Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Veteran Technical Director James Marr Answers: What Makes A Great Game Engineer? More than ever, user acquisition teams must rely on machine learning and AI to find the right audiences for their games and apps. So we conducted research and we found out that 80% of the time players spend in Hero Wars is spent on the menus.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 10, 2023

It is one of the oldest story elements, dating back to ancient days when Oedipus was told, "About your mom? Um, we have some bad news there." Doesn’t the hero have to be told by God that he’ll win?” What purpose do they serve in a story? Macbeth is an entire story on rails. Bad news, right?

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This week, we dive into the games that are defying headwinds from the recent economic slowdown in every category. We review the game of the week: Talking Tom Time Rush from Outfit7 ✉️ Received this email from a friend? These are the Mobile Games Defying Economic Headwinds — and Why In data.ai In Today’s Email ? Subscribe here!

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The episode “Disengage” continues the A and B storyline format from the first episode, with the A story concerning Jack Crusher and his fate, and the B story exploring what Raffi does in the aftermath of the terrorist attack. The B-story has Raffi refusing to disengage with the investigation, despite her handler’s orders to do so.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

There’s a lot at play behind this story from the idea of the mind as a prison to questioning the nature of perception and reality, and frankly, as with the episodes “Past Tense ” and “Far Beyond the Stars ,” “Hard Time” is very much a story that fits with DS9 so much better than it would have any other Star Trek franchise installment.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 18, 2024

They couldn’t simply warp away to the next mission or the next new world, and for that reason, the writers could craft stories that forced the characters to face challenges to their Starfleet morals and worldviews that simply wouldn’t arise for an Enterprise crew. “ It should because we all need the reminder to reflect on our actions.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Blog Authors: David Holladay - AWS Game Tech Head of PMM & Ryan Greene - AWS Game Tech Sr. Announced today, AWS for Games adds eight new services and solutions for game developers. Amazon GameLift now enables customers to manage game servers hosted in the cloud or on-premises. Highlights. Highlights.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

Why does this game matter? Well, Supercell hasn't launched a new game since Brawl Stars in 2018, so Mini becoming a hit would have an impact on the trend of the whole company. And it’s the only game soft-launched to date from Supercell’s Shanghai Studio, which was opened 5 years ago. It was not.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Here’s General Onimaru’s hero card: Onimaru is one of the best heroes in combat. At max level, he becomes a 4/5, which is really beefy for a hero, and he also gets three 1/1 soldiers to command. Here's another trick up Onimaru's sleeve: General Onimaru can send any unit to Boot Camp, and even any hero except himself.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Now that my title has savagely baited your click, let's talk about the weirdness of the game industry and the big mess we're all in. I've been working continuously making indie video games longer than, let's say, anyone. So let's get to it: There are too many indie games. Do I think you should keep writing your dream game?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2020

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. The most common metrics gaming companies focus on are Day-1, Day-7, and Day-30 retention rate. But let me start with a story. The soft launch of the game was a disaster.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Dream Catcher” left our intrepid heroes marooned on the Murder Planet after having faced their greatest desires, and “Terror Firma” picks right up where “Dream Catcher” left off both in terms of action and in terms of theme, specifically with respect to Gwyn and her place in the narrative. You can find Trekker’s Delight here.

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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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Game Industry News

JUNE 24, 2021

He meets Ardelon’s widow, and she offers that her husband was not the great hero history makes him out to be. Though the episode uses a legal framework to ask the question, the story is not one about making a legal decision in the sense that “ Measure of a Man ” was. appeared first on Game Industry News.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Supercell is one of the rare companies that doesn’t try to beat the competition; rather, it tries to beat the high score set by its own prior games. To date, Supercell has created multiple genre-defining games and generated billions in revenues -- all with little more than 300 employees (!). Our short answer is no.

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