Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then. So, what’s to blame?

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The Liquid Fire

MAY 12, 2023

Ability scores are an important game mechanic that relate the skills and abilities of creatures and characters to a simple number. Overview When playing games like Pathfinder or Dungeons and Dragons, you have the opportunity to create the character you will be role playing as.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

This post is written by our friends, the fantastic Game Bakery substack team. Executive Summary Dislyte managed to stand out in a saturated CCG-RPG market thanks to its trendy, mysterious aesthetics and musical appeals, topping the download charts across major markets at launch.

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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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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. The Macro-Level View As we know, 2020 was a year of unprecedented growth for mobile games.

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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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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 6, 2024

In this lesson we will begin to fix this issue by introducing size and reach mechanics. Getting Started Feel free to continue from where we left off, or download and use this project here. At the top of the class I added a "tileSize" const that is set to 5 and represents the number of "feet" a tile on the game board spans.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2020

And while those two titles dominate the top charts, Playrix road to the top started a long time ago with a non-assuming little game know as Township. The game was launched in 2011 as a freemium social game first as Google+ (!) Strong iPad monetization indicates that this is a game played at home by a more mature audience.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We will add animated sprites to represent both a hero and monster. Getting Started Feel free to continue from where we left off, or download and use this project here. Getting Started Feel free to continue from where we left off, or download and use this project here. Download this unitypackage and import it to your project.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

And although there’s no official confirmation yet, recent hiring and community buzz points out that the game is getting ready for a global launch. That was Riot Games’ playbook with TFT and Wild Rift. Ultimately, it seems that the strategy has been around completing the game with side mechanics and not touching the core.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Overview Having a hero with skill “values” gets us a long way to our goals. In this game, we don’t simply ask if your skill is a certain level, but add some randomness. We will make the final system that puts a hero’s skills to the test to see if they can really do what they set out to accomplish.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets. The money you save on platform fees will go directly into further improving and growing your games.

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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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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 13, 2024

.” – Westley, The Princess Bride Overview In the previous lesson we made it so that the rat could only attack our hero if the hero was within reach. Our hero currently has no such restriction and can attack from anywhere, so we will need to fix that now. Play the game from the LoadingScreen scene like normal.

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The Liquid Fire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Overview We will be using this lesson to properly instantiate both the hero and monster of our encounter. We will do this based on the game and encounter data. Getting Started Feel free to continue from where we left off, or download and use this project here. For the Hero Position we will use (-4,0).

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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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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The social gaming trend is taking mobile games by storm and so the quest to innovate social elements intensifies. Even the single-player casual genres have seen a shift towards more communal gaming in 2021 and it’s expected to tackle the revenue conundrum as well. Let players promote your game, more engaged friends the merrier.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

So without further ado… First, a quick overview of the RPG genre Role Playing Games (RPGs) have generated nearly $3Bn in in-app purchase revenues year-to-date in the Western markets. This makes RPGs the third largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.4Bn) and Puzzle ($4.5Bn) games. mid-core 2019. mid-core 2019.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a holiday shopper’s guide to all things Board Games. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Hobby Board Games. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Description from Board Game Geek.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 17, 2024

Getting Started Feel free to continue from where we left off, or download and use this project here. You will also need to download this package , which contains a json file representing the various ancestries. Rarity Feel free to read more about the rarity game mechanic here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This guest post is written by Gordon Rowe , an experienced product leader that has spent 10 years building and operating free to play games on mobile, web, and consoles. I’m hooked on this game. from Gram Games, and Evermerge from Big Fish/Neskin Games. It’s 2:02 pm on a Friday and I’ve got a lot of work to do.

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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

JULY 20, 2020

Riot for sure succeeded in shipping fast, but they clearly didn’t pay much attention on the business case for the game. 43 Revenue per Download. If this wasn’t a Riot’s game, we’d deem it as a commercial failure by now, because very few companies can turn the boat around at this point. The revenue per download is low.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Xsolla has dedicated tools that will help you create your own online commerce platform, improve your performance marketing and discoverability, and expand your game business on mobile and PC. Clash Mini is one of the three Clash games Supercell announced in April of 2021. As expected from Supercell, Clash Quest is a polished game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The game has not achieved the business objectives set by Supercell and the game will shut down. In games, like in real life, we often have more to learn from misses than successes. The game was first available in the Nordics, followed by a quick rollout to the Philippines, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Xsolla has dedicated tools that will help you create your own online commerce platform, improve your performance marketing and discoverability, and expand your game business on mobile and PC. It’s the first game to come out of the studio since they got laced up with the Supercell rockets. grants internal benchmarks for testing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

On March 16th, in the midst of a global pandemic, Supercell dropped a new game: Hay Day Pop (HDP). The minute a supercell game is released, a thousand slack notifications go off. Mobile developers look up their fake AppStore accounts and download with excitement wondering what the new game could be.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

In addition, the pathfinding rules for Pathfinder are far more complex and varied than those found in games like Final Fantasy Tactics. Getting Started Feel free to continue from where we left off, or download and use this project here. Next, download and unzip then import this package. Save the changes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

We originally created a taxonomy together with Game Refinery dividing the games market into four different categories: Casual, Mid-Core, Casino and Sports. We pulled the data of top 1000 games from last three years from the one and only App Annie and aligned the data with the categories, genres and sub-genres.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. Major franchises claimed three of the top downloaded title spots worldwide last month: Call of Duty Mobile, Mario Kart Tour, and PUBG Mobile. These games have a huge leg up in terms of organic downloads.

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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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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Overview My very first blog project involved creating mechanics for a Tactics RPG. So I decided to keep the visual style of this project as a simple 2D game and to make my boards with a Tilemap so that I could demonstrate solutions for those questions. Download, unzip, then import the package.

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