Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

This post was originally published on [ 22-06-2021 ] and has been updated on [ 30-09-2024 ] to reflect new information and insights. Smartphones are as much a tool for entertainment as they are for communication, and mobile games rule the roost for keeping users entertained.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A program that aims to improve representation and increase visibility for underrepresented creators in the mobile gaming industry. Game developers worldwide have until February 21, 2024 to submit completed or beta versions of Android mobile games that have been released into the mobile market or have an upcoming expected release date in 2024.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 29, 2024

Written by Michail Katkoff , founder of Deconstructor of Fun and a games industry veteran with 15 years of experience in building, operating, and scaling games and game companies. An unfairness that we in the mobile game industry have experienced a tightly controlled distribution landscape for our entire industry's lifetime.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, a seismic shift that was certainly felt at the 2024 Game Developer Conference (GDC) held last week in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Check it out , and follow the recap below for a full rundown of AWS for Games activities at GDC 2024.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. Concept Art: Concept art shows how the characters, objects, buildings, and areas will look. Each block may depict a cliff or a building, for instance. Every release brings with it wide-ranging improvements.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 26, 2024

year-over-year to $186 billion in 2024. Mobile gaming continues to dominate this category, accounting for $109.6 Console hardware sales are projected to decline sharply by 31% in 2024 and another -11% in 2025E, due to the end of the current console generation cycle. billion in consumer spending in 2025E , up 4.6% billion (3.6%

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

The mobile market continues to evolve rapidly, driven by shifting user behaviors, technological advancements, and emerging economic trends. This blog post delves into those insights to provide a comprehensive overview of the mobile landscape. Sources: Sensor Tower State of Gaming 2024 Data.ai

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2024

The AppMagic Hypercasual games recap for the second quarter of 2024 unveils some interesting information about this specific part of the mobile games market. General Market Trends Compared to Q1 2024, the market has shifted down by 11%, amassing 3.38B installs. (a Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

2023 turned out to be no less challenging for the mobile market than the year before. With the success rate of the new games released drastically low, one can’t help but ask two questions: When releasing a game in 2024, which genre should I choose to make the most of it? This article is written by Alexandra Doroshenko from AppMagic.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 12, 2024

Top WordPress Trends - The Five Pillars to a Strong Online Presence Whether you want to build a blogging site, business website, or a highly complex eCommerce website, WordPress is the go-to option to fulfill all your needs. The top WordPress trends that hold enormous potential in 2024, as seen through our critical lens, are listed below.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 19, 2024

By outsourcing game-testing activities to reputable testers, companies can achieve better quality games while ensuring game developers focus more on what they do best – building games. Looking ahead to 2024, consider iXie for game testing. This approach helps the in-house teams to focus more on developing games.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2024

Technology Trends in XR - 2024 Extended Reality is breaking new ground and this blog talks about extended reality technology trends like the Metaverse, Digital Twin Technology and Holoportation. Let's check out technology trends in XR - 2024. XR and Holoportation Holoportation is a 3D capture technology that supports virtual mobility.

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Cocos

APRIL 5, 2024

Hello, When attempting to run the game on a mobile device after building it, the following error occurs consistently: 14:34:38 [DEBUG]: D/ JS: [ERROR]: Error 3817, please visit [link] for details.

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Cocos

APRIL 4, 2024

Hello, When attempting to run the game on a mobile device after building it, the following error occurs consistently: 14:34:38 [DEBUG]: D/ JS: [ERROR]: Error 3817, please visit [link] for details.

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Cocos

APRIL 4, 2024

Hello, When attempting to run the game on a mobile device after building it, the following error occurs consistently: 14:34:38 [DEBUG]: D/ JS: [ERROR]: Error 3817, please visit [link] for details.

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Cocos

APRIL 4, 2024

Hello, When attempting to run the game on a mobile device after building it, the following error occurs consistently: 14:34:38 [DEBUG]: D/ JS: [ERROR]: Error 3817, please visit [link] for details.

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Cocos

APRIL 3, 2024

Hello, When attempting to run the game on a mobile device after building it, the following error occurs consistently: 14:34:38 [DEBUG]: D/ JS: [ERROR]: Error 3817, please visit [link] for details.

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Cocos

APRIL 3, 2024

Hello, When attempting to run the game on a mobile device after building it, the following error occurs consistently: 14:34:38 [DEBUG]: D/ JS: [ERROR]: Error 3817, please visit [link] for details.

