AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Electronic Arts (EA) engages players around the globe in immersive games across PC, console, and mobile. The algorithm only compared files with the same name as the updated version, missing cases where data had moved between files. This resulted in inflated patch sizes, as any new or changed data had to be downloaded.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 22, 2023

Technological advancements, especially in mobile and 5G technology, along with the emergence of cloud gaming services, are playing a pivotal role in enhancing the overall player experience. Console gaming has the highest players-to-payers conversion, mobile gaming has the lowest.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As reported by IGN , the entertainment union known as the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) collected data from hundreds of AAA, mobile, and indie developers between March and mid-August 2023. 57% of those surveyed said they most recently worked on an AAA game.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Learn about the technology behind the in-game ThorAI (powered by Amazon Bedrock), and get a dive deep into fully voiced, interactive in-game NPCs in the companion mobile game Missing. Capturing the magical realm of data generated by Baldur’s Gate 3 : Baldur’s Gate 3 is built on an intricate storyline heavily affected by player choices.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 25, 2023

A generation of aspiring analysts and experts now have some actual data and verbatim from high-ranking execs to build their models and assessments. My perhaps naive expectation is that Microsoft will have more leverage and a friendlier coopetition with the mobile giants to pull some much-needed oxygen into these ecosystems. Delicious.

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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. With a beta launch of its first game “Domino Adventures” (a casual mobile game in the connect tiles space, with an RPG twist) just months away, Harmony also needed a solution that could be implemented quickly.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. All in all, Ilkka’s yearly blog is an inspirational and quite sincere vision of the top brass of a major mobile games company.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Keep reading this blog to understand how mobile game development costs differ from AAA games. Will it be a 2D puzzle or an AAA game like Grand Theft Auto V? It may include– mobile devices like Android and iOS or other systems like PS and Xbox. Depending on these, you can make a budget-friendly game or the next GTA.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

Economies of Scale Unlike Amazon which owns massive infrastructure, technology, and purchase and store search data, economies of scale for game companies don’t provide as much of a defensive moat to their businesses. In the mobile free to play area, additional capital also means the ability to fund long payback games at scale (e.g.,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Components provide data and the means to interact with the whole world. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

AWS Compute Optimizer (New) – the new partner metrics feature allows developers to combine data from AWS as well as commonly used partners such as Datadog. This data provides suggestions for right-sizing game server instances on EC2. Learn more. Learn more. This allows game developers to quickly experiment with serverless backends.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 26, 2024

This evolving landscape presents opportunities for agile developers to thrive, even as AAA studios grapple with extended development cycles and rising costs. Mobile Opening Up: mobile gaming is set to grow by 3%, driven by improving economic conditions, platforms opening up, and increasing the success of existing big hits.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Secondly, look up profiles on independent data-driven websites. Specialties: – Concept Art, 3D Art, 3D Art, Illustration, Promo Art, 3D Animation, 2D Animation, Mobile Games, Video Games, UI, and Social Networks. AAA Game Art Studio. One such site is clutch. 10 Best Art Outsourcing Companies You Can Count on.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile. Subscribe here!

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

Source: Newzoo While many data and research companies are providing graphs showing modest growth, further analysis proves otherwise. 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

MARCH 11, 2024

Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. We just never thought that the impact would be so quickly visible in the data. For the past years, large AAA publishers have been shifting their strategy to produce Games-as-a-Service (GaaS). The inflation in EU and US is above 3% today.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Key components of a Battle Pass Pricing When it comes to pricing, most mobile Battle Passes range from $5 to $15 in the basic tier, which is fairly cheap but not the regular ultra-low conversion offer price. According to Game Refinery , Call of Duty Mobile is testing a similar feature. Length How long are Battle Passes on mobile?Short

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

relied on data to figure out what they wanted this game to be. Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. But not only is it the first to make it to mobile, it’s also the first one to be free to play. Summoners War: Chronicles is yet another MMORPG to make it to mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. Several of the industry’s top IPs have received high-fidelity ports that have been successful in bringing core franchise players to the mobile format. It was only a matter of time before Call of Duty would find its feet on mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 8, 2024

The unreliability of pre-registration numbers, the overestimation of brand equity, and the waning influence of first-party featuring are soon becoming recurring themes in mobile gaming; Squad Busters' launch throws these challenges into the spotlight. Prestige chasing is a troubling aim for mobile marketers, whose primary goal is growth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. In this analysis, data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all data is gathered from the one and only App Annie and analysed by the author(s). This makes RPGs the third largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.4Bn) and Puzzle ($4.5Bn) games. While games like Plarium’s RAID Shadow Legends boast a lineup of AAA quality 3D champions, you can get away with less.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

Beyond study and instrumentation, there is instinct.” - Annorax* Creating a new F2P mobile game is riskier than it’s ever been. The majority of F2P mobile publishers are prioritizing the improvement of live operations processes for existing products over the creation of new products to generate more reliable revenue and to control costs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. So, setting their sites on a subscription-based offering on mobile does sound like a more approachable business that Netflix would consider. These games could be a console, pc, or mobile. Why pay $17.99?

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