Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

There’s lots of blog articles about building a Twitter following, but I think they’re largely half-baked. I want to see you build your account organically into the thousands. Building a Twitter following with a lot of real, engaged people is a slow process. You have to very slowly build your reputation.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 13, 2017

The engine building, the upgrading, the variable game construction, and even the insert are all fantastic! In this breakdown, we’ll delve deep into the enigmatic balance of leaders running away and losers catching up. Players simultaneously build resource generators and victory points, the latter directly leading to a win.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 13, 2025

The Evolution of Production Cost Categories The origin of the "above-the-line" and "below-the-line" terminology has a fascinating connection to mid-20th-century advertising practices. Understanding movie production budgets is key to navigating this balance and effectively allocating resources.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

By carefully checking if a game meets legal and platform requirements, it ensures that the game can be released, helps build player trust, and reduces risks. Advertising and Marketing Honest advertising is key to following the rules. Balancing Creativity with Compliance Compliance shouldn’t hold back creativity.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

Mobile Marketing Trends Mobile marketing has become increasingly sophisticated, with a growing emphasis on building lasting user relationships and leveraging user-generated content. YouTube emerges as a key advertising channel for Mid-core and Core games , though it falls short in reaching Casual gamers.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It continues from the initial player experience, building across game progression systems and the value exchange of in-app purchases, and throughout the user lifecycle.” Advertising remains the most successful discovery method for most players, with nearly half saying they rely on ads to choose their next game.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Each type has its distinct advantages that enable you to strike a balance between visibility as well as user experience. The most common combinations include in-app purchases and advertisements, subscriptions with in-app purchases and combinations of all three.

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

Create intuitive, fun, and rewarding mechanics that are balanced and challenging enough to keep players engaged. By improving their gaming experience, you can retain players and build a positive reputation. This may involve social media advertising, influencer partnerships, or attending gaming conferences.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

Similar to viewing a base and choosing where to attack in mid-core Build & Battle games, one can choose which opponent structure to attack. It should be mentioned that unlike mid-core Build & Battle games, the attack experience in CM is a simple and quick one action affair.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. The Matchers Gonna Match E&P’s core gameplay is carefully designed and balanced. I do see why it’s difficult to scale and balance the matching gameplay with all kinds of level modifiers being present.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 24, 2023

The demand for work-life balance and job security is less pronounced as the cultural norm is to work hard not only for 8 but sometimes 10 or 12 hours a day. In a remote setup, the ability to build social capital is limited due to a lack of face time. In current and former CIS countries the work culture is different compared to Europe.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

What’s more, it delivers ongoing value to players and builds a robust community. This strategy also has a hidden advantage for advertisers in obtaining new users by displaying their ads on games. Therefore, strike a balance between the quality and number of ads to get the most revenue while maintaining a smooth gaming experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

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. This has led to a resurgence in the value of IP in the market, as it is now harder to get new users.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

But it takes a more balanced view of the metaverse than we often see in the mainstream media, viewing it not so much as a single transformative technology, but as an indicator of rapidly changing consumer behavior. “What are your immersive brand assets that you can build out for those environments?”

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

This trend presents a unique challenge for developers, as it requires them to balance gameplay mechanics and technical capabilities to ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for all players. As these games are usually free-to-play, the only way to generate revenue is through in-app purchases and advertising.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. The game won over millions of gamers with the adorable Cookie characters and a perfect mashup of RPG and Build & Harvest mechanics. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom. Create an account 2. Two key words - cuteness and mashup.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This is the main reason why mobile game businesses are extremely dependent on User Acquisition (UA), and mastering UA is crucial in building a highly scaled mobile app business. The key to success is balancing IPM and LTV, and making sure that the gains on the IPM side are higher than the losses on the LTV side of the equation.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

How to become a 3D modeler CG Spectrum's 3D modeling career track and Bachelor of Animation and VFX (3D modeling) will help you build solid 3D modeling and sculpting skills. You’ll learn industry-quality asset creation, building 3D props, creatures, and environments using Maya, ZBrush, and Substance Painter, guided by industry experts.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

