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. As it does not solely rely on user-level data, it’s significantly more resilient to ecosystem changes and data gaps than attribution.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 7, 2020

Toys for which you had to build a track yourself and then simply put them on it, and race with your friends just by pressing a button! You can play campaign mode with your friends or/and with AI, build custom tracks and then race on them in the party mode! It all started when we were just kids playing slot cars toys, do you know those?

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Having initially launched back in 2006, the social gaming platform now boasts over 30 million games (what they call experiences), 52 million daily active users , and over 12 million creators worldwide. There are thousands of Roblox gameplay videos on YouTube and other social platforms, with new ones rolling out each day.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The importance of app stores as a discovery platform has been on a steep decline ever since Apple’s App Store received its design update in 2017 , which puts emphasis on editorial over what users actually care about. We predicted that we would see heavy pushes to off-platform payments in 23 years.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Nancy is the Head of User Acquisition and Growth Strategy at East Side Games , a publisher known for IP-driven hit games such as “The Office,” “Trailer Park Boys,” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Ludovic is an International Growth Consultant at Google who advises mobile gaming clients on their international expansion strategies.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. The console business is not growing in terms of audience and time spent on platforms. We just never thought that the impact would be so quickly visible in the data. The inflation in EU and US is above 3% today.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 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. In fact, Hypercasual games alone made up for ~45% of 2019’s total download volume across all mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. It truly shows how data driven Uber.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. In this analysis, data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This prediction post is sponsored by PlayerWON™ , the only engagement and monetization platform for free-to-play PC and console games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. It was only a matter of time before Call of Duty would find its feet on mobile. So is COD Mobile dead?

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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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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. And… that’s what I did professionally for almost 10 years: released many games on different platforms, working for multiple companies. Once I consider I have enough data, I move on to analysis. Which are its verbs?

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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. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

. “What started as a thesis project at the University of Southern California became a game development journey encompassing VR hardware and software development, to gaming for VR consumer platforms, and even dabbling in location-based VR experiences before COVID hit,” shared Silkin.

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