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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Try-before-you-buy was introduced in the early 2000s and perfected by Big Fish Games , who released via download a game every day that was free for the first hour and then the player would have the option of purchasing the full game. Build a loop A successful subscription plan should be tied to engagement in the underlying game.

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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. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

Polygon has a huge ecosystem of games, art collections, big retail brands (like Starbucks), and so many more. IMX, on the other hand, has been a game-focused ecosystem that was working on games internally as well as with external developers. Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ? TWiG 228 - Sega Buys Rovio!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

Moreover, different thematics appeal to different people – mobile games will relaunch the same game with a reskin (ex: change the dragons to fairies ), to attempt to appeal to a broader audience. If you replaced Gamestop with a staid company like Sherwin-Williams Paint, retail traders would show far less interest.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Some people may be familiar with my past work : uncanny CG beefcake sex games that toy with hardcore gamer aesthetics, which only run on laptop / desktop computers. 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.

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