Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Avalon has found investment backing from the likes of Bitkraft, Delphi Ventures, and Mechanism Capital raising $13 million in a round announced earlier this year. Joonmo Kwon, CEO of Delabs, commented: “With this partnership, Rumble Racing Star is set to engage a more expansive global audience.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Let’s explore the Top 10 Mobile Game Development without wasting your precious time! Unicorn Run also introduces flying powers and shooting mechanics to help you achieve higher scores, adding an extra layer of excitement to the gameplay. So, are you excited to take a look?

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 7, 2020

Toys for which you had to build a track yourself and then simply put them on it, and race with your friends just by pressing a button! You can play campaign mode with your friends or/and with AI, build custom tracks and then race on them in the party mode! It all started when we were just kids playing slot cars toys, do you know those?

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

It contains the game’s proposed design like the concept of the game, genre, core game mechanics, gameplay, timeline, illustrations/sketches, story and characters, levels and monetization strategies. Prototype: The prototype is a raw test that checks the functionality of the game, environments, gameplay, mechanics, user experience, etc.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2021

In fact, Hypercasual games alone made up for ~45% of 2019’s total download volume across all mobile games. While Hypercasual games IAP is very modest, the estimated ad revenues are over 3B making this the fourth largest genre on mobile in line with Social Casino. Over 2020, YoY downloads for Hypercasual games went from 7.8B

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Game Errors

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’re interested in playing video games but don’t know where to start, here are some tips to help you get started: Decide on a platform Video games can be played on a variety of platforms, including consoles, computers, and mobile devices. Look for games that have a tutorial mode or a beginner difficulty level.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 4, 2023

As one might have expected, we can see several oldies on our list: Bridge Race , Going Balls , Race Master 3D – Car Racing and Car Games 3D: Car Racing. The gameplay uses a simple time-sensitive touch mechanic where a user needs to activate 2D tiles to match the beat of various music tracks being played.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 15, 2023

You join a crew of car mechanics to fix customers' cars, solve match-3 puzzles, and progress through the story. Defining your own niche Although the mobile games market is a bloodbath with numerous games being canceled and studios shutting down, match-3 still seems appealing for teams developing new games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Events with different mechanics sometimes complement each other, but at other times they divert players' attention, resulting in reduced activity and monetization. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics. They just liked the mechanics and continued playing until the event had ended. Try different combos, too.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity is considered the best solution for mobile game development. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects. The game puts players in charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. Perfect for mobile and small game development.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. It was only a matter of time before Call of Duty would find its feet on mobile. So is COD Mobile dead?

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

With multiple weapons and mobility options to choose from, there’s a lot of excitement going on at every level. With new tracks and a variety of game modes, players had the ability to alter driving mechanics and even tweak their vehicles so they were more realistic. GT Advance Championship Racing. Your job is to rescue her.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

From national calendar days to religious holidays, seasonal events are a great way for mobile games to find new and exciting ways to drive player engagement. We’ve updated the blog post with new seasonal event implementation examples and best practices for introducing seasonal events into your mobile game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. It grew the market and became bigger than Hearthstone on mobile. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. I left gamedev entirely for five years, because I was burned out from working on yet another F2P mobile casino game or whatever soulless product would feed my family.” For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is a guest post by Vinayak Sathyamoorthy , Group Product Manager at Reddit, an ex-Zynga Product Manager and an avid mobile gamer. Leave it another Finnish team to build some truly innovative gameplay mechanics in their action strategy title, Battle Legion. read: 5 Reasons Why Command & Conquer Didn’t Become a Rival on Mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Making Call of Duty free Back when CoDO was conceived, consoles didn’t officially exist in China, AAA Mobile gaming was not yet a ‘thing’ and PC gaming mostly happened at Internet Cafes, where gamers paid to sit in front of computers to play, watch videos, eat, smoke and chat.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Simulations can be great games, but they tend not to be a good format for turn-based games with transparent game mechanics. It worked extremely well from a mechanical perspective, which is all we needed for early MP testing before the game even had characters, families, and events.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Mario World was a fresh take but just like most of the publisher’s games on mobile, it sadly tanked. The biggest string-matching game by far is Best Fiends, which is categorized as a Puzzle RPG due to its progression mechanic.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’m reminded a bit of those mobile games where the first 10 minutes is like this absolutely incredible looking and sounding thing, and then you’re sort of “dropped off” into the same old 2015 gacha clone looking thing. He can save the world or he can just spend all his time doing kart racing. That would be bad.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

For the longest time, I've wanted to make a gay mobile game, but I was unsure how to get my queer politics past Apple and Google's anti-sexuality censors. However, the photorealistic 3D graphics of my past games are too heavy and slow for a mobile browser, so I need to make a 2D game even though I've neglected my 2D visual skills.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Currently, mobile and web platforms are not available, with support likely coming in Godot 4.1. This change aims to address various popping issues, race conditions, and overall poor resampling behavior. Previous versions of the engine provided users with a powerful, but obscured mechanism for preparing imported 3D assets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Going mobile Of course, F2O is not a benevolent act from well funded games trying to give it back to the community. However, if blockchain games want to be relevant in a scale that matters, they need to take the front page out of that book: existing in mobile devices. Handing out NFTs like candy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet something has changed in the last years as mobile free to play has matured and become global. Many of the new games that are gaining ground are coming from developers like Lilith , Firecraft Studios (Matchington Mansion), FunPlus (King of Avalon, Guns of Glory) and IGG (Lords Mobile). During the past year Lilith has been on a roll!

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