Hay Day Pop however shows that Supercell has learned their lessons and clearly understands how to build on the genre. It has a solid core game design, and a meta design that builds upon the successes we’ve seen in the market. Both models start with an empty space and the player completes levels to afford to build it up.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Passes can generate different player experiences, follow a different balance, and emphasize different components depending on the genre and audience. It’s also important to understand that Passes are not a straightforward feature to balance that can be applied to any game without risks.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

He started his career in advertising, but the world of video games always held his real interest. Still, Nowell strives to maintain a healthy work-life balance. An ambitious game that combines medieval city building and kingdom defense with ARPG combat and monster hunting. I dont want to work on my game 7 days a week.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This means that the player has to carefully build up big combinations on the board, at the right time, to max out the damage output. And because of that, it was never able to build a big enough LTV to face the insanely high CPIs of the puzzle or puzzle RPG genres. In theory, an IP could help lower a bit the CPIs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

East Side Games doubled down on Trailer Park Boys , showing that a periodically expanding IP based narrative built on well balanced systems can perfectly sustain idle games in the long run. Result: CORRECT - Between the recent IAP revenue trends, 5 mini-genres emerging and Archero entering the scene, we got this one right too.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

As we discussed in the previous few articles, CPM is a function of CPI (LTV) and IPM (Creative Performance), and the higher the CPI and IPM, the more competitive the advertiser is. The other and, in my opinion, a better way is to build products that users you can reach want. In other words, the best product market fit.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Many of us remember 2007 when Mark Zuckerberg said 'build your business on our app platform and you can keep the profits’. Likelihood of the prediction: 62% #3 Paid UA Becomes a Break-Even Game Advertising is a commodity and in a race to the bottom. They focus on empowerment, clarity, efficiency, and work-life balance.

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Game Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

This extra layer of strategy balances the need to kill off stragglers, focus on impeding more skilled opponents, or exact revenge against irritating individuals. Based on the then-nascent free-to-play (ftp) model, and usually monetized through advertising, the phenomenon even featured in the Wall Street Journal.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

For example, a balance patch to Skyweavers that changes the power (and thus price) of different cards will shake up the market considerably. Major balance patches should be a planned event, similar to the Federal Reserve’s monthly meetings. These “set-it-and-forget-it” markets like housing don’t attract day traders or hot news cycles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 27, 2019

Part of Fibonad Group (the largest Spanish digital advertising group offering Branding, Performance and Publishing services), Lab Cave has achieved more than 200 million organic downloads without running any paid acquisitions campaign. A well balanced revenue market share split across the East and West. Archero’s complete game loop.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. On the other hand, this low entry barrier is what drove the growth of the genre as publishers advertise within each other's games to scale their titles. In theory, the IDFV allows a publisher to build user profiles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Warcraft Rumble features an innovative progression meta, allowing players to build armies with leaders and troops and allows for almost unlimited gameplay which is interesting compared to other games in the genre such as Marvel Strike Force and Galaxy of Heroes etc. The fact that the meta system feels different is refreshing and exciting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Warcraft Rumble features an innovative progression meta, allowing players to build armies with leaders and troops and allows for almost unlimited gameplay which is interesting compared to other games in the genre such as Marvel Strike Force and Galaxy of Heroes etc. The fact that the meta system feels different is refreshing and exciting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow and monetize their games. Unrelated to the pandemic, Apple proposed a change to IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers), which was also a hot topic across mobile gaming. New titles and titles grown by misleading advertising are the ones that will be taking a hit.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Moreover, in the case of sex clubs, the patron himself simultaneously becomes the advertised adventure." Can we build a sex dungeon that would do Jane Jacobs proud? For balance purposes, I limit the number of voyeurs in the maze, otherwise it can enter a deadlock where there's only voyeurs but no one for them to watch.

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