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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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. I left gamedev entirely for five years, because I was burned out from working on yet another F2P mobile casino game or whatever soulless product would feed my family.” For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

But for the vast majority of mobile games, this approach will not work. And the market leaders in mobile gaming have conducted so many tests that they know exactly when and which mechanics work best (or perhaps they don't know, and we're just blindly following them as successful examples?). And I'll tell you why.

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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. Neither gameplay, nor controls were adapted to a mobile devices.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Mobile gaming market is close to what an economist would call a perfectly competitive market (except for some categories such card and fighting games - looking at you, Herthstone and Contest of Champions). The publisher/developer usually base their launch decision on a hypothesis of the scalability of user acquisition.

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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. I mean, you spend a LOT of time fighting in this game. That would be bad.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

This could mean creating VR experiences that can be enjoyed by people with mobility issues, or developing AR applications that are useful for people with visual impairments.” He concluded, “I think there’s obviously enough space for these two to kind of fight it out.”

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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. King lost third of downloads but woke up towards the end of the year to fight back for downloads. Nintendo’s Dr. Mario World was a fresh take but just like most of the publisher’s games on mobile, it sadly tanked.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet something has changed in the last years as mobile free to play has matured and become global. Many of the new games that are gaining ground are coming from developers like Lilith , Firecraft Studios (Matchington Mansion), FunPlus (King of Avalon, Guns of Glory) and IGG (Lords Mobile). Core Battle: Fighting on Auto-Pilot.

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