Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s again taking a super simple addictive core game but actually pairing it with a simplified progression mechanic and some amount of live operations. And the progression mechanic result in in-app purchases. As a result, you have a game that players play for months, instead of days. Other hypercasual experts are talking about it too.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Astral Clocktower Studios x Game Raven Review.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Bandai Namco had previously teased the release of the new entry in the long running fighting series as we get our first impressions on Tekken 8. This game is developed from the studio that created Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Let’s take a look at what went down at Sony’s State of Play 2022: Tekken 8. Like a Dragon Ishin. Pacific Drive.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. Fortunately with so much water all around the player is never too far from a refill to keep the fight going.”

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Unicorn Run also introduces flying powers and shooting mechanics to help you achieve higher scores, adding an extra layer of excitement to the gameplay. Developed by Bethesda Game Studios, it was initially met with mixed reviews during its early access phase but later garnered attention and commercial success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

It looks like these are not enough to stop Tactile , the Danish studio behind smash hit Lily’s Garden , from working on a new title since they launched their latest game Makeover Match in March 2023. Although the Tactile team has several titles under their portfolio, the well-known swapping mechanic is not very common among their games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2021

HackBerry Studio's @aris_journey is a precision platformer without any platforms. ReefRumbleGame by @Paul_N_Leduc and Maxime Martens is a cartoony fighting/party game for 2 to 8 players, locally or online! Mechanic 8230. Mechanic 8230 by Nudiventra is a point and click adventure with a wonderful art direction!

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Big Games

AUGUST 19, 2021

A good game should have an impressive storyline, extensive gameplay, amazing graphics, incredible sound effects, brilliant user engagement mechanics, and monetization strategies. The urge to complete the task, fight the obstacles and rescue the victims gives mere satisfaction to the players. Everything has its own limits.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Also Read: The Best 3D Art Outsourcing Studios in the Industry 8. For example, acceptance criteria may state that tank fighting mechanics function as intended in 98% of test encounters. The possibilities are endless with animation, so take advantage of this tool to create a truly immersive gaming experience.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Players usually generate income by winning fights and must use strategic thinking to decide whether to use that currency to buy new characters, upgrade their existing characters, raise their team size limit, or refresh the selection of characters on offer.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!).

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But here's what I'm playing and what I'm talking about: Immortality Wayward Strand Cult of the Lamb Betrayal at Club Low Atuel Immortality by Half Mermaid The third "FMV game" helmed by auteur Sam Barlow and his studio, about collecting short video fragments to assemble complex psychological stories.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2020

It all started with “ Dota Auto Chess ”, developed in January ’19 by Drodo Studio as a mod for Dota 2. Here’s how you play Auto Chess: The objective of the game is to defeat 7 opponents through a series of 1v1 fights. In 2020, we expect to see several more games across different genres that will leverage these systems.

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Game Errors

APRIL 5, 2023

Martial arts one-on-one fighting games have been a staple for consoles and arcades dating back to the 1980s. Another reason to get Arcade Edition is to avoid the slog of unlocking characters in V by means of accumulating Fight Money. Get Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition (PS4) 2. . ⇒ Get Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition (PS4) 2.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2020

Somewhere in the middle of this journey, another Friendly Game studio shared the early results of the new game they had recently launched. Sniper 3D Assassin by Wildlife Studios, like all the other sniper games, suffers from a relatively low long-term retention. LTV was up more than 25 times by the time of the global launch.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The ever-changing nature of the mobile market means that new monetization mechanics are constantly emerging and evolving. One of the most popular monetization mechanics is the subscription-based battle pass , which was introduced via Valve’s DOTA 2 in 2013 but popularized by the worldwide phenomenon, Fortnite.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

For example, entering Fighting games is nearly suicidal effort. Fighting games install trends are spiky as is the revenue rate. To summarise it, failing to make and scale a high-quality RPG will likely doom a studio. Just look at Hero Wars from a Playrix associated studio. 1 Idle RPGs will drive the genre growth.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I do sometimes have ‘flashes’ -or dreams- of cool ideas like a gameplay mechanic, other times a whole story or environment. The indie community is amazingly helpful, but you will have to fight by yourself with every single element in your own game – and that takes time! What’s the biggest lesson learned from this project?

