Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Written by Michail Katkoff , games executive and founder of Deconstructor of Fun, and Niek Tuerlings , Senior Game Designer and author of popular game development blog Ludocious.com. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

The developers were able to combine the best of the two previous versions of Castlevania in this game, creating an icon for the ages. Players would navigate through various levels of traps, puzzles, and enemies to claim victory. There are two sections per level and puzzles to solve along the way. The Best GBA Games.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

To this day, game developers continue to blend already existing genres, sub-genres, and types in new and surprising ways to provide players with more options. Players typically interact with the environment and other characters in order to solve puzzles containing clues to advance in the gameplay.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Everyone knows about them, but not all developers pay real attention to them. Another example is the 'Puzzles' collection mechanics, where the player farms puzzle pieces in hard match-3 levels to assemble pictures. So we decided to loop the puzzles at the same time as adding new ones. And I'll tell you why.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

GoPractice is also highly recommended by some of the top mobile games companies, which is how I originally got connected with Oleg. Here’s how I view data-driven culture In my opinion, most teams working on mobile games don’t fully use the potential of data. This decision was made to save development time and test the game earlier.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These efforts were hampered by what it identified as increased market competition, particularly in the puzzle genre. In October, Playtika confirmed it had closed Best Fiends developer Seriously , with nearly all of its 120 staff affected. Rovio has one of the most famous mobile gaming IPs on the planet, Angry Birds.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is a guest post by Vinayak Sathyamoorthy , Group Product Manager at Reddit, an ex-Zynga Product Manager and an avid mobile gamer. The gaming industry has gone through a few interesting turns in that time, but by and large the biggest force in mobile free-to-play of late has been power User Acquisition teams. Vinayak Sathyamoorthy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

However there is a persistent stigma: Asian developers struggle in the West and Western developers struggle in Asia. Yet something has changed in the last years as mobile free to play has matured and become global. This may seem small, but it has been a slowly growing trend which was mostly dominated by domestic developers.

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