Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. Playing levels awards stars , which are used to earn coins in the Puzzle Pass. Looking at the market, there have been plenty of combinations of Puzzle Core + Invest & Express hybrid games attempted. The Twist: The Puzzle Pass.

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JUNE 24, 2024

Overall downloads have declined on both iOS and Android platforms , with Play Store downloads seeing a more significant drop. Puzzle remained strