Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

As an example, a puzzle minigame might feature consumable boosters or rewarded ads to help players in the levels, while a more complex standalone minigame might introduce a completely new monetized meta layer. Very nifty way to, for example, map out LiveOps requirements and content of your next live event project.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Widely regarded as the biggest trendsetter when it comes to entertaining content, the short-form video content platform, TikTok, has become the new home for viral content. year-over-year from 2021 to 2022 (TikTok Internal Data, 2022) – makes it the perfect place to find inspiration for casual and hyper-casual mobile games.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 11, 2023

Hypercasual Q1 regional split Comparing the total downloads in Q1 2023 with those in Q4 2022, we see a decrease of 5%. However, an even more significant downtrend can be noticed when comparing Q1 2022 to Q1 2023. Thief Puzzle: to pass a level Another new hit with 27M downloads is Thief Puzzle: to pass a level.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2022 was incredibly eventful (as you can read about below) and we are looking forward to starting the new year with all of you in a few days! 2022 GAMES AWARDS: And the winner is… The Biggest News Item of 2022 Looking back, 2021 was truly booming in terms of game news. 2022 has been the opposite. Subscribe here!

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Other gaming VC-led deals followed a steady growth until peaking in 2022, after which the average check sizes declined across all categories, likely due to economic factors and increased caution in the VC landscape. 6 focusing on web3 projects, primarily content creators, with 5 in gaming and one mobile play-to-earn platform. —

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

The idea for Dead Meat came in 2022, when Keane and Ackland were discussing what the ultimate First Person Talker might look like. And so, the duo started exploring different ways to turn talking into a puzzle. But for that dialogue to be of a high quality, the game needs a wealth of hand-written content to inspire it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The misleading ad push was succeeded by the famous "Pull the pin" puzzle-style ads that put Evony and Hero Wars on the map in the past few years. The audience that was looking for a slightly different type of puzzle gameplay, the gameplay that was featured in the ads they were clicking on. Since its launch in February 2021.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

To put the Strategy genre in proportion, it generates a whole Billion more than all Puzzle games combined. Though several puzzle genres do boast significant ad revenue streams, which bridge the gap in net revenue between the genres. 2022 Predictions for 4X games We’ll see even more external IPs in the 4X genre.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Clash Quest is Supercell’s most recent attempt at disrupting the puzzle category through titles like Smash Land , Spooky Pop, and Hay Day Pop , each of them trying to achieve success from different angles. Clash Quest 101 In terms of gameplay, Clash Quest can be categorized as a blast-based midcore Puzzle game with some RPG components.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tower of Fantasy was launched in the global markets in August 2022, luring players to the game with its “Genshin with an MMO experience” headlines. Although, in these types of games, whenever there is a new content update, there is also a revenue spike, which can be shown in the case of Tower of Fantasy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

A game that really fell during 2022 losing nearly half of its revenues in the process. 5 Simulation Games (revenue -18%, downloads +16%) Roblox , which brought well over a billion Dollars in 2021, declined by 27% in 2022 while not losing downloads. Globally, time spent grew 25% from 2021 to 2022. Until next week. ?

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. Secrets are hidden, but findable parts of a game that help give games a sense that there is “more than meets the eye” and that this is a world , not just a content delivery mechanism.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

2022 was yet another declining year for Supercell. Supercell’s total revenue (Liikevaihto) declined in 2022 but is considerably up compared to 2020. I would suggest that the mobile industry’s slowdown in growth and decline in 2022 is, in part, evidence that more innovative games are needed, including from us.” Both amazing.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

to assist content creators using AI-based animation Nexon revenues jump 28% year-over-year Roblox revenue up 2% as quarterly losses hit $300 million Web3-based MMO develope r wins $10m in new capital Bandai Namco H1 sales rise above expectations Unity Q3 revenues are up but losses deepen to $239.6m Subscribe here!

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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. Mobile games market predictions in 2022 Michail Katkoff, Savage Game Studios, and Deconstructor of Fun.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Think of it as a global calendar puzzle - while some nations embrace Friday-Saturday weekends, others stick to Saturday-Sunday. Production houses now rely on these digital systems to handle their growing content collections. Production houses now rely on these digital systems to handle their growing content collections.

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Game Daily

JULY 14, 2023

They are currently puzzles (63%), arcade (52%), skill & chance (44%), shooters (42%) and action (41%). 78 % of parents make all or most of the content decisions for their kids (78%), while 17% opt for a hybrid approach that involves their kids’ input. consumer spend on video games in 2022 came in at 56.6 billion.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This blog post presents data and findings from an annual survey of professional video game developers conducted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) during October and November, 2022, alongside details about new AWS for Games solutions and customer stories. The video game industry continued its rapid transformation in 2022. Highlights.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Christmas 2022 was made very special for some as Moon Active announced the acquisition of the casual puzzle game Zen Match for as much as $150M. Designing a Tile Match level When designing puzzle levels, one of the initial goals should be to ensure that players can easily recognize patterns.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

IMHO, this makes it a different situation from the Second Dinner core team (of Marvel Snap fame), who were already used to working together at delivering top-level content and was easier for them to become operative. And newly assembled groups often take a lot of time (even years) to evolve into a high-functioning team. billion revenue and 1.1

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Developing a detailed, polished universe like this presumably took a lot of time and effort from the team, but it pays off in the end as they continuously push out more content over time for player engagement. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. They are meant more for trend analysis based on estimations, rather than an exact numbers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This can be seen in the image below, where Simulation, Merge Puzzle and MOBA titles from Big Fish and Plarium are currently in soft-launch. 2019 Prediction #2: Existing top apps will incrementally improve live ops and content, and experiment with new meta concepts, additional currencies, and deeper/more complex social structures.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. Thankfully, your faithful crew at DoF are here to try and help you make sense of it, well, at least the very specific part of it related to puzzle games. Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. It made $5.1

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Previs animator - Previs artists create and block out 3D digital content that helps visualize what a scene, set, or certain actions will look like before it’s filmed, created, or finalized. CG Spectrum's 2022 Houdini FX student showcase. What does an FX artist do?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

Not only did we finally reveal the first official gameplay trailer for Kristala , but we also took part in a super exciting rapid pitch event held by our friends at Xsolla.and snagged free tickets to the 2022 Game Developers Conference (known as GDC to all the cool kids)! Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. Concept Art.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Both Casino and Mid-core games saw a considerable drop in downloads that will likely reflect in the revenues of these categories during 2022. Noteworthy in the Puzzle genre is the Other Match-3 sub-genre that grew 90% with games Match 3D (AppLovin) and Zen Match (Good Job Games). Puzzle Games The King is Back.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So, Spyke Games tapped into their puzzle experience from Peak and summoned one of the key elements of every successful puzzle game: Obstacles! Do you lack depth in your puzzle levels? The use of the “Frog” obstacle in Tile Busters (left) and Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells (right). Just slap some obstacles!

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2024

Within UEFN, you can design, develop, and publish content directly into Fortnite using Unreal Engine’s proven tools and workflows. Mariam Dholkawala, a WCP participant, was on the team that created an immersive experience with the player in a unique art gallery that incorporates puzzle-solving and escape room mechanics.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. Robert Yang, 2022; (right) poem "Long years apart."

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