Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile.

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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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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Let’s explore the Top 10 Mobile Game Development without wasting your precious time! Ratchet & Clank – Rift Apart Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a remarkable third-person shooter platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. So, are you excited to take a look?

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Game Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Yuga collaboration In its marketing for Wreck League, nWay claims the game is no less than “an entirely new project that marks the next chapter in the evolution of fighting games, competitive gaming, and esports” Season 1 is being launched in collaboration with Yuga Labs’ The Extended Yugaverse of Bored Ape and Otherside.

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Both of these titles with cross-platform play capacity. Platform preferences: Both Fortnite and Apex Legends are available on mobile, PC, and console. The PS is the most popular platform for this title, with around 40% of gamers. The PS is the most popular platform for this title, with around 40% of gamers.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 1, 2023

Disclosure: This article has been written as a part of a paid cooperation with Moxy Moxy , founded by a group of game industry veterans and blockchain experts, aims to transform the gaming landscape by providing a platform for eSports-style competitive gaming with real rewards for existing games. Nothing like this currently exists.”

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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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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Also, apart from its art outsourcing services, it offers cross-platform porting, AI, and web development. Specialties: – Concept Art, 3D Art, 3D Art, Illustration, Promo Art, 3D Animation, 2D Animation, Mobile Games, Video Games, UI, and Social Networks. Winking Corporation. Keywords Studio. Art Bully Productions.

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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. The opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not reflect the opinions of the author's current or past employers."

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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. It’s no surprise to any readers of this newsletter that Apple set off a nuclear warhead into the heart of the mobile games business with IDFA deprecation, under the thin veil of user privacy.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2023

Maybe it’s for a dialogue-driven narrative story, but your expertise is in competitive esports titles. The pitched game is for a platform you’re scaling back on (or not supporting altogether). If your company just isn’t supporting that platform anymore, you’re probably not going to green light a new game for it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. While today's Game of War is little more than a profitable legacy title, the game was pivotal to growing the 4X sub-genre to what it is today - a $5B sub-genre on mobile in the Western markets. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

It’s not that Magic Eden could not have brought more gamers onto their platform or Fenix Games could not have built a nice marketplace. Of course, it’s important not to reduce it to 1 or 2 like today’s mobile gaming, but I hope we can do better than that… Written by Ahmetcan Demirel ?️ Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Executive Summary What: MARVEL SNAP is a mobile CCG by Second Dinner, a new studio founded by veterans from Hearthstone. Key strength: Its biggest strength is the gameplay perfectly adapted for mobile. So when it comes to mobile, it’s another of these genres that do not work as well in the West. Source: Data.ai Source: Data.ai

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While it’s proven that the MOBA core has not resonated in the Western markets on mobile , both League of Legends and DOTA2 are highly popular with the PC audience in the West. After initial Nintendo Switch launch, the game bursted onto mobile with 30M installs in the first week. So what happened to Pokemon Unite?

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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

It creates an esports-fertile product, since the core battle experience allows two players to have a fair battle that is highly dependent on skill versus stats. Public Sale (11%): This occurred on October 10th 2020 through the Binance Launchpad platform. Read the press release here.

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