Q4 2018 levels. But first, a quick recap.

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Data Advertising Studios Mobile Gaming 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. But please keep in mind that Hearthstone is cross-platform title making likely over 80% of its revenue on PC.

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Mobile Mobile Cross platform Puzzle 52

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Key issues covered in this panel discussion include: Biggest mistakes to avoid Creatively led vs. data led companies… and also vs. technology led? Impact of data in games Hiring for cultural fit Initial focus post funding Why you need to panic! We'll also talk about kind of this difference between creative versus data driven companies.

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Games Point and Click Engine Engineering 52

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

They boast industry’s largest in-app video ad network, a robust mobile ad mediation platform, and a data-driven user acquisition platform. Early revenue per download data shows that it outperforms other Classic Match-3 titles and is as strong as full Puzzle & Decorate games, suggesting that players like the direction.

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Puzzle Mobile Mobile Mechanics 69

Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

Meanwhile, others use AI to analyze data and derive new artistic ideas for their creations. Although humans still produce the finished design, AI art speeds up design stages like brainstorming, idea generation, conceptualization, prototyping, and client pitches. This no-code collaborative platform allows you to feed it over 30 images.

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