Deconstructor of Fun

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. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. Wooga GmbH.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Depending on these, you can make a budget-friendly game or the next GTA. Keep reading this blog to understand how mobile game development costs differ from AAA games. Will it be a 2D puzzle or an AAA game like Grand Theft Auto V? Believe us, it’s worth every minute of your time. And what genre will you pick?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The motivation for this article is that many devs asked me to write it for a long time. Despite being the lead developer of Godot, I have almost 20 years of experience developing and shipping games, and a decade of experience as technical consultant. Elaborated below: 1) Who will play the game? Do not bother with design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 24, 2023

But this write-up is not about Playrix's ability to out-execute rivals. Instead, we’ll be talking about how Playrix outperformed most of the games industry in their ability to work from home efficiently and at scale. It’s a breath of fresh air to endless calendar puzzles where you’re trying to set up a meeting with people.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Cookie Run is has some imporessive traction in the Western markets, which may potentially turn this game into a proper worldwide hit. The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world. Interactive Facilities for Some Cookies.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

How you divide your time between making games and living "real life" ? When I write, music is helpful. Dividing my life between making games and real life is a struggle. Do you ever think about that segment of games? It's all about licensed games, quick disposable mobile games, or these odd social website type games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. Kudos to Neil Long of Mobilegamer.biz for joining the event and writing the notes. Kress said that the current’s market’s woes were “all Apple’s fault”. “We

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Most mobile gaming companies bet on incremental innovation as their gateway to success. They make marginal improvements to an existing game, hoping to convince enough players to switch to their game. This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The responses represent a diverse set of developers – they work for small studios with less than 20 people (58%), medium studios of up to 150 people (26%), and large studios of over 150 people (16%) that develop games across 22 genres including action (33%), role playing (30%), and puzzle (22%). AWS for Games Solutions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

GoPractice is a tool I would have loved to have at the beginning of my product management career and it’s a tool that I love having now, a decade into making and operating free-to-play games. GoPractice is also highly recommended by some of the top mobile games companies, which is how I originally got connected with Oleg.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With the backing of the beloved Warcraft IP and Blizzard's reputation, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to break new ground in the mobile gaming landscape and carve out its own niche among players seeking a fresh take on the genre. Warcraft Rumble is a mobile action-strategy game, similar to Clash Royale, set in the Warcraft universe.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Expect more acquisitions, new game releases and revenue diversification efforts (also outside mobile games) from Playtika, as it prepares to bulk up before an imminent 2020 IPO. This can be seen in the image below, where Simulation, Merge Puzzle and MOBA titles from Big Fish and Plarium are currently in soft-launch.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These efforts were hampered by what it identified as increased market competition, particularly in the puzzle genre. Niklas also owns a personal stake, with each of these shareholders owning a combined current market value (at the time of writing) of approximately €229 million, and accounting for over 30% of shares.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the backing of the beloved Warcraft IP and Blizzard's reputation, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to break new ground in the mobile gaming landscape and carve out its own niche among players seeking a fresh take on the genre. Warcraft Rumble is a mobile action-strategy game, similar to Clash Royale, set in the Warcraft universe.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Even with the boost brought by Mario Kart, Racing only accounted for approximately 1% of the mobile market revenue ( compared to RPG which accounts for 30%+, or strategy/puzzle that account for 15% ). 2020 Predictions: a macro-level view on the Racing genre Mobile revenues are clearly skewed towards some key genres.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

As of the moment of writing Beatstar, it’s the 33rd most downloaded game in the US on iPhone. Music games haven’t traditionally been very well monetizing on mobile. The hard lock on waiting feels much more punishing in this game than say in a puzzle game when you run out of lives-.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

The round also saw contributions from two top tier funds; Balderton Capital and Makers Fund Dream Games (who are hiring…) is now responsible for setting a record for the single largest Series A round ever raised by a Turkish company. Thus a full breakdown of the newly released game is warranted. It made $5.1 With $3.7B

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

But quite frankly, the game felt underwhelming both from product position and gameplay experience. The second Clash game was Clash Mini, which entered soft launch around three months from writing this article. Otherwise, the resets will become a reason or an excuse to leave the game.

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