iXie gaming

JUNE 16, 2023

In today’s ever-evolving digital landscape, the gaming industry is undergoing remarkable growth, driven by the soaring popularity of online and mobile gaming. Traditionally, game development necessitated the use of intricate and platform-specific software.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

A solid game outsourcing partnership is reason enough to see your project as 50% complete. In a competitive game, players’ initial focus is on the visual component. Working with an established game art outsourcing firm with a solid track record alleviates any worry about deadlines or allocating internal resources.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 1, 2023

CG Spectrum Institute (CGSI) has launched three accredited creative courses for the film and games industry: Animation & VFX , Digital Art , and Game Development , which can be pursued as bachelor’s degrees or diplomas. The global entertainment and media value currently sits at over $2.32

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 6, 2023

Luis enrolled in the Advanced Digital Illustration Course at CG Spectrum and, before long, landed a job as a freelance digital illustrator at the global indie game dev studio Monumental! I’ve been commissioned to do a total of seven card illustrations for Monumental's Mythgard , a collectible card game (CCG). Final color sketch.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Klaas van der Stroom , Business Developer at Representing Games : “If you really want to build relationships go to the smaller events.” Plus publishers and scouts are fully booked with hopeful devs eager to show off their games. You can look at your game and find a publisher that already has similar games in its portfolio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. FRUSTRATION: These blog posts can also annoy game executives and senior leaders. Since 2018, Supercell has failed to ship a game that could survive a soft launch.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 15, 2024

More than 50 games in the pipeline, at least 10 games per year at the latest stage of development. With over two decades of gaming industry experience, she brings a wealth of insights to the table. Diversified Gaming Portfolio. Varied Business Models. About 1500 people full-time in core locations.

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CG Spectrum

MARCH 13, 2023

CGI art is commonly used in film, TV, and games but is also used for advertising, visualization , and VR (virtual reality). 3D Modeling : is a subcategory of CGI art. 3D modelers digitally build, sculpt, and detail 3D characters, props, vehicles, and sets using computer software and a tablet. Show how you got there.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Games are more than just a diversion. However, developing games has become very time-consuming and expensive. This is why game art studios have emerged over the past decade. Instead of working on the next big blockbuster title alone, game art studios help companies create their titles with minimal financial investment.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. Former Disney and NBCU Execituve Talk the Death of the Games-as-App Before going deeper, let us define the terms: Hypercasual games are the bubble gum of the gaming industry.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

There’s the understandable dismay about people losing their jobs, which I, too, believe is detrimental to the long-term health of the video games industry. Rather than taking on temp workers and running them ragged, game makers now absorb higher costs by letting go of regular employees and argue that the cost of development has gone up.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Supercell CEO’s annual blog post is a personal, inspirational, and sincere communication method from the top brass of a major mobile games company. Supercell hasn’t released new games since 2018. Their live games portfolio is not growing. Now the folks starting a new game team will be treated like “startup entrepreneurs”.

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Moonmana

JULY 11, 2022

Creating custom game assets is believed to be the most important and time-consuming stage in game development. Working with outsource game development providers, you can eliminate long-lasting hiring processes, onboarding, teams management and continuous reviews. What are the benefits of outsourcing 3D game art?

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Game creation is a lot of work. Even a simple game may require participation from several teams with varying levels of skill. If you’re producing the game by yourself, the cost of errors brought on by a lack of knowledge or resources is rather significant. You don’t have to go alone, which is wonderful news.

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Game Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Evolving technology is transforming consumer behavior and, in the gaming business, you need to adapt to ensure that you stay relevant in the ‘new normal’. In this evolving advertising landscape, teams need to establish a clear test-and-learn pathway and adopt a fresh approach to gaming marketing to ensure continued innovation and growth.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Game development is a complex process that involves a lot of different specialists and consists of a number of steps and smaller tasks. . To develop a high-quality and competitive game, you should carefully execute every stage, step by step. This is what players first pay attention to, comparing your game with others.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The offer is restricted to developers making games for non-commercial purposes on non-console platforms. “Our success is measured by the number of people making games!” ” GameMaker is a relatively straightforward, drag-and-drop engine, mainly used for 2D games, and is popular with beginners.

