Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Yet the hard truth is that these initiatives by the platforms have done little except prolonged development cycles and created jobs inside the platforms themselves. By the way, it amazes me that Apple doesn’t even notify developers when they feature their games on App Store. Instead, the indie developers will have three options.

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MARCH 21, 2023

We look into the interesting world of creator royalties and whether games, especially those in the blockchain space, will join the race to the bottom. So, I think it’s safe to assume that games will not join this race to the bottom and will try to stay afloat through free mints and the creator royalties accrued from the secondary market.

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Game Refinery

JULY 27, 2022

In this blog post, we would like to highlight some examples of how Pride showed on mobile during this year’s Pride month. Zooba: Zoo Battle Royale Games (Wildlife Studios). Wildlife Studios kicked the month off by announcing “ Faye ,” the first transgender character in Zooba: Zoo Battle Royale Games. Conclusion.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 25, 2019

Welcome to the third episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile. But don’t get it wrong.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. PlayerWON provides gamers with opportunities to earn valuable rewards in exchange for choosing to watch TV-quality brand videos – all while driving engagement, retention, lifetime value and additional revenue for developers. Sports & Racing Games in 2021.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2023

Written by Tiffany Keller , who is a Director of Product and investor with a decade of experience in mobile games across Scopely, Activision Blizzard, Miniclip, and Zynga. Can slow-rolling UGC pack the punch Mediatonic needs to defend the knockout genre on the console before mobile competitors eat their lunch?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But there are hopes for mobile, too as Microsoft announced that it’s building an Xbox mobile gaming store to take on Apple and Google last month. Between hardware costs, bandwidth costs, cost of studios, distribution, and engineering there is no way. Games that are essentially the same on both mobile and console, like Fortnite.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This year even the indie developers have had to admit that App Store discovery is dead. Verdict: CORRECT (1 Point) #3 Paid UA Becomes a Break-Even Game Advertising is a commodity and in a race to the bottom. The streaming behemoth has been focused on publishing mostly canceled mobile games or ported PC titles.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Despite only founding the company in 2019, they’ve worked with a range of Roblox developers and helped publish over 30 successful titles on Roblox. How do they help these developers stand out? Roblox developers don’t just make revenue from in-app purchases. Unlike with mobile games, none of these ads disrupt the gameplay.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. ” Why did you become a solo developer?

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For the past decade, we’ve looked at mobile gaming as the driver of gaming growth, both in terms of new players and revenue generated. Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios. year-on-year increase. None of them wants to present a down year.

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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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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

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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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

By understanding these complexities, we can gain valuable insights into the dynamics shaping the contemporary gaming landscape and explore potential pathways for future growth and development. Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. The inflation in EU and US is above 3% today.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With all due respect to the team, which was spun out of Rovio itself, this deal was a much riskier proposition than being more aggressive with marketing its top titles or investing in talented studios already working on much more easily scalable games with promising KPIs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 15, 2023

This is a much-dreaded question game developers ask themselves at every stage of game development. You have to compete against the giants such as King, Playrix, and Dream who are not just about developing one game, but creating their own IP across multiple games. Who is your target audience?

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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. Supersonic Studios’ success is straightforward to explain.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. 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

Virtual Reality’s Second Surge As the first decade of commercial virtual reality (VR) draws to a close, we caught up with seasoned game developer, Alex Silkin , to discuss the twists, turns, and future of the VR and augmented reality (AR) industry. “Not just in terms of cost, but also in terms of design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Consumer, however, has been less consistent – including the painfully visible retreat from the mobile phone OS market amid the declining relative importance of PCs. It lowers consumer price expectations and drives the devaluation of gaming content in a cannibalistic race to the bottom.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

One is the average ARPU LTV for mobile F2P is close - $87 in 2022 ( Statista ). In the premium game model there is no real concern if the price of an individual premium game goes to 0 on the secondary market because that market is not owned or connected to the developer in any way.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2020

Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. AppLovin, the US-based ad network turned publisher , which came clear about their investment into Firecraft Studios, acquired Belka. The Danish veteran developer rose to new heights with help from its distinctly bold ad creative.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’m reminded a bit of those mobile games where the first 10 minutes is like this absolutely incredible looking and sounding thing, and then you’re sort of “dropped off” into the same old 2015 gacha clone looking thing. But everything else just feels like it needed another 6-12 months of development on it.

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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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