Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

Something that recent events have revealed it’s still an unresolved topic. I believe that several of the economic flaws that harmed sustainability (among them: PvE focus, inflationary economy, and high and market-driven entry price…) were the very thing fostering the growth of the Web3 games that stood out.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

The difference in revenue was explained by an increase in investments (M&A), though no specification was given on what the company invested in and how much. Interestingly, an increase in installs doesn’t affect Hay Day revenue, which talks about the maturity of the game. This has increased the interest in PC and Console platforms.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

In this article, we’ll provide you with the most comprehensive information on the Unity vs Unreal engine topic. Pricing Unreal Engine itself is free, but after your game is launched, UE is entitled to a 5% royalty fee on all game sales. Community Unity vs. Unreal Engine communities is another topic for hot discussions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Sky Mavis was valued at $3B; keep in mind that Sky Mavis owns 21% of the fully diluted AXS token supply, which once fully unlocked will be worth over $7 billion based on prices at the time of this writing. According to Sky Mavis’ last update on the topic, DAUs are slightly north of 2M. Source: CoinGecko.

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AWS Games

MAY 25, 2023

You can scale vertically by increasing the size of your instances. Amazon DocumentDB data is stored in an SSD-backed virtual volume (cluster volume) that automatically grows as the amount of data in the database increases. Database storage: The amount of data stored in your cluster’s storage volume (pricing per GB/month).

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This approach decreases the costs by allowing hardcore players to acquire those contents at a fixed price and use resources that they might have previously earned through gameplay. My intuition is that the change has not increased the stickiness for existing or returning players too much.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The conversation covers a gamut of topics, ranging from macroeconomics and behavioral economics to generative AI, Unity's strategic shifts, the dynamics of the console market, and much more. For him, AI's value lies in scaling and increasing the capabilities of smaller teams to achieve remarkable results.

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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 volatility of the stock market provides live excitement, watching the price charge swing back and forth. Subscribe here! Even non-game markets are increasingly “fun”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

In the next few chapters, we’ll visit these topics one by one. Build phase Next, in order to drive the payment conversion, the stats requirements increase quickly in both battle stats and simulations, which means it gets harder to obtain resources. Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

NFT pricing and playtime grinding for rare cards has also yet to be fixed. “There’s a lot of negativity around those kinds of topics, and a lot of emotion around words like NFT and Blockchain and Web3.” .” At first glance, the tower defense genre doesn’t seem an obvious choice for Web3 development.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

This big injection of new cards together with new means of monetizing them seems an attempt to increase RPD. A predictable amount increases by one per turn, removing any randomness from the mana curve of the match. That increases the Collection Level, unlocking more powerful cards. The mana system is the same as Hearthstone.

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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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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). Euros (normal price of 130 cash in store is 5.49

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

The game achieves this by gradually increasing upgrade costs (and can get away with it since most upgrades feel meaningful) and by releasing new town halls, unlocking new levels of buildings and units (plus new ones). to date lured many top publishers to try to break into the Tactical Battler sub-genre created from scratch by Supercell (e.g.,

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

In this article, we are going to explore this topic: Does Lost Ark help MMORPG in the western market enter a new age？ Gameplay: A satisfactory and standard production As a title made within the classical Korean MMORPG framework, the core UX is similar to that of other Korean MMORPG, including character design, storyline, career system, raids, etc.

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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 ? to $184.4B

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Well-designed levels ending in ‘almost win’ increase the value of the out-of-moves purchase. Despite numerous red ocean/blue ocean presentations, the more revenue puzzle makes, the more developers seem to want to make puzzle games, increasing the competition for playing time and, in the case of switchers. A small price to pay.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It is like criticizing Roblox by saying “The stock prices are down, so the game has less value now.” It is true that selling 10,000 high priced NFTs in 15 seconds was one of the most important reasons for a lot of teams to start developing a blockchain game. Of course, it’s hard to predict the topic or theme of those local optimals.

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