Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Following the high-level trend of hybridization across mobile , more and more casual games have started introducing competitive elements into their live event strategies. With that in mind, are mobile game studios missing out on an important opportunity here to boost engagement?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite being the smallest category by revenue share on mobile, 2020 was a very good year for Sports & Racing as it breached the billion-dollar mark , with combined revenue of $1.2B Sports saw YoY growth of +29% ($880M) , while Racing registered +23% YoY ($331M). Games that have a huge fan base.

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Game Refinery

JULY 27, 2022

Year after year, more and more game companies have started to participate in Pride celebrations. In this blog post, we would like to highlight some examples of how Pride showed on mobile during this year’s Pride month. Zooba: Zoo Battle Royale Games (Wildlife Studios). Conclusion.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

They say imitation is a form of flattery, and there’s no shortage of mobile games that share a striking similarity with other popular titles in the PC, console and mobile markets. Why isn’t there a mobile version of Fall Guys? Stumble Guys vs.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Whether you’re a casual gamer looking for some entertainment or a dedicated hardcore game enthusiast, today, we have curated a list of the best high-graphics games for Android just for you. Let’s explore the Top 10 Mobile Game Development without wasting your precious time! So, are you excited to take a look?

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delabs partners with Web3 community platform Delabs, the Web3-focused arm of South Korean game development company 4:33 Creative Lab, announced a new partnership with Web3 community platform Galxe, for its Rumble Racing Star, previously featured in GameDaily. The game’s open beta test is set for this month.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Vibrating controller What followed was a series of visits to a neighbourhood gaming arcade to play games on the PlayStation. He fell in love with driving games like C3 Racing, Forza, Turismo, and Project Scars. He kept going to gaming arcades, using the coins he saved from lunch and transport money.

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Instead, I want to explore the role of a gaming CMO in setting teams up for success and the risk that some leaders may actually be incentivising a race to the bottom. Gaming UA teams are primarily, if not entirely, focused on optimization.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2023

Written by Tiffany Keller , who is a Director of Product and investor with a decade of experience in mobile games across Scopely, Activision Blizzard, Miniclip, and Zynga. Can slow-rolling UGC pack the punch Mediatonic needs to defend the knockout genre on the console before mobile competitors eat their lunch?

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The longer they’re in your game, the more revenue you make. Unlike with mobile games, none of these ads disrupt the gameplay. But instead, we’re seeing ads on billboards and signs in the games – like real ones you would see in the street. We see this a lot in mobile games. Offer daily challenges and rewards.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Verdict: CORRECT (1 Point) #3 Paid UA Becomes a Break-Even Game Advertising is a commodity and in a race to the bottom. Instead of killing a project they make it an Apple Arcade game and move the team to work on something else as Arcade games don’t require post-launch work.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

We use them to achieve the highest level of photorealism in video games. Cross-platform Mobile Game Development From casual games to action-packed RPGs, our Unreal developers are experts at creating cross-platform game apps, with proficiency in video game mechanics , responsive UI features, stunning designs, and user engagement features.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Microsoft revealed that it saw PC Game Pass subscriptions increase by 159 percent year over year and that more than 20 million people have streamed games on Xbox Cloud Gaming, up from 10 million earlier this year. Kress’ third point was that Microsoft’s mobile expansion in the current environment is unrealistic.

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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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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Now she builds strategy for and sources leading-edge content for Oculus, lectures on the intersection of art and code for UCSC in Games and Playable Media, wrangles a monthly column on science-fiction in videogames over at Amazing Stories and writes about how all these app-driven superpowers are going to change the human race.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 15, 2023

The game can be defined as a male-focused match-3 with car restoration and customization as the theme. 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

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Nancy is the Head of User Acquisition and Growth Strategy at East Side Games , a publisher known for IP-driven hit games such as “The Office,” “Trailer Park Boys,” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Ludovic is an International Growth Consultant at Google who advises mobile gaming clients on their international expansion strategies.

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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. In this article, you can take a quick look at some of the highly-rated and compelling games created with Unity. Perfect for mobile and small game development.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 4, 2023

Top 10 Games By Downloads Now, it’s time for a deep dive into the top 10 hypercasual games by downloads. 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.

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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 6, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets. Sports & Racing Games in 2021. In 2021 Sports category on mobile hit the wall.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

You can check out one of our past newsletter articles (read: A race to the bottom on creator royalties? There is a huge value misalignment within the blockchain games industry. Seasoned executives, developers, designers, and many more made the move to blockchain games. discussing it in more detail.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019. In fact, Hypercasual games alone made up for ~45% of 2019’s total download volume across all mobile games. Surplus of games. Fast to follow.

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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 29, 2024

But for the vast majority of mobile games, this approach will not work. Premium titles stretch mechanics throughout the game to keep players engaged after even 10, 20, or 100 hours of gameplay. Or it's quite common to refer to competitors where the introduction of mechanics is spread evenly over the first few sessions.

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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. Strategy Games in 2020 Strategy games, which are composed out of 7 sub-genres, generated $5B in net revenue during 2020 growing IAP revenues by 21% while the downloads were up 9% year-over-year.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Mobile gaming market is close to what an economist would call a perfectly competitive market (except for some categories such card and fighting games - looking at you, Herthstone and Contest of Champions). The publisher/developer usually base their launch decision on a hypothesis of the scalability of user acquisition.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

Thus we refer here only to games with explicit currencies (gold, crystals, etc) and item economies (like weapons, items, potions). This only applies to game items or assets formally organized in a clear increasing power or utility progression as part of the game’s core design (Diablo / Wow Loot, Animal Crossing rooms & furniture, etc ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Owning and investing in a key mobile IP could help not only grow its casual business and diversify away from the struggling social casino genre but also make it a more attractive investment. Rovio has one of the most famous mobile gaming IPs on the planet, Angry Birds.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In order to achieve that goal, the game had to overcome two major challenges: it had to be free-to-play and it had to appeal to the Chinese audience. Given the lack of copyright enforcement, all western games were pirated, making premium games a losing proposition. Nobody believed mobile shooters could be big in the west.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In this infinite runner mobile game, players are always given three “missions” which encourage them to play the game in an unusual way (“Have a near miss with a missile” or “Rub your head against the roof for 500 meters”), which is a surprisingly effective way to change the feel of a game that one might play over and over again hundreds of times.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Western casual games category broken down into genres and sub-genres. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year. We’re the first to admit that we got that one wrong!

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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. The game released worldwide just this past month (after spending well over two years in various stages of soft-launch) and is starting to rank in the Top 500 grossing charts on iPhone.

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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. You can date in this game, but only women, because Adachi is a man. That would be bad.

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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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