Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

After soaring to new heights during the lockdowns, mobile gaming got hit by platform privacy changes and an overall decrease in engagement as the world opened up again. What continues to make mobile games appealing is the unrivaled player base, established distribution platforms, and performance marketing, which enables games to scale.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

To keep the game exciting, the game is often updated by adding new modes, features, levels, etc Our Unreal Game Development Services & Solutions As a leading Unreal Game Development company , Logic Simplified is committed to creating high-quality, cross-platform games that are safe, ethical, and entertaining.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2023

Fall Guys, a knockout party game by Epic Games’ Mediatonic studio, is following the heels of Fortnite’s blockbuster “Creative Mode” circa 2018 with their own “Creative Construction” mode. Mediatonic must cherry-pick UGC rounds to appear on the main menu, although the team reports working on discoverability throughout 2023.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What continues to make mobile games an appealing market is their unrivaled player base, established distribution platforms, and performance marketing which enables titles to scale. These are the Mobile Games Defying Economic Headwinds — and Why In data.ai Read the full analysis here Download the report here ?️ Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Between hardware costs, bandwidth costs, cost of studios, distribution, and engineering there is no way. After all, there are very few truly cross-platform titles. The team also discusses Modern Warfare II topping $800M in sales, Rovio's new Barcelona studio, and Netflix's acquisition of SpryFox. raises $8.4M

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It lowers consumer price expectations and drives the devaluation of gaming content in a cannibalistic race to the bottom. Not to mention, tech giants have a shaky history with managing first-party studios, including Microsoft itself with Bungie, Rare, Lionhead, and 343 Industries.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Yet the hard truth is that these initiatives by the platforms have done little except prolonged development cycles and created jobs inside the platforms themselves. Likelihood of the prediction: 87% #2 Publishers Push to Off-Platform Payments What we love most about Apple and Google is that they know your credit card number.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

For many game studios, this can be challenging as it implies technologies and resources beyond their focus of making the experience fun. We’ll be using a sample game that you might be familiar with if you’ve played around with GameLift earlier: the Mega Frog Race Unity game that was first introduced on this AWS Game Tech blog a while ago.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

The console business is not growing in terms of audience and time spent on platforms. 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. In fact, according to Newzoo, hours played on the console went down last year.

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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 13, 2021

The biggest growth was seen by GameJam and Supersonic Studios , though both entered 2020 with very modest installs compared to the established players. Crazy Labs, Supersonic Studios and Game Jam were the other super stars of 2020. Supersonic Studios’ success is straightforward to explain. Thanks Playrix for the idea!

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When game developer and publisher Milestone released a third-person racing game based on Mattel’s Hot Wheels toy line, “Hot Wheels Unleashed,” in September 2021, it quickly gained a dedicated following. The game sold more than one million copies in less than three months, making it Milestone’s fastest-selling title ever.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Several options will be available based on attendees' interests: platformer shooter, space shooter with enemy AI, drift racing game, and pong with a twist - destructive environment. Krzysztof Jankowski is the prolific coder of FOSS-focused Polish studio P1X , and worked on projects such as Tanks of Freedom , Piradice and BitWars.

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Filmustage

MAY 3, 2021

Of course, Netflix broke different records even before the pandemic, but the difficult 2020 has dramatically changed the priorities of many studios. And the unity is also depicted by the diversity of races and genders. Therefore, one by one, they rushed to release their own services, where films and series will be distributed.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

As the developer behind popular video game franchise “Super Mega Baseball,” the studio has taken each installment to new heights, growing its own capabilities and talent base in tandem. Centralized development on AWS has also made it easier for the team to deploy the game across platforms and facilitate cross-platform play.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This prediction post is sponsored by PlayerWON™ , the only engagement and monetization platform for free-to-play PC and console games. Sports & Racing Games in 2021. In our Taxonomy found on Sensor Tower, we break down Sports into two genres: Sports and Racing.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 24, 2023

Through their data, Happy Volcano realized that people were far more likely to drop off if they didn’t play through some of the single-player races before hopping over to multiplayer. “It As a player, it’s frustrating to join a multiplayer race and get absolutely thrashed immediately. You just end up leaving.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

. “What started as a thesis project at the University of Southern California became a game development journey encompassing VR hardware and software development, to gaming for VR consumer platforms, and even dabbling in location-based VR experiences before COVID hit,” shared Silkin.

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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. And… that’s what I did professionally for almost 10 years: released many games on different platforms, working for multiple companies. For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. How do you deal with that?

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

The examples we’ve included here are only a small handful of the thousands of seasonal event implementation examples on the GameRefinery SaaS platform, so if you’re interested in seeing more examples, check out the platform. Consider a phased approach for the release of new content rather than releasing everything on day one.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

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. Reports of exploitation by creators of other creators (children and adults) as well as of creators by the platform itself abound. The way to ensure this is designing a market for oversupply.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. The studio then switched to developing content for mobile and created a pair of exclusive titles for China’s WeChat social platform in 2013. TiMi’s port of PUBG was called PUBG: Army Attack.

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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. Failing to get buyers speaks volumes about the quality of Hatch.

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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. But please keep in mind that Hearthstone is cross-platform title making likely over 80% of its revenue on PC. Riot’s card battler is very well executed cross-platform game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. In hindsight, we should have used the Geeklab platform or any other similar tool to test the market’s interest for the product we wanted to build. I doubt it.

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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. Nobody believed mobile shooters could be big in the west.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios. However, there were a handful of prominent studios that thrived with remote work emerging as exceptions to the general trend. Console publishers rely on blockbuster franchises.

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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. This royalty was as high as 20% depending on the platform and the conditions of the market. Missed a previous newsletter? You can find them all here. ?

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