PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

During my stay, I had the incredible opportunity to witness Esio, the founder and program coordinator of Africacomicade , take charge of video game industry discussions at Lagos ComicCon and work the room at the tight-knit Xbox game developer community meetup at Microsoft’s Lagos offices. “In 2023, we leveled up in terms of value.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. Ilkka’s words often portray Supercell’s game development model as straightforward and simple to carry out. After all, Supercell is our beacon of hope.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Let’s explore the Top 10 Mobile Game Development without wasting your precious time! Uncharted – Legacy of Thieves Collection Uncharted – Legacy of Thieves Collection, developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, brings the beloved Uncharted series to Android devices.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

This blog details the service launches, customer sessions, and partner announcements most relevant to game developers. Service Launches Across more than 100 service launches from Amazon Web Services (AWS) at re:Invent, these are the top services for developers to build, run, and grow their games. Watch the re:Invent breakout session.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2023

Maybe you just bought a studio. You probably don’t want to cannibalize the sales of the game you’re already paying to develop, and you don’t want to split the audience. You’ve already got one African Mythology-inspired Action RPG with card mechanics in development, you really don’t need a second slightly-different one.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

Our mission is to bring together the largest players in the gaming market to help smaller developers reach their potential. The majority of blockchain gaming teams, whether they were publishers or developers, were concentrating on decentralization and becoming independent from larger organizations. Read more and get accelerated!

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In looking at recent innovations, a few key takeaways: Platform Expansion: We saw 1 new platform emerge but it was a huge one that now eclipses the other platforms: mobile Genre Expansion: We continue to see genre expansion and as before likely powered by technology enablement (e.g., eSports I think there’s a few of them.

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Game Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Over the years, various attempts to diversify into digital retailing, mobile phones and, most recently, NFTs, have come to nothing. video games and esports revenue in the U.S. game and esports revenues now.” I can make money doing a rev share with a major studio or Hollywood company. to more than $80.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We're talking about massive layoffs across the tech industry and gaming in particular, new mobile game studios from NetEase and Nintendo, Playtika's latest earnings report, the dramatic and sudden collapse of FTX and the ongoing creator royalty debate going on in the world of NFTs. ? million despite lowest quarter since 2020 ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. The antithesis of hypercasual, but Shea said the results mean that a similar approach will now be deployed across all of Voodoo’s studios and games going forwards.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. After all, these games have a fun combat core brutalized by ever increasing timers which just simply don’t work in the modern mobile market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2020

This prediction is written by Giovanni Ducati, who is a Director of Product Management at Scopely and who previously led strategy and finance for Hearthstone and as well as Esports at Activision Blizzard. It all started with “ Dota Auto Chess ”, developed in January ’19 by Drodo Studio as a mod for Dota 2.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

It’s a MOBA done by Tencent’s TiMi Studios. The same studio that is responsible for t he biggest MOBA in the World, Honor of Kings. And it’s also not that difficult to get the talent to build these games as we developers want to make MOBAs because we love playing them on PC. On paper, Pokemon Unite was a slam dunk.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Most mobile gaming companies bet on incremental innovation as their gateway to success. Instead, we think that Clans would have declined even without Clash Royale (albeit at a slower rate) due to the “law of gravity” that all mobile games face after launch and, therefore, that Clash Royale was net positive. Cover image: Talouselämä. #1

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

That means players engage more as a job (often as “scholars” from developing countries who borrow in-game assets from richer “sponsors” or “managers,” who receive a cut of their earnings) than for fun. What’s notable about Sky Mavis is that even though it clearly aims to develop a great game, that’s not its guiding mission.

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