PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2024

Also, the trend on the YoY market decrease persists with a 6% drop compared to Q2 2023. QoQ); Bridge Race (–4% QoQ); Magic Tiles 3 (–12% QoQ); and Build A Queen (–20% QoQ). Apparently, ABI Games Studio released their title one month earlier, in November 2023. Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2024

downloads in Q3 2023. The concept is the following: players start with a small hole (or as one, if you wish) and grow by devouring objects smaller than their current size, as well as other players’ holes. The case is about the same for YoY dynamics—the market went down by a similar percentage from its 3.4B

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

by 2023, suggesting a reassessment of risk by investors. While this is a decrease from previous years—$153 m in 2022 and $158m in 2023—the steady number of deals indicates continued VC interest in startups founded by ex-ATVI employees. The company has developed two mobile titles— Word Tiles Puzzle: Word Search and Restaurant Tycoon.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

So of course, when Clash Mini and Supercell social networks started teasing about something big coming up in December 2023, many of us thought it was the global launch. … But there are also deeply impactful changes to the gameplay , which expand the new gameplay direction that was established in the July 2023 update. It was not.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The same group showcased Gen AI Materials at SIGGRAPH in August 2023, winning the Real-Time Live show. Inspiration images are a common concept in 3D design. AI texture painting takes AI one step further into the interactive loop.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Subway Surfers was the most popular game for three consecutive years, with 218 million downloads in 2023, 304 million in 2022, and 191 million in 2021. This type of level designing involves procedural generation where reusable tiles (including power-ups, obstacles, and aesthetic features) are randomly assembled. Sit no more!

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Mechanics Games Concepts Feature 40

Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

The initial plan was to launch a Kickstarter in February of 2023, but back in early December I realized we were going to have to push that back. At different parts of the bridge there were investment tiles, so on a basic level the premise was kind of, “do I move to a relatively unsafe investment tile, or do I BUMP?”

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