Game Errors

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Getting mediocre FPS from the high-end game is a common problem. However, this becomes a matter of serious concern if the FPS count is too low and the game is not playable. But other things also can affect your game performance. Disk problem: Poor disk performance can severely affect this game’s FPS.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

I'm sure everyone is getting tired of playing Animal Crossing, and what better way to exercise your grey-matter than modding your favorite game. The other downside is these really are the dev tools we used to make the game, and like most in-house dev tools, they are poorly documented and very crude around the edges. there's more.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. in net revenues during 2020, while holding the top games on mobile. These games were rewarded with some of the best retention curves in the industry.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch. What I mean by that it is easy to pick up and play, which for a card game is no small feat. Most importantly, the game was and is performing! What’s the best way to describe Marvel Snap?

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Since then, I’ve read Lloyd’s article “ Subscriptions: The new weapon in the game monetization arsenal ” half a dozen times and turned from a doubter of subscriptions into a believer. He has been in the video game industry since 1993, where he has worked at both start-ups and huge entertainment companies.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

without recompiling the engine (and which can be simply downloaded from our asset library). Render engineers are few and one of the most valued positions in the game industry (and yes, I'm tired of turning down juicy job offers for companies all around the world just because I love working on Godot for all of you :P).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

Designing the game world's creatures. I realised this for myself when trying to make a character for my game and the traditional way of setting up a skeleton (the sketches in the white box of the image) just gave me over and over again similar results.   I downloaded it just a few days ago to try it on my drawing tablet.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2022 GAMES AWARDS: And the winner is… The Biggest News Item of 2022 Looking back, 2021 was truly booming in terms of game news. War, inflation, rising interest rates, recession struggle of performance marketing all influenced the games business that these days isn’t quite as recession-proof as it was back in 2008.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Niantic’s AR-based mobile game took the world by storm and broke numerous world records , including the most revenue grossed by a mobile game in its first month ($206.5m). It’s an entertaining game in its own right, revolving around solid tapping and swiping controls that players must master to succeed.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

This week, in the changing economic environment, we take a look at the recent consolidation of blockchain gaming to weather tough times ahead. ? Deconstructor of Fun has teamed up with MY.GAMES, AWS, Unity, Data.ai, and Google to supercharge the Game Drive accelerator program. They even had to fend off AppLovin to complete the deal !

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Instead we predicted an evolution of these games on two levels - Hypercasual meta systems will deepen to drive stronger medium term retention Hypercasual monetisation would ‘hybridise’ to rely on both Ads and IAPs Fast forward 10 months, hypercasual downloads are at an all-time high - as you’ll see in the data ahead.

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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: In this second post we discuss Arcade games, which we see as a genre in the Casual category. The State of Arcade Games While the Arcade genre only accounts for 7.5% Let’s dive in!

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Mhz, which is closer to the clock speed of the Amiga and Atari ST than the Atari or C64, and a lot faster than most of us are used to when coding retro games. so there are no additional big data transfers between the chips to wait for, making things all much more efficient. Neo6502 Software and Firmware: What can it do?

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. 1 How to make an analytic global launch decision So, you have soft launched your game. But at what point will your game be ready for a global launch?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Snap presents a very accessible CCG with short intense matches of ~4 minutes which involve a high degree of poker-like mind games and deception. Genre: CCG-Battle is a niche genre in both downloads and revenue. In the last 365d, the CCG-Battle sub-genre only made $376M and 59M downloads Worldwise. It’s extremely engaging.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. GoPractice is also highly recommended by some of the top mobile games companies, which is how I originally got connected with Oleg.

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The Knights of Unity

MAY 6, 2020

What is the most attractive thing in games? Hyper-casual games do not have a story, they have little content, and yet it is one of the most addictive genres in the history of gaming. Hyper casuals dominated the mobile games market in 2017 and they are still growing in popularity. What are Hyper-Casual Games?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game. But now, thanks to this tantalizing report we get to wonder, what should be the gaming of Netflix? What do we actually know? Though same was said of Amazon….