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. The immersive worlds game developers craft will get players hooked and keep them coming back for more. But is there an ultimate winner?

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Studio owner and Lead Developer Max Hermann originally developed the idea for the game in the time when he was still a computer science student and active in the RimWorld modding scene. One with ruins of a collapsed civilization, where you have to fight through raiders and remnants of that civilization to claim your spoils.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

Further, recent strategic moves have been made by Voodoo to open “beyond hypercasual” studios. While the diminishing market share and opening of non-hypercasual studios can be seen as Voodoo’s fall from grace, it can also be viewed as Voodoo’s strategic retreat from the hypercasual market.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Nearly all major studios from NetEase to Tencent and Ubisoft are betting on survival-oriented extraction shooters as the next big thing on all platforms. For example, Escape from Tarkov has gone full-military with its detailed limb injury mechanics, complicated inventory management, and ultra-realistic gunplay.

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Game Errors

JUNE 20, 2023

Mortal Kombat 11 has brought plenty of reasons to be in the collection of every fighting game fan. A very rich package of single and multiplayer content is exactly what we expect from the NetherRealm studio, and we can already conclude that this is the most entertaining and mechanically well-rounded Mortal Kombat so far.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 17, 2022

Therefore, to correct this terrible misuse of the term, we will look at what “roguelike” or “roguelite” or even “Rogue” actually mean, as well as diving into some concrete examples of how roguelike elements and mechanics have been used in mobile games in China lately. source: Wikipedia).

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

Making the right choices at project greenlight can be the difference between a successful future vs. a destabilising force to your studios and portfolio health. How do studios of all sizes invest in new products prudently in today’s games market? We instead let our mechanics and motif alone determine who we thought would play our game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. The AFK style faction mechanic can be useful because, in its current state, PB (and E&P) has a problem.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tower of Fantasy is a new MMORPG developed by Hotta Studio and published by Perfect World and Level Infinite. Similar to the mechanics of Genshin Impact, the player explores the vast open-world by climbing on the walls, swimming in the rivers, gliding in the skies, wiping out enemies, and solving different kinds of puzzles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

This deconstruction will cover: The game’s core loop Why having chosen a basic match-3 mechanic was a safe bet What other games have tried The game’s features and to which kinds of players it caters How time-limited offers and events are run successfully. Snowprint Studios’ Legend of Solgard (published by King) and its refreshing core-game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

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. The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. The studio then switched to developing content for mobile and created a pair of exclusive titles for China’s WeChat social platform in 2013. TiMi’s port of PUBG was called PUBG: Army Attack.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The most notable move being the opening of a Berlin studio that is categorically focussed on “casual” games, with key hires coming in from Blizzard, King, Rovio and the likes. More recently, and while writing this post, Voodoo also announced a new Montreal studio that wants to build games “beyond hypercasual”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Genesis and Rise of Sky Mavis Axie Infinity is developed by a studio called Sky Mavis , which is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and officially formed in 2018 to bring the game to life. On the other hand, Axie Infinity mashes familiar turn-based gameplay with a Hearthstone-like card battler mechanic.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Since we last met, things have legit been poppin' off over here. Concept Art.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This strategy is supported by the structure of a 4X studio where the live service team is often separated from the core tech and the publishing team. Unlike with Sniper games, you could move and you were actually fighting other players. 3 Product innovation is crucial.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

Sometimes I think studios invest a ton of time and money, and maybe even different writers, into the opening parts of games to kind of get you excited to play, and probably to have some extremely high quality stuff to use in marketing. I mean, you spend a LOT of time fighting in this game. And the battles kind of suck.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

AppLovin, the US-based ad network turned publisher , which came clear about their investment into Firecraft Studios, acquired Belka. King lost third of downloads but woke up towards the end of the year to fight back for downloads. Jam City hold it stable with the power of a large catalog as the new games fail to scale.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Mobile games market predictions in 2022 Michail Katkoff, Savage Game Studios, and Deconstructor of Fun. Friends at mobilegamer.biz summarised every talk and session and divided them up so you can watch each one by hitting play on the embedded video.

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