Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

1 Organic Discovery Will Be Declared Deceased In 2023, the iOS and Play stores will be officially declared dead - and no funeral will be held. Yet the hard truth is that these initiatives by the platforms have done little except prolonged development cycles and created jobs inside the platforms themselves.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Ambitious multiverse and Web3 project Avalon’s first trailer dropped yesterday, as well as details of the experienced development team’s plans for the game. ” IN OTHER NEWS Unity 6 announced At Unite 2023 in Amsterdam, Unity announced the next version of its game development engine, Unity 6, set for release next year.

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

If executed correctly, introducing new mechanics in this way can be an easy win, enabling developers to test out player preferences, broaden motivational appeal, boost user acquisition, and enhance player engagement – all without drastically altering the core gameplay.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 2, 2024

In 2023, I had the pleasure of attending Playtopia Festival for the first time. This warmth is a hallmark of Free Lives, the South African indie game development studio behind Playtopia. In 2023, she was named Person of the Year by Games Industry Africa. The welcoming atmosphere was unforgettable.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When game developer and publisher Milestone released a third-person racing game based on Mattel’s Hot Wheels toy line, “Hot Wheels Unleashed,” in September 2021, it quickly gained a dedicated following. By April 2023, Milestone had sold more than two million copies , and the game registered more than eight million active players.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2024

In a church filled with diverse races, I was exposed to lots of different people even when it wasn’t allowed in South Africa.” Bowden proposed taking African game developers overseas with government funding, to which Hall enthusiastically agreed. So, buckle up as we embark on this joyous ride down memory lane with Bowden.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

Analysts have widely reported developers’ ongoing challenges with user acquisition targets as they wrestle with stricter app tracking policies, especially on Apple devices. These mechanics are unconventional for a racing game but aren’t surprising. In many respects, this change isn’t particularly surprising.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I'm excited to share that Menace got selected as a finalist for The Rookie Awards 2023, as well as a DNEG finalist. This process was fun, as you're pretty much playing a racing game with a PS4 controller on an empty map. Join the future of filmmaking, content creation, and game development! REAL-TIME 3D COURSES

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Game Errors

AUGUST 4, 2023

Since the game was released, gamers worldwide have been racing to learn as many BG3 facts as possible. How long has Baldur’s Gate 3 been in development? Baldur’s Gate 3 has been in development for six years. The fact is that many global events influenced the pace of development. Why this sudden shift?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

2023 was a challenging year for the mobile gaming market. Racing Games: In contrast, racing games have shown modest growth, especially in regions like India and the Middle East, suggesting emerging markets' potential for specific game types. Sources: Sensor Tower State of Gaming 2024 Data.ai

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Nvidia

JUNE 9, 2023

Algorithms for surface reconstruction appear in various applications, such as industrial simulation, video game development, architectural design, medical imaging, and robotics. Reconstructed geometry of a long race track Figure 4. These scenes were captured using an autonomous vehicle equipped with a lidar sensor.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. ” Why did you become a solo developer?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

By understanding these complexities, we can gain valuable insights into the dynamics shaping the contemporary gaming landscape and explore potential pathways for future growth and development. At the same time, they are, perhaps for the first time in history, expecting development budgets to decrease. Yet this did not materialize.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2023

E pic’s user-generated content (UGC) domination has required thousands of employees and 5 years of development but pays off with 40% of player game time and $350M generated from creator worlds. Mediatonic must cherry-pick UGC rounds to appear on the main menu, although the team reports working on discoverability throughout 2023.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

Dream Games, the developer of the massive Match-3 success, Royal Match , is still attempting to answer this (difficult) question. This makes it easier to balance the campaign and matchmake players for Live Events (Lava Quest, Episode/Level Race, etc). It wouldn’t be a Deconstructor of Fun article without some Sensor Tower love.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2024

In 2023, Abubakar rebranded his company from Silver Rain Games to Surgent Studios to expand Tales of Kenzera into various mediums beyond games. He explains, “Surgent Studios is all about telling stories inspired by human truth, beyond race or gender. They are all interconnected in various ways.”

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding. The immersive worlds game developers craft will get players hooked and keep them coming back for more. What is Unreal?

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

Throughout 2023 (and now 2024), Stumble Guys has become a collaborative machine, introducing players to everything from MrBeast , Barbie , Monopoly , Spongebob , Nerf , Rabbids , and many more. What can other developers learn from these battle passes? For example, what if narrative was tied to a daily login or co-op event?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

The rules of the game are not established yet, and, as a game developer, you are expected to create them. On the other hand, it leads to a quite unstable business where you might have to pivot after a year of development. However, the hard part lies in experimenting with everything except the game development itself.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Deconstructor of Fun x Google Istanbul conference is coming up on March 9th, 2023! The Real Danger of the Microsoft's Activision Deal & 2023 Predictions for Blockchain Games. In October, Playtika confirmed it had closed Best Fiends developer Seriously , with nearly all of its 120 staff affected.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Deconstructor of Fun x Google Istanbul conference is coming up on March 9th, 2023! It lowers consumer price expectations and drives the devaluation of gaming content in a cannibalistic race to the bottom. If you’re not one of the 11,000 subscribers of our newsletter, tap here! Missed a previous newsletter? Signups are live now.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

The developers were able to combine the best of the two previous versions of Castlevania in this game, creating an icon for the ages. This game didn’t sell as developers had expected, but a big reason was that the television program it was based on had stopped grabbing the audience’s attention. GT Advance Championship Racing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

billion in revenue it will generate in 2023. The result of the two issues above being fixed is that we now have an unprecedented console games release calendar in 2023. Despite the recent layoffs, the gaming industry is booming with critically acclaimed titles and sales records being broken left and right! year-on-year increase.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Being located in Istanbul just like the original developer of Zen Match , Spyke Games must have been inspired by their success story. Adding the fact that some of the co-founders worked at Peak (that developed two successful blast titles in Toy Blast & Toon Blast ), they went ahead with their own take on the Tile Match subgenre.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Along with the pre-order already live for the release in February 2023, the game is garnering a lot of traction in the media. Although that is the case, the player can indeed use brooms to traverse the huge expanse of the game and for broom races.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A tale of two halves: H1 and H2 of 2022 During the last quarter of 2021, almost every successful blockchain game had one thing in common: They were developed by crypto native teams who were well versed in the blockchain technology, but lacked experience in game development. Predictions for 2023: What comes next?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 28, 2023

In the premium game model there is no real concern if the price of an individual premium game goes to 0 on the secondary market because that market is not owned or connected to the developer in any way. Doing this without kicking off a “race to the bottom” positive feedback loop which takes asset prices close to zero is a non-trivial problem.

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