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Game Designing

JANUARY 23, 2023

When applying for a job , you were expected to submit your portfolio or bring it along to any interviews. This can make a big difference in the overall feel of your portfolio. The platform also offers career tools and a job board to help you find work, making it a great choice for freelancers. Why Are They Important?

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

It’s been five whole years since Game Dev Tycoon released on Steam. Time for a brief illustrated trip through the game’s history. Back in 2011, my brother Daniel and I (we are both software developers) decided that we wanted to try to make a game. Game Dev Tycoon started, as many games do, on a single piece of paper.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 22, 2020

Not even a year has passed since we did our predictions on Action games in 2019. 2019 continued this trend, with PUBG Mobile still being the #1 game on mobile. This sector is so unique versus action games, and one that has been growing quickly. you can find the previous predictions here. Let’s dive in.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 15, 2024

Guest Post by Ken Landen , an experienced figure in the gaming industry, currently serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of a startup that's currently in stealth mode. With a career dating back to 2012, Ken has contributed to renowned gaming companies such as Blizzard, Scopely, and Kongregate.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

And it’s also not that difficult to get the talent to build these games as we developers want to make MOBAs because we love playing them on PC. But what is confusing is that MOBAs continue to get greenlit despite no evidence that these games could succeed in the Western markets. MOBAs struggle in the Western markets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A 10-year gaming industry veteran, leading game development teams focused on free-to-play titles across mobile and PC. Summary Warcraft Rumble is an action-strategy game akin to Clash Royale but with a focus on single-player tower offense. Written by Christopher Brousseau. The Arclight Booster pack, available for $19.99

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis is written by my friend, Buğrahan Göker who focused on 4X games, and Yours Truly. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Strategy games also represent nearly a half of all Mid-Core revenues.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. From our sponsor: Do you need funds to finish, release, or promote your game? Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Create an account 2.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 7, 2023

In this lesson we will be creating a system that will let us easily persist the entire object graph of our game. Getting Started Feel free to continue from where we left off, or download and use this project here. Overview In the pursuit of clean architecture, I will be making a lot of systems which are focused on a single job.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

A lot has been written, and there has been a lot of discussion about, the potential for a huge new gaming and virtual world paradigm which many are calling the Metaverse. For example: Google’s use of user interface barriers with scary pop-ups when end-users try to download an Epic mobile app store for Android.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 18, 2023

This week, now that the big news on Rovio is confirmed, we look at the question on the industry’s mind — what’s next for the company under Sega? Japanese gaming giant Sega has confirmed that it’s buying Finnish Rovio in an all-cash deal worth $775 million. Rovio’s track record of launching games nearly every year is solid.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Head of VFX Daniel Hourigan ( Aquaman , The Hunger Games: Mockingjay , Terminator: Dark Fate ) takes us through how he built his KitBash3D Mission to Minerva settlement in Houdini, detailing key steps from his recent informative livestreams, including a great workaround for creating a fast rendering volumetric glow. CG Spectrum's Dept.

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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. Year to date strategy games generated nearly five and a half Billion Dollars in in-app purchases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Impatient users can put an end to 18 months of waiting by jumping directly to our Download page and start playing with Godot 3.0! Last but not least, a big thank you to Mozilla and Microsoft for their grants which funded a big part of the work on 3.0. The long road to 3.0. Documentation. Mono / C# support. within a few weeks.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A 10-year gaming industry veteran, leading game development teams focussed on free-to-play titles across mobile and PC. Summary Warcraft Rumble, is an action-strategy game akin to Clash Royale but with a focus on single-player tower offense. Written by Christopher Brousseau. The Arclight Booster pack, available for $19.99

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Download Godot 3.1 As always, please remember that we are a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. is not a fallback but a different platform you should target your game for. They allow creating very game-like character motion with little effort.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Cogmind began its life as a 7DRL , and a portion of items designed back when the game was overall a very different environment didn’t evolve at the same pace. That would be bad :P. It made sense to wait as long as possible to carry out this process, but the wait is finally over! Exiles Prototypes.

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