PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Let’s find out how KAYAC approaches development of Hypercasual games in 2024; what their expectations from the market are; which best practices for game development they can point out; and what tips for adapting games for the Western region they have to offer. Developers can choose the best conditions from many publishers.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game design software does play a pivotal role in bringing the digital world to life, which allows game developers and designers to create immersive and engaging experiences. However, it becomes difficult for a developer to choose one software from many. The world of game design is a captivating landscape brimming with possibilities.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 7, 2020

Our project went a long way to be where it is now, it started as a simple little game on one of the Game Jams in Poland, then went through rapid prototyping stage, where we created mobile and PC version, but then decided to stick to Nintendo Switch. Development. Optimization.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Building hyper-casual games is a great way to get into game development. With their short cycles and simple gameplay, crafting a hyper-casual title means you can learn important skills across game design and monetisation, which you’ll need for success in the mobile games industry. Prototyping, testing and analytics.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The brutal and bloody combat game from Slovenian developer Triternion has already been very successful for the last 4 years on PC. To make everything working smoothly during the massive online battles requires some very specific skills from the developers.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding. The immersive worlds game developers craft will get players hooked and keep them coming back for more. What is Unreal?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is the author of the book Freemium Economics and the founder of Mobile Dev Memo , the ultimate growth blog and podcast. It is tempting for mobile games marketing teams to think of 2021 as being dominated by Apple’s impending new privacy policy for iOS, App Tracking Transparency (ATT). Access all of our previous predictions.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

If you’re an avid gamer who loves computers, you may be thinking about pursuing a career as a game developer. Game development is a specialized, comparatively small, and lucrative industry. It can help you get entry-level jobs as a computer programmer, web developer, or computer systems administrator. billion in 2023.

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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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Mnenad

JANUARY 14, 2020

I was very excited a year ago as one of my New Year’s resolution of 2019 was to publish my first game that year and it already happened on Januar the 18th (because I’ve developed Countryball Potato Mayhem from August 2018 on). That were the kind of games he used to play on his mobile device back then.  

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Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. We hope it will help you advance further in the journey of 3D game development. Don’t believe it? Keep reading!

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 22, 2020

In 2018, Fortnite and PUBG were tearing up the charts making all us mobile designers look bad. How was a cosmetic-only economy the #1 revenue generator on mobile? 2019 continued this trend, with PUBG Mobile still being the #1 game on mobile. While some developers (ex. Let’s go through each in order.

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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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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. By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

This consumable item mechanic is the same in Squad Busters, which speaks of knowledge sharing between the teams. This seems to be Supercell's solution to avoid gacha mechanics in upcoming games. Tap-to-move also creates an awkward and unnatural movement system on mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

History Most people in the western hemisphere may not be familiar with Call of Duty: Online (CoDO), a project kicked off in 2010 and announced in 2012 as a partnership between Activision and Tencent, with Activision in charge of development and Tencent as the Chinese publisher of record.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Truthfully, no one has ever done this well, and during development I often reminded myself of the old joke about how you don’t need to be fast to avoid getting eaten by a bear – you just need to be faster than the person next to you. The hardest part of a 4X to design is the ending. Thus, Paradox grand strategy games follow this model.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Source: Mobile Gaming Industry Analysis for H1 2019. Most definitely, this will mean decreasing returns per hypercasual developer. Archero had a soft-launch period of 2-3 months, and probably the same amount of time before that for prototyping and design iteration. While writing this post, this news article went live.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The big change that always gets mentioned when going from Civ 4 to Civ 5 is one-unit-per-tile (1UPT), which is interesting as 1UPT is purely a mechanical – as opposed to thematic – change. The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. And they will soon launch their new mobile shooter called Catalyst's Black. They get to a prototype level.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

For the longest time, I've wanted to make a gay mobile game, but I was unsure how to get my queer politics past Apple and Google's anti-sexuality censors. However, the photorealistic 3D graphics of my past games are too heavy and slow for a mobile browser, so I need to make a 2D game even though I've neglected my 2D visual skills.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Early this year the Turkish mobile startup Dream Games has raised $50 million in new funding ($57.5M Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. total funding), despite having only soft-launched its first game, Royal Match. It made $5.1

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

Game developers and artists can also use AI upscaling to enhance a game’s graphics and image quality. Although humans still produce the finished design, AI art speeds up design stages like brainstorming, idea generation, conceptualization, prototyping, and client pitches. Art Many new artists are experimenting with AI art.

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