Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together. In many respects, this change isn’t particularly surprising.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A game economy design will differ from one game to another, but the core principle remains the same: it encourages users to play more by earning resources (like energy, gems, and in-game currency) and incurring losses, creating a loop of endless gameplay. How Does It Work? In other games, your life or energy is used as “currency.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

The prequel to this post is Why Remote Workers are Increasingly Less Productive, Anxious, Depressed, and Lonely. I’m a curious product person at heart. Last week I presented a hypothesis about Why Remote Workers are Increasingly Less Productive, Anxious, Depressed, and Lonely. Winning for me is understanding the why.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

That means players engage more as a job (often as “scholars” from developing countries who borrow in-game assets from richer “sponsors” or “managers,” who receive a cut of their earnings) than for fun. This report was written by Jimmy Stone , Lars Doucet , Anthony Pecorella , Aaron Bush , Abhimanyu Kumar , from left to right.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This deconstruction will explain how Township consistently grew and blossomed into a game that boasts an astonishing $200M yearly run rate 7 years after it was originally launched. This analysis is written by two unassuming Township players, Buğrahan Göker and Michail Katkoff. Data from the best in business, Sensor Tower.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

The difference in revenue was explained by an increase in investments (M&A), though no specification was given on what the company invested in and how much. FRUSTRATION: These blog posts can also annoy game executives and senior leaders. Not even companies that Supercell has a majority holding in have been able to replicate this culture.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Written by Laura Taranto , Javier Barnés , and Anette Staloy. Make sure to listen to the podcast below to dive even deeper into Clash Quest. After 16 months in soft launch, Supercell’s Clash Quest has reached the end of its run. The game has not achieved the business objectives set by Supercell and the game will shut down.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

MOBAs are very difficult to make, they are costly to operate and the monetization requires a massive audience with great long-term retention. Yet they are not that difficult to get greenlight because of the multi-billion-Dollar success of the Honour of Kings and League of Legends (PC). MOBAs struggle in the Western markets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

How many people do I need? How do I deliver the results expected from the stakeholders? I will describe how I hired, who I hired and how I defined our mission. At first, I tried to solve the ‘What’, ‘Who’ and ‘How,’ but the most fundamental question turned out to be ‘Why’: “Why am I doing this?”. Who should I hire?

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

Find out how Archero was able to achieve big success and how it could have been designed even stronger in this episode's podcast. Archero realising this level of success across markets is purely a function of its marketing and design strategies coming together quite well to formulate a very interesting product journey.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

How AFK Arena is marketed and played is very different, however. This has gone on for decades, with the two groups being influenced by each other, yet struggling to operate their games successfully across this cultural divide. Yet something has changed in the last years as mobile free to play has matured and become global.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This deconstruction will look at the market, the product and the marketing in an attempt to answer if Puzzle Breakers is good enough to rival Empires and Puzzles. source: 2020 Predictions #3: How to Get That RPG Loot. The interface, and the art style in general look very ‘Supercelly’. To be frank, no. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. 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.

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