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CG Spectrum

APRIL 3, 2023

The annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) was held last week in San Francisco, boasting 28,000 attendees ! Penny was kind enough to share her experience at GDC and why she believes it's such a valuable event for people looking to break into the games industry. Meet Penny!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

This post is written by our friends, the fantastic Game Bakery substack team. However, the gameplay in Dislyte is nothing new, adopting Lilith’s best practices for CCG-RPG games with validated gameplay, solid meta-features, and gacha-based monetization. The game is, in a way, a follow-up to the widely successful AFK Arena.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

A couple of weeks as ago we had the pleasure to have Lloyd Melnick on the Deconstructor of Fun podcast to discuss the subscription business model. Since then, I’ve read Lloyd’s article “ Subscriptions: The new weapon in the game monetization arsenal ” half a dozen times and turned from a doubter of subscriptions into a believer.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Short Term: Resume, Portfolio, Interview Preparation You need to set aside time to look over your resume and think about how to tailor it to the sort of job you want. Artists should select and update new pieces to their portfolios. But until you reach the goal, the game is about damage mitigation and loss prevention.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Star Rating on iOS and was elected Game of the Year on both the App Store and Google Play. Even if the game wasn’t hitting the financial and franchise expectations, EA Mobile has no leeway to be picky. Apex was one of the largest games in the company’s steeply declining mobile portfolio. source: Data.ai ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. One of the most popular things during the past three years has been predicting the end of Hypercasual business model. So why are right this time around?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Unlike the years before, we decided to really leverage our fantastic community of senior games industry folks to present you with trends that will shape our industry during the year. The k-factor, which measures the virality of a game, is at an all-time low. Is it the artwork in itself that is not selling the game? Exit mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This game, which combines Match-3 core with merge progression originally launched globally in the second half of 2020. The game looked promising, scaling quickly towards $2M a month in revenue - a promising number for a smallish Finnish studio. The core gameplay was true and tested Match-3 puzzle while the meta game was merge inspired.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 2, 2021

Written by Anette Staloy , co-founder of Women in Games Norway and Chief Marketing Officer at Dirtybit, and Tiffany Keller , Director of Product at Sybo and mentor at Game Changers. What was positive about the dark moment is how the games industry came together and showed support. Several organizations provide guidance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

This week, I will test this broader industry hypothesis against our very own gaming industry. Most of us have been in games for a long time and are now working remotely “A lot of places have room to do better. Over half of the respondents (57%) work directly on game development. Likely both.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 25, 2019

Despite being launched only 3 year ago, SuperScale has partnered with several developers and scaled multiple games onto top of the charts around the World. Is there a set of data points that would inform a developer or a publisher of the potential of a game to become successful? This is the question most of us ask over and over again.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2020

Some of the best ideas in the gaming industry were inspired by other games and sometimes even created within other games. In our taxanomy, Auto-Chess games don’t yet have their own bubble. The Very Brief History of Auto Chess Games. Please take the numbers with a giant grain of salt.

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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. This has become especially prevalent in the puzzle subgenre, with around 75% of casual puzzle games in the US top-grossing 200 implementing these features.

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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 Designing

JANUARY 23, 2023

For artists today, there are many options for creating, maintaining, and sharing your portfolio. This article will cover everything you need to know about building your digital portfolio, the tools to use, and why you should start making a portfolio now. What Are Portfolio Websites? Why Are They Important?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the last and, the most important piece of the “scaling” puzzle focusing on the nothing less than the game that is being promoted and the teams that are promoting it. Hoping that your game is going to become a cultural phenomenon is a super long shot and often requires access to a top IP that can be very expensive.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2022

How to grow your games in diverse markets Many Western publishers focus their efforts on English-speaking countries because they are most familiar with these markets, which tend to command a higher average revenue per paying user. When we talk about the US and the UK in some of the more popular gaming categories, CPIs start to creep up.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 11, 2023

Professional 3D character modeler J Hill shares two key tips on how to become a better 3D artist and explains why they are so important to improving your craft. He is currently employed at Californian indie game development studio Turtle Rock Studios as a Lead Character Artist. Some of the reasons might surprise (and motivate) you!

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Get ready for a real treat if you've ever been curious about the M&A in the gaming industry. We're about to explore what a typical work-week looks like for a Mergers & Acquisitions executive, navigate through the major obstacles that can obstruct deals, and stay at the forefront of the latest trends in the gaming industry M&A.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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