OPM Jobs

MARCH 31, 2023

For those who are struggling with the different stages of their journey, seeing people that do look like them as options to play as a hero in a video game can be very validating.

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

” They expressed hope that Apple’s presence would push competitors like Meta (formerly Facebook) to create more compelling VR and AR offerings. Silkin drew a comparison between the potential rivalry between Apple and Meta in the VR and AR space to that between Tesla and Toyota in the automotive industry.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

By combining live game interactions with meta data, a richer picture can be derived allowing questions to be asked like “Do players stay in a game with many toxic interactions?” This service can be used for many purposes such as extracting entities, topics and key phrases from text.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2022

What’s even more relevant for our topic here, there are strong arguments to support the idea that mobile dominance as a gaming platform will actually increase in the following years : The huge casual player segment of the market is an audience almost exclusive to mobile and is unlikely to buy more specialized and expensive gaming platforms.

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Game Biz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mobile Game Monetization in 2022: Navigating the eCPM Decline In the last six months, we’ve shared two posts on the eCPM trend due to the interest our clients and other developers have shown in the topic. In our last article on eCPM trends , we covered some basics, including: • What is eCPM? How Does eCPM in 2022 Compare to 2021?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

If that was the intention, perhaps it could make sense to launch globally early on , and use the learnings to continue building a deeper meta, liveops capacity and additional content while waiting for the approval to release in China. This forces players to rethink their previous strategy, and rotates the decks and units dominating the meta.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

In the next few chapters, we’ll visit these topics one by one. During this relatively long period (we could split this period into another 2~3 phases to be more specific, but we are not covering this topic here), the experience of paying players will be better. Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The meta is somewhat similar to Best Fiends or Supercell’s previous Smash Land : A saga-like map with levels that players must complete to progress, while simultaneously upgrading a series of characters (more on this later). And the meta component outside the main puzzle gameplay is more limited.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

No doubt this is a deeply discussed topic for a genre that still shows great returns. Further, it introduced light meta progression layers to drive medium-long retention while creating ample number of live-ops hooks to drive monetisation. And it continues to do so with none other than the Kardashians! And it’s clearly working!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Ad creative is also the topic of Prediction 2. The sequel, Best Fiends Stars , shares the core gameplay but cuts away most of the complexity in the meta game. As far as Hidden Hotel is concerned, it seems like we have come a sort of a full circle in meta game innovation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Even better, the team has showcased a holistic focus on the game: Masterfully balanced the gameplay with regular nerfs/buffs, refreshing the meta Designed for both elder and new players, often forgotten by mature games Took risks (e.g., introduced battle pass relatively early and with one of the finest implementations in the mid-core space).

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

To improve this, we expect Snap to eventually add game modes with requirements, missions targeting the usage of specific cards and strategies, and a very active meta-content rotation strategy. On top of that, Seasons so far do not change that much the meta, since they add very little new content and don’t rebalance the old.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

At that point, the game truly becomes a game-as-a-service: trophy resets, meta rotations through rebalances and new content. This will heavily affect the meta and make players learn again how to properly use and counter those units, while also inviting users to try out different strategies and minis.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Of course this change comes with significant balance repercussions, which we’ll cover when we get to discussing that topic further below. Among the new Terminals added to Garrisons, we also have new hacks enabling the download of patrol navigation and security data for the next map, intel which can be quite useful given its scope.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

Mid-core games tend to focus on deeper meta-games that offer good long-term monetization. IDFA IDFA deprecation was the hottest topic in mobile gaming and RPGs took a big hit too. FPS/3PS grew by 30% and became half a billion-dollar sub-genre in 2021. Thus these games rely more on performance marketing to find high-value players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Playrix Approach of Performance Marketing This topic is explained in some of the articles posted in Deconstructor of Fun but at its simplest, there are 2 metrics that we look into to understand how high we can scale a game, CPI (Cost per Install) vs ROAS (Return on Ad Spend). And revenue followed suit….

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

The meta is a combination of social and decorative-lite, which, like its switcher, is formed from a combination inspired by Toon Blast and Coin Master. It also could be a reason why Dream went with a strong switcher and traded the full-decorate meta with a lite version. It even gives you coins.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

According to Sky Mavis’ last update on the topic, DAUs are slightly north of 2M. This is because typical F2P turn-based RPGs usually want their players to end up spending more time with the money-making meta gameplay systems versus worrying too much about decision making in the core gameplay systems.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This week, we get into one of the hottest topics, whether the App Store’s NFT guidelines will hurt or help blockchain games. Apple’s latest updates to the App Store Review Guidelines shed some light on this positioning while creating even more questions about the topic. In Today’s Email ?

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