Big Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There were days when the game developers had to build a flawless game and launch it in the Play/App Store, and the rest was taken care of by the users. But in today’s competitive world, the players are unaware of about 80% of the games, while 20% of the games are unprofitable and are removed from the online medium.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Supercell announced over a year ago that they will be opening a studio in North America. TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team. Subscribe here!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

Video games have the ability to transport users to another place and time. The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. Coming of age story Mojiken Studio is based in Surabaya, Indonesia and has been around for over ten years. The game is out now for PC and Nintendo Switch.

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

This time we’ll unveil the most common reasons why studios choose Unity for creating a game for Android in 2023. Keep on reading and find out what it takes to build a highly-rated mobile game by using the Unity engine and what you should be ready to go through. Is Unity Good for Mobile Games?

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Building hyper-casual games is a great way to get into game development. With their short cycles and simple gameplay, crafting a hyper-casual title means you can learn important skills across game design and monetisation, which you’ll need for success in the mobile games industry.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game design software does play a pivotal role in bringing the digital world to life, which allows game developers and designers to create immersive and engaging experiences. The world of game design is a captivating landscape brimming with possibilities.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small. .

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Top image: four of KAYAK’s hypercasual games. There has been a lot of talk about the future of Hypercasual games: how the market has been in stagnation, making studios slowly but steadily look for opportunities in the fraternal Hybridcasual. Let’s take a look at their games portfolio and performance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

Last week Tencent and Pokemon unveiled Pokemon Unite , a jointly-developed cross-platform MOBA for smartphones and Nintendo Switch. As commentary, I wrote: “Yes, Tencent already owns the biggest MOBA franchises on PC (League of Legends) and mobile (Honor of Kings). As a bonus, mobile battle royale history will also be covered.)

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s likely that if you’re reading this right now, you’ve already considered the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing game art. Cost Efficiency Game Development Companies can greatly decrease their expenses by outsourcing game art production.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

You can have a brilliant idea for a game, but without the right skills, tools and resources, it can be near-impossible to tackle by yourself. Being a one-man studio, Sergio managed to produce, release, and publish two successful VR titles. Oculus was also running a game jam at the time, which I entered. Build on your strengths.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is the author of the book Freemium Economics and the founder of Mobile Dev Memo , the ultimate growth blog and podcast. It is tempting for mobile games marketing teams to think of 2021 as being dominated by Apple’s impending new privacy policy for iOS, App Tracking Transparency (ATT). Access all of our previous predictions.

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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. Hypercasual games alone are estimated to generate $3.4B

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

In game development, your initial implementation of gameplay is always broken, and needs iteration to improve. " As much as an engine might help a specific use case, truth is that success depends above all else on how feasible your development process is. Starting over, is the game commercially viable?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

Most of us have been in games for a long time and are now working remotely “A lot of places have room to do better. But I have landed and stuck at my current studio, which handled it the best because they make room for us to navigate what works best for us and provide real support through the challenges to get us to a positive outcome.

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

“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. “I’m personally very interested in the idea of digital items, as I started my career in F2P monetization and in-game shop management.”

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

“Sadly, the reality of the business showed me that the type of games that pay the rent weren’t the type of experiences I wanted to create”, he says. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. This finally leads me to prototyping and validation.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

As far back as solo developer Sandro Luiz de Paula (aka ansdor) can remember he always wanted to be a game developer. But that didn’t discourage him at all: “I wouldn’t feel comfortable working on a game if I had to just follow someone else’s ideas.” What’s your creative process? “I

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

Strategy Games in 2020 Strategy games, which are composed out of 7 sub-genres, generated $5B in net revenue during 2020 growing IAP revenues by 21% while the downloads were up 9% year-over-year. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

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. Game Dev Tycoon started, as many games do, on a single piece of paper. Back then, we imagined the game as a turn-based game with almost no graphics for phones.

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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. Other noteworthy improvements are the support for MonoDevelop/Visual Studio for Mac as well as Jetbrains Rider as external editors, C# 8.0

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Early this year the Turkish mobile startup Dream Games has raised $50 million in new funding ($57.5M total funding), despite having only soft-launched its first game, Royal Match. Dream Games was founded by two of Peak’s former Product Directors. In other words, everything you need for game growth. It made $5.1

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

It improves the visuals and the performance of game simulations and provides more realistic, interactive, and immersive gaming experiences. AI art makes games look and feel more natural and life-like while recreating new digital gaming environments and worlds with real-time lighting.

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