PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

She is currently transitioning into a new role as a social media and community lead at the American-based 3D Art Academy, Art Heroes. “It was all about puzzle design, analytical thinking, and understanding player agency and mechanics”, she says. In our conversation, she shared highlights from both events.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 28, 2019

The dice are bright and pretty, as are the puzzle boards on which you build stained glass arrangements of dice. It’s ultimately a puzzle game, but a very attractive one with some subtle elements that arise from it being a nearly perfect information game where players draw from the same draft pool. And boy did it!

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Just when the market was becoming overheated with the lockdowns and merge mechanics were the all-new rage among the players. Merge Dragons never strayed from merge mechanics and exclusively contained puzzles that players could solve by merging various items. Tough question. At first glance, the answer would seem to be no.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Casual Games in 2022 In our taxonomy, built together with Sensor Tower, the casual games category is divided into seven genres: Puzzle, Hypercasual, Arcade, Tabletop, Simulation, Lifestyle, and Geolocation. Puzzle Games The King is Back. Outside of Merge, 2021 felt a bit empty with respect to new puzzle games.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

When a game with a unique style and appearance becomes a hit, it doesn’t take long for new games to emerge, hoping to emulate that success by using the same gameplay mechanics, visual style and features. You’d be forgiven for mistaking Stumble Guys for Fall Guys. Tournament options in Stumble Guys.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 25, 2019

However, what made me look into all this data was the overwhelming amount of people on my Facebook group, social media channels, and chat room saying one of two things: Board gaming is getting stale and all the games look the same. RPGs won’t scratch the board gamer itch for puzzles or crunchy heavy board games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

To get into the weeds on how to set up and operate effective cross-promotion, I sat down with Yuval Yosefi , who heads cross-promotion as well as all the other user acquisition channels apart from social media and search. And that is having the ad monetization mechanics. Best Fiends is a puzzle game.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Game art studios are organizations specializing in producing digital interactive media. 3D characters are great for games that need to capture players’ attention but also have more complex mechanics like fighting and other interactions. As you can see, game art studios have become an integral piece of the gaming puzzle.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is a media strategist, quantitative marketer, and author who has spent his career working for transformative consumer technology and media companies. For example CPMs in Word games may actually increase as they provide great traffic for puzzle games. Prediction #3 Broadening of Media Mixes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the last and, the most important piece of the “scaling” puzzle focusing on the nothing less than the game that is being promoted and the teams that are promoting it. This puts more emphasis on product and creative than media buying itself.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Playrix is one of the powerhouses in the puzzle genre thanks to Gardenscapes and Homescapes’ current success. Retaining the acquired users with a mini-game : If the hero creative/or playable ad involves a fake gameplay, it is added as a minigame to the events or core mechanics until the player is hooked in with the real in-game content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. This made it a great fit for cartoons with an adorable style and simple geometry exemplified in Western cartoon media with The Powerpuff Girls and My Little Pony. Two key words - cuteness and mashup.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 26, 2019

Until you have a big media presence, you can’t really use “the hype machine” to your advantage. We were very careful about how we worded each ad and social media post. A puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players.” Social Media. Both approaches work and have different pros and cons.

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Game Refinery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

One of the most successful ways of doing this is by introducing meta elements – gameplay elements and mechanics from other game genres – into your game. If you’ve ever seen mobile ads pop up on your social media fees, we’d bet you’ve seen your fair share of adverts that include renovation elements. and feel a sense of accomplishment.

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Played with Fire

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Astronomical observatory simulator, manipulating telescope POV, rotating planets on lens display like dioramas or puzzle boxes, relaxing, immersive 360 experience in space, UX pillars: precision, real-time, comfortable distances, avoiding locomotion sickness. A reliable system of interaction for puzzle mechanics. We hope so!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. They are meant more for trend analysis based on estimations, rather than an exact numbers.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

[link] To round out this sprint, Julian worked on a simple Backstab mechanic that will allow players to sneak up on unsuspecting enemies and deliver a critical attack. If you're a seasoned action RPG lover like us, then you already understand how necessary—and oh so satisfying—this particular mechanic can be. Sound Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

[link] With the improvements made to our Kota Soldier enemy in particular, we then asked Andy if he could look into programming the functionality for a Gunner version of these ratty baddies—a shooter enemy mechanic we'd struggled to properly implement in the past. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. Sound Design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

And Supercell promoted the game through all of its media channels. While this introduces a continuous mechanic that could be useful in monetization, it also seems a double-edged sword: It means that Beatstar can’t be played in a relaxed way. The game has Supercell ID as the first non-Supercell game ever.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Mobile ad spend will be over half of all media ad spend by 2024 Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention in Safari was the catalyst to radically altering the digital marketing landscape. Mobile gaming megatrends Eric Seufert, Mobile Dev Memo. ATT in iOS 15 went harder. Each different game audience needs a different economy.

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