Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Positive test results on the other hand would encourage the company to increase funding for the team and thus grow their runway and perhaps team size. It’s also important to point out that there were three key topics that the blog post didn’t mention. Nor is it a company that is looking for funding or an exit.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 28, 2018

We're interested in any Godot-related topic. A 5 min presentation of your game would be welcome, and a 30 min talk or workshop is fine too if the topic is worth it :) Even longer workshops could be imagined (e.g. We put some funds aside to cover reasonable travel expenses for events, and that could include you.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

You want to be able to ride that momentum all the way to a successfully funded project, and then well past it. However, there are two other angles we need to approach this topic from to provide a more complete answer to the question of “how do I have the perfect Kickstarter launch day?”

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 20, 2017

On the other hand, the campaign also funds a lot of free content. As the campaign went so much better than anticipated, I don’t even know myself all there is to do: the backers will vote for more than a dozen bonus topics to cover, on top of the planned course. And it’s not done just yet! There’s a few hours left.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 26, 2017

And here we are, two weeks in and already 80% funded, with barely $600 missing to reach our main goal - and it keeps growing slowly but steadily , with a daily influx of new donors. Now, now, that's enough self-gratification for a day, let's go back to our other topic: the Patreon rewards.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

Something that recent events have revealed it’s still an unresolved topic. the short term, this is bad news that will put in jeopardy the plans of many companies, particularly those that were self-funded or will require another funding round soon. And newcomers don’t join.In

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iHobo

JUNE 8, 2022

but those problems are the ones it inherits from Shenmue itself, and as a game that was funded by a Kickstarter pledging to provide a true sequel to 2001's Shenmue II , objecting that it is too much like the games that preceded it might rather miss the point. Shenmue III is not an open world.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

and future releases and many other technical topics :). It is a fable-based RPG cofunded by the MEDIA fund of the European Union which will be released in 2021/2022. Below you will find the preliminary schedule for GodotCon Poznań, as well as a short description of the talks and the speakers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

I'm sure others have written about the same topic, but this article is written from my own experience, in hopes of it being useful. are still a good place for this, provided your game is interesting enough (more on this topic in question 4). 2) Alpha is great to get funding. An Indie or Experimental Game : Steam, GOG, etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

When discussing the decline of the business, Ilkka mentions three topics: Firstly, it’s the end of the lockdown-induced hyper-growth. They’ll fund you till you starve out the competition. . #4 Supercell missed the boat on performance marketing “We are not heavily dependent on UA, which was negatively impacted by ATT.”

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

But then things happen, in the years in between the community (both users and contributors) grew massively and so did our funding thanks to many generous large donations. Even if we do online calls often, we are all very tired after an hour or two, but meeting in person is a blast where we can have fun all day discussing Godot topics.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

But then things happen, in the years in between the community (both users and contributors) grew massively and so did our funding thanks to many generous large donations. Even if we do online calls often, we are all very tired after an hour or two, but meeting in person is a blast where we can have fun all day discussing Godot topics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

By listing their token in multiple exchanges and collaborating with some of the biggest actors in the space, they built a huge game community and amassed even more funds. Disclaimer Blockchain games and NFTs are very divisive topics that can lead to intense discussions.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

a card game funded on Kickstarter, which is on sale now. Twitter is known for being a great thermometer for trending topics. Here are the bios I use: BrandonGameDev bio: Board game development is a wild, meandering journey. We’re in this together. Made @ WarMachinesCo, making @ BywaysGame. I own and run Pangea Games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Introduction Have you ever been sitting in a meeting – or listening to a podcast, perhaps – where the merits of a game were being discussed and the topic of “Game of the Year” was raised? In our anecdotal experience, the game has been a polarizing topic among industry insiders. Award for Mobile Game of the Year (Feb.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

From our sponsor: Do you need funds to finish, release, or promote your game? If that’s the case, Xsolla Funding Club got you covered. Approved games are placed in the Funding Club for consideration by qualified investors and publishers. In the next few chapters, we’ll visit these topics one by one. Apply today !

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Gaming expert speakers talked about the hottest topics in the gaming industry from 2022 predictions to rising game categories, from blockchain & NFT gaming to launch strategies. Google and DoF brought together the most influential gaming investors, companies, and talents in Istanbul!

