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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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Beyond his role at ADMI, he passionately nurtures ChezaCheza , his game development studio. He fell in love with driving games like C3 Racing, Forza, Turismo, and Project Scars. He chuckles when he recalls his first encounter with C3 Racing, “I remember the controller shook and I was so startled I dropped it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

. - Executive of a small developer who has till date amassed well over 100M installs on mobile The end of discovery also means that there will be no indie breakouts from small indie developers. Join one of the few powerful game companies taking over mobile. Exit mobile. Instead, the indie developers will have three options.

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Game Refinery

JULY 27, 2022

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). Wildlife Studios kicked the month off by announcing “ Faye ,” the first transgender character in Zooba: Zoo Battle Royale Games. Conclusion.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Let’s explore the Top 10 Mobile Game Development without wasting your precious time! Developed by Bethesda Game Studios, it was initially met with mixed reviews during its early access phase but later garnered attention and commercial success. So, are you excited to take a look?

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 25, 2019

Welcome to the third episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile. SuperScale = Growth Partner.

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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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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. They’ve built a big publishing team, acquired studios, and set records on how much game industry professionals can expect to be paid. It’s not how you start the race but how you finish it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But there are hopes for mobile, too as Microsoft announced that it’s building an Xbox mobile gaming store to take on Apple and Google last month. Between hardware costs, bandwidth costs, cost of studios, distribution, and engineering there is no way. Games that are essentially the same on both mobile and console, like Fortnite.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

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. We use them to achieve the highest level of photorealism in video games.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We’ve reviewed three of GameFam’s top published games: Twilight Daycare by Night Studio, All Star Tower Defense by Top Down Games, and Car Dealership Tycoon by Foxzie. Unlike with mobile games, none of these ads disrupt the gameplay. We see this a lot in mobile games. So what’s their secret? Here’s what we found.

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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

MARCH 11, 2024

Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. The subscription model, and Game Pass in particular, lowers consumer price expectations and drives the devaluation of gaming content in a cannibalistic race to the bottom. Transitioning to remote negatively impacted the productivity of most game studios causing delays.

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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. Unity is considered the best solution for mobile game development. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Consumer, however, has been less consistent – including the painfully visible retreat from the mobile phone OS market amid the declining relative importance of PCs. It lowers consumer price expectations and drives the devaluation of gaming content in a cannibalistic race to the bottom.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. So, they are targeting a supposedly blue spot in what can be described as the reddest ocean in 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. Supersonic Studios’ success is straightforward to explain.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. Sports & Racing Games in 2021. In 2021 Sports category on mobile hit the wall. In our Taxonomy found on Sensor Tower, we break down Sports into two genres: Sports and Racing. EA’s Real Racing represents 70% of the revenues in Racing Simulator.

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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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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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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

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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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. Ni-Zhan was the local competitor to Crossfire and the first FPS developed by a then unknown internal Studio called TiMi. There was no concept of events or free/ earnable content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

GoPractice is also highly recommended by some of the top mobile games companies, which is how I originally got connected with Oleg. Here’s how I view data-driven culture In my opinion, most teams working on mobile games don’t fully use the potential of data. Neither gameplay, nor controls were adapted to a mobile devices.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

One is the average ARPU LTV for mobile F2P is close - $87 in 2022 ( Statista ). Doing this without kicking off a “race to the bottom” positive feedback loop which takes asset prices close to zero is a non-trivial problem. Another is that an individual microtransaction can go all the way down to $0.29.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With all due respect to the team, which was spun out of Rovio itself, this deal was a much riskier proposition than being more aggressive with marketing its top titles or investing in talented studios already working on much more easily scalable games with promising KPIs.

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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. AppLovin, the US-based ad network turned publisher , which came clear about their investment into Firecraft Studios, acquired Belka. Western casual games category broken down into genres and sub-genres.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

This could mean creating VR experiences that can be enjoyed by people with mobility issues, or developing AR applications that are useful for people with visual impairments.” There is concern about whether Apple’s devices would support Windows for development, considering most gaming studios use Windows PCs.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For the past decade, we’ve looked at mobile gaming as the driver of gaming growth, both in terms of new players and revenue generated. Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios. year-on-year increase. None of them wants to present a down year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

We look into the interesting world of creator royalties and whether games, especially those in the blockchain space, will join the race to the bottom. So, I think it’s safe to assume that games will not join this race to the bottom and will try to stay afloat through free mints and the creator royalties accrued from the secondary market.

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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).

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