OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

Or maybe you want more business development and dealmaking opportunities? February 2024 events and dates TBC Hyper Games Conference Global 2nd – 3rd | Online A business event for mobile game and web3 game industry leaders, connecting game developers with publishers and game services around the world. Find out more.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

This analysis is written by Mladen Dulanovic , Game Lead from Nordeus, and Om Tandon , UX Director at UX Reviewer. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. In other words, as the franchises like NBA postponed their season and lost viewership, so did the NBA mobile game.

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

Initially, the company struggled to compete in a hyper-competitive global market, and in a development sector that lacks sophisticated off the shelf game engines. “While our games were web2 focused, we had been following the development of the NFT market,” says Rössig, who also serves as iCandy’s head of Europe.

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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

APRIL 25, 2022

The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world. By embracing and encouraging gamers’ motivation to collect and to cultivate, the card battling genre has become a proven formula for mobile companies and studios to maximize their revenue.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 23, 2020

Before talking about Game of War, Star Trek Fleet Command and Mobile Strike, let’s talk about this magnificent genre known as Strategy. In fact, Strategy games is the biggest genre on mobile in terms of revenue in the Western markets. They are meant more for trend analysis based on estimations, rather than an exercise in accuracy.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. Well, one of the biggest trends in mid-core games is growing your business on mobile and beyond. The biggest sub-genre on mobile in terms of revenue is 4X Games, which also had a good year. This prediction is written by Michail Katkoff and Buğrahan Göker.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Konstantin Mitrofanov , Chief Product Officer of Belka Games (a studio that has quietly racked up half a billion in revenues) shares practical steps on how they were able to create an organization that is both autonomous and highly successful. Developers build a “proper” new architecture instead of using a time-tested solution.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This analysis is written by UX Reviewer’s Om Tandon and product guy and blog writer Alexandre Macmillan To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun newsletter. Realistic sports with an IP has proven to be successful way to conquer and control market share in mobile sports.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

Back in 2011, my brother Daniel and I (we are both software developers) decided that we wanted to try to make a game. Our intention was to make a game dev simulator where the player would have finer control over the decisions of what to focus on during game development. Time for a brief illustrated trip through the game’s history.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Here are the three things you need to know about ironSource: #1: They’re developing the most robust, data-driven growth engine for mobile games. #2: 2: Their secret sauce is closing the monetization and marketing loop to help developers supercharge growth. #3: This analysis is also brought to you by ironSource.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. our lead developer Juan Linietsky moved on to developing the upcoming Vulkan renderer for Godot 4.0 version as much as we enjoyed developing it!

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

Beyond study and instrumentation, there is instinct.” - Annorax* Creating a new F2P mobile game is riskier than it’s ever been. The majority of F2P mobile publishers are prioritizing the improvement of live operations processes for existing products over the creation of new products to generate more reliable revenue and to control costs.

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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. Carbonated also raised an $8.5M

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

This one is written by Om Tandon (Director of User Experience, DIGIT Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). Product differentiation is driven by UX, art styles, production quality and minor meta systems such as quests and saga maps. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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