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Cocos

APRIL 3, 2024

Hello, When attempting to run the game on a mobile device after building it, the following error occurs consistently: 14:34:38 [DEBUG]: D/ JS: [ERROR]: Error 3817, please visit [link] for details.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If you’re looking for ways to improve player retention for your mobile game, hosting a collaboration event with a well-known franchise as part of your LiveOps might be the answer you’re looking for. To figure out what makes a brand collaboration successful, let’s look at some recent examples of in-game collaboration events in mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In the second edition of The Alumni Effect, we’re focusing on another industry powerhouse: Activision Blizzard, which also includes the mobile gaming giant King. The average check size for Early-stage VC-backed gaming studios has fluctuated notably between 2020 and 2024. In 2024 YTD, ten deals totaled $49m in disclosed funding.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

Harmony Games, a mobile game studio founded in 2023, considered two possible paths for solving the backend problem. The first was building its backend from scratch, which the studio quickly determined would take too long. Their first game, Domino Adventures, is set for global release in 2025, with a beta launch targeted for Q3 2024.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

While some deals are still happening, most companies have full slates of games planned through 2024, that’s why they are hitting the brakes on new investments. Find the fun factor in your game and build a demo around that Developers should do their homework before approaching publishers and investors. Absolutely chicken! “In

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Logic Simplified

JULY 2, 2024

A good UI UX design focuses on creating a website that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing while being optimized for mobile devices. Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform that has been used to create more than 124,071 live websites, as of May 2024. How Magento Can Improve Customer Journey Optimization?

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AWS Games

JULY 16, 2024

Azur Games , a mobile game publisher and developer, recently achieved over 8 billion game installs across their portfolio of hypercasual games. A hypercasual game is a simple, easy-to-play mobile game with low barriers to entry. Screenshot of Kingdom Clash, published by CASUAL AZUR GAMES.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 23, 2024

At the same time we tried to give our unique twist to the gameplay with our mask-system and deep RPG features, giving a lot of new possibilities to the players to try different builds and approaches. Jyamma games, founded in Milan in 2019, initially focused on mobile games like Hi-Ball Rush and Cowzuuka.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 19, 2024

At the same time we tried to give our unique twist to the gameplay with our mask-system and deep RPG features, giving a lot of new possibilities to the players to try different builds and approaches. Jyamma games, founded in Milan in 2019, initially focused on mobile games like Hi-Ball Rush and Cowzuuka.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Let’s find out how KAYAC approaches development of Hypercasual games in 2024; what their expectations from the market are; which best practices for game development they can point out; and what tips for adapting games for the Western region they have to offer. As such, we intend to pursue both moving forward!”

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 26, 2024

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. Recently, I had the privilege of discussing the latest market insights with Devan Brennan, Senior Consultant at Newzoo, dissecting their August 2024 market forecasts. in growth for the year 2024.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. Now we’re in 2024 -- and since 2020, we haven’t seen any new IP get a foothold into this market. The player base dropped from 80 million monthly active users in 2021 to 50 million by mid-2024.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2024

This perspective is vital, especially as the industry grapples with the phenomenon of 'rightsizing,' which we recently discussed in our post on The Three Game Industry Trends to Watch in 2024. Intensive Relationship Building : Building relationships with top-tier candidates often takes years.

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AWS Games

APRIL 4, 2023

Nuverse – publisher of MARVEL SNAP, shared a behind-the-scenes look at how it partnered with Second Dinner and Amazon Web Services to bring together marketing, operational, and technical capabilities to launch and scale the Mobile Game of the Year to millions of players across the globe. Read the Small Impact Games case study. Learn more.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Written by Michail Katkoff , founder of Deconstructor of Fun and a games industry veteran with 15 years of experience in building, operating, and scaling games and game companies. It’s well-known that our analysis of Call of Duty Mobile was printed on the wall of the studio to motivate the team to beat our early predictions.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I left gamedev entirely for five years, because I was burned out from working on yet another F2P mobile casino game or whatever soulless product would feed my family.” I usually start with a location or concept from which I build a ‘mind map’. Repunk will launch on Steam in early 2024 and is fully compatible with Steam Deck.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Mobile games market predictions in 2022 Michail Katkoff, Savage Game Studios, and Deconstructor of Fun. Understanding players and marketability have also become more important, leading to larger companies increasingly building content fortresses – in which they acquire a user and move them between games in their portfolio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 12, 2020

More recently, as Supercell’s revenue and profitability have declined over the past few years, more questions have been raised about Supercell’s approach and even their value as a mobile games company. Do either of these companies have the potential to be the most valuable mobile gaming company in the world?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2024

If you've been curious about how world-leading game publishers are operating in 2024, you're in for a treat. Hyper-casual games, known for their simplicity and mass appeal, experienced explosive growth in the mobile gaming market. Today, we delve into the unique player in the French tech scene: Voodoo. Make sure to reach out !

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