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MARCH 23, 2020

Almost two years ago today, I launched a Kickstarter campaign for a board game called Highways & Byways. Yet two years later, when I look back, I see how its failure ended up improving my life and my business in a number of ways. Need help on your board game? They won’t tell you how. Fail faster.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Unlike the years before, we decided to really leverage our fantastic community of senior games industry folks to present you with trends that will shape our industry during the year. The k-factor, which measures the virality of a game, is at an all-time low. Welcome to our annual, highly anticipated, prediction series.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Most of you likely know Joakim Achren as the founder of the fantastic Elite Game Developers blog, podcast, and newsletter. But you might not know that he is also a published author , a venture partner at Play Ventures , a very active angel investor, and co-founder of the powerful Next Games. Let us know how you liked it!

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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. Lloyd is EVP of Casino at VGW where he runs Chumba Casino and on the Board of Directors for Murka. Subscriptions may usher in the next era of gaming.

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JANUARY 10, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. This is done through in-depth research, insights and case studies as well as innovative marketing solutions and education materials. All revenue numbers show net revenues.

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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. Data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Last week, I posted A Crash Course in Games , where I acted as a tour guide to the board game industry, covering much of the contextual information you’ll need to make games. Let’s pick up from there and talk about what specifically goes into making a game. What is board game development all about?

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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. Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch. Most importantly, the game was and is performing!

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With that in mind, I want to help you come up with some New Year’s Resolutions of your own, ones specifically related to board game design. Create your first board game.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

Full disclosure: both of the authors are decade-long fans of Supercell and their games. While our analysis may to some seem harsh, we assure you that it’s only reflective of the expectation Supercell puts on their games. This week, Supercell soft-launched a new crafting tycoon game called Everdale.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 23, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. In this past year, I’ve been using Facebook’s advertising system to increase the visibility of blog posts and to drive people to the Highways & Byways Kickstarter mailer.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The name alone evokes a lot of feelings in hopeful entrepreneurs and board gamers alike. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. ” Well, yeah.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 7, 2018

I’ve talked about how board game developers can get big on Twitter and use Facebook to its fullest potential. Many marketers pass over Instagram because it’s not as easy to understand as Facebook and Twitter. Need help on your board game? Reasons to Use Instagram.

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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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DECEMBER 12, 2021

If you like it, you will love Naavik’s monthly Blockchain Games report! Use code “NAAVIKDOF” at checkout and you’ll receive a -10% discount for the first subscription year. Executive Summary Sky Mavis’ mission is far more about spurring economic opportunity through play rather than about building an amazing game.

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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. . … It was not.

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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? Honestly, we know next to nothing.

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JUNE 20, 2019

There are several reasons why Matchington Mansion is on our lips: Firstly, it’s because the game is raking in over $15M in net revenues a month. Secondly, it’s because the game was able to challenge Playrix successfully in their own game. And there are 15 million reasons to look deeper into how they did it.

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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. Additionally, about 46% of the total revenue of CCG-Battle games came from key Asian markets of China, Japan, and South Korea, which tend inaccessible by Western games.

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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. However, very little has been written or yet discussed about how such a platform needs to work. How will the Metaverse need to support an efficient economy?

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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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JANUARY 14, 2020

Before you jump in, let us sum up how we arrived to the predictions. We originally created a taxonomy together with Game Refinery dividing the games market into four different categories: Casual, Mid-Core, Casino and Sports. Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. all predictions can be found here.

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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. Call of Duty franchise titles routinely sell millions of units every year. These games have a huge leg up in terms of organic downloads.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Announcing Legends of Runeterra A few weeks ago, Riot Games, creators of the megahit League of Legends, announced their new card game, Legends of Runeterra as a part of their 10-year anniversary announcement (read: Riot's 7 new games are a declaration of war against Blizzard ). Legends of Runeterra is Riot’s new card game.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

How does Supercell become Supercell, Playtika become Playtika, or EA become EA? Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California.

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JUNE 3, 2019

This was the date that the social games giant had acquired a relatively unknown Finnish developer, Small Giant. The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Especially the last twelve months the game has been thriving, raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue per day.

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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. Thus a full breakdown of the newly released game is warranted.

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JUNE 10, 2019

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. According to AppAnnie revenue estimates for 2018, within the US, 20% of revenue is coming from China and Japan, on the rise. During the past year Lilith has been on a roll!

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