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

Decentralize everything and you still have enough funding. And it’s the thing that every blockchain gaming team needs to start working on: the days of riding a 50,000 people Discord community through decentralization is over. It was working for a very brief time, because there was a lot of money up for grabs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As Slush 2023 wraps up, it sparked numerous conversations around the likelihood of small seed-funded gaming ventures growing into substantial teams within the current investment climate. Niklas shares some great tips on the qualities to prioritise and mistakes to avoid.

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Filmustage

MARCH 18, 2022

William is an investor in early-stage technology companies, he has invested in more than 50 startups across Europe to name a few: TechMinsk Ventures , Open Circle Capital , and Courage Ventures Funds. Here are just some of the images from his incredibly informative presentation. We strongly encourage you to listen to our cool guests.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

A cold calculating trader would only care about the outcome, but human beings seem to love watching the outcome unfold - a puzzling topic for economists. The vast majority of traders are no better than random and lose to braindead strategies like passively holding index funds. The reveal itself can be engrossing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Given the massive Series B funding of late, the team definitely has the resources to take on these big opportunities, but the quality of execution is still TBD. According to Sky Mavis’ last update on the topic, DAUs are slightly north of 2M. Ecosystem Fund (8%): These tokens are meant to be used to support the Axie Infinity community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

This led us to think that we should take Godot even more seriously and look for funding to have more work time dedicated to the project. Patreon has proven to be an excellent solution for funding the project and allow me ( Juan ) to work on it full-time. This allowed me to spend more time helping other contributors. Documentation.

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Rindoku

MAY 8, 2017

Kind of a no brainer but if you’re a developer looking for funds and exposure, these are the people you want to talk to. That’s a topic for another article but suffice it to say that shyness is not an option. Attract publishers, investors and journalists. Making the most of it. It’s up to us developers to make the most of it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Instead, the Puzzle genre is more suitable for standard user acquisition, a topic where likely Supercell is less experienced than specialized companies. But the content creator audiences likely weren’t very receptive to Clash Quest , which is not as fun to watch due to the lack of PvP and has way less mastery depth.

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Sky Betting and Gaming Technology

DECEMBER 19, 2019

I recently attended the performance.now() conference in Amsterdam courtesy of Sky Betting & Gaming’s Tech Ninja Fund. Web performance has a massive influence on the quality of a users experience and as such has always been a big topic in web development. Introduction.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability. Estébanez ( RandomShaper ) has become an expert on this topic and made a number of improvements included in Godot 3.2.2 and Godot 3.3.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

We could cover a whole series of articles just on the topic of proper and productive play-testing. It’s also hard though because now that we’re going to Kickstarter on January 16th we’ll really require a critical mass of backers in order to fund those premium components.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Funding is just the beginning. Impact of data in games Hiring for cultural fit Initial focus post funding Why you need to panic! So kind of when starting out, let's say you started your company, you got that initial funding. How does Supercell become Supercell, Playtika become Playtika, or EA become EA? JK All right.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The company was originally funded by NetEase, but Snap is published by Nuverse (a subsidiary of ByteDance, of TikTok fame). The new currency partially solves the topic of sharding. Make sure to listen to the podcast below to dive even deeper into Marvel Snap.

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Game Dev Unchained

AUGUST 24, 2023

” He goes on to highlight a pertinent topic – Return To Office (RTO). The conversation broached topics from the dedication and productivity of workers to investment trends and emerging challenges in the gaming industry. Investors, once eager to fund innovative gaming projects, are becoming wary.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Early this year the Turkish mobile startup Dream Games has raised $50 million in new funding ($57.5M total funding), despite having only soft-launched its first game, Royal Match. Multi boards are a divisive topic as they can be a nightmare if you are a player that plans their moves ahead.

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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 ? Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 18, 2004

Clearly, the game could be done cheaper with hobbyists or people passionate enough about the genre to work for free or below cost, for back-end, or with a trust-fund baby on staff, but the goal in putting together this plan is to explore it as real business, and our business model is a little screwed if we count on people working for free.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Going mobile Of course, F2O is not a benevolent act from well funded games trying to give it back to the community. People have been working for more than a decade on these topics, so there are many best practices to follow. People have suffered enough with token launches and there almost seems to be a consensus around this topic.

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