PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

There has been a lot of talk about the future of Hypercasual games: how the market has been in stagnation, making studios slowly but steadily look for opportunities in the fraternal Hybridcasual. We can take inspiration from content going viral on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and indeed, we have created hit games in 2023 by doing so.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’re also zooming in on trends that’ll have your game soaring across platforms, rocking real-time multiplayer, and even letting players team up and build together. Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

And… that’s what I did professionally for almost 10 years: released many games on different platforms, working for multiple companies. This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. I do sometimes have ‘flashes’ -or dreams- of cool ideas like a gameplay mechanic, other times a whole story or environment.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. It was a quirky story-first 3D platformer with jokes that were actually funny. The most epic public post-mortem ever.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

These points are informed by my research into the topic and conversations I’ve had with platform operators and gaming and ad tech executives: When will ATT be made mandatory? Background on how ATT will change the way that ad platforms can target users can be found in this post and this post. More thoughts in this post.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Now cross-platform game development with Unity is possible. Or do the two platforms remain equal? But is there an ultimate winner?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

What we believe separates our market analysis from other great ones you have read is that the predictions are written by professionals working in gaming studios around the World and strengthened by feedback from our nearly thousand people-strong community of game industry veterans. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios.

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

Although humans still produce the finished design, AI art speeds up design stages like brainstorming, idea generation, conceptualization, prototyping, and client pitches. It expands the avenues where people can buy and appreciate artwork, helping artists and designers showcase and sell their creations on different platforms.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

They boast industry’s largest in-app video ad network, a robust mobile ad mediation platform, and a data-driven user acquisition platform. Even though Candy Crush Saga had roaring success with the match-3 switcher, King was not the first company to create the mechanic. In other words, everything you need for game growth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. The only examples of F2P shooters at scale were Korean (Crossfire) and Chinese (Assault Fire/Ni-Zhan), both focused on pay-to-win mechanics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Simply put, players of hypercasual games are simply switching from one short-lived game to another causing money to change hands largely between hypercasual publishers and the mediation platforms. More recently, and while writing this post, Voodoo also announced a new Montreal studio that wants to build games “beyond hypercasual”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. The only true bright spot was Art of War , which despite prototype level production quality has scaled up to over 5M in net revenue a month with no stop in sight! Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. And most recently, Travis founded Carbonated Inc, a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Do not fall in love with product, fall in love with building a really successful studio by shipping and learning as quickly as possible.

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