PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Some had worked on AAA games I’d played, released indie games, or previously ran companies in games. One that could run, jump, swing, climb, fly, flip and fight in a fluid way. Another really important one for me is avoiding clickbait game dev content and news. One that could do anything, if you were able to pull it off.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

During the lockdown years companies grew in headcount to supply content against the massive surge of demand. Most AAA simply cannot afford the team sizes of today. The bull case : AI will supercharge indie developers allowing them to challenge large AAA by removing production constraints.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

For example, entering Fighting games is nearly suicidal effort. Fighting games install trends are spiky as is the revenue rate. While games like Plarium’s RAID Shadow Legends boast a lineup of AAA quality 3D champions, you can get away with less. Straightforward content production. Same Studio. More depth.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Created by Epic Games in 1988, Unreal has won worldwide recognition for high-end graphics and photorealistic quality and has taken the mantle as the AAA game engine. Unreal, on the other hand, is considered to be the main player in the AAA industry.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

Eric Seufert explains the concept of content fortresses here. In terms of the share between ad revenue and IAPs, he states that Homa’s less-well performing hybridcasual titles generate 15% of their revenue from IAPs, while its top performers like Fight For America can bring in as much as 40%. But is this really a scalable future?

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. They removed all of the F2P monetization, polished some of the features, and released a new batch of content for season 4. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Apex Legends Mobile by EA.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

AAA games are first and foremost products and their “smooth functionality” is prized above all else. Here’s a handful of good examples: Final Fantasy VII : you’re part of a terrorist organization that is doing a bombing mission to try and fight back against an evil empire.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

A true masterpiece of an ad rivaling launch trailers from AAA games. Unlike with Sniper games, you could move and you were actually fighting other players. Lack of power progression means that the games monetize mainly through cosmetics and thus rely on a murderous content treadmill of visual exciting seasons.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 30, 2023

Which makes sense, because the AAA game scene right now is soooo tedious. Yes, there is a lot of repeating content, and not all of it is interesting. Basically, the core storyline has a base, not-too-tough difficulty level, and then there is a lot of optional content that's much harder. Elden Ring. Baldur's Gate 3. But whatever.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. The studio then switched to developing content for mobile and created a pair of exclusive titles for China’s WeChat social platform in 2013.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

But when you think about the AAA catalogs offered by Xbox Game Pass and Playstation Now, this just seems like a nearly impossible battle to take on for a streaming media company with little game development experience, no matter how flush with cash they are. Plus they have a library of world-class content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

3rd party IPs account for about 20% of the Top 300 Grossing games in the USA (not counting event content). This is almost impossible to make game about unless it was a AAA console action game in the vein of Uncharted. As separate worlds, Disney’s characters are about so much more than just winning the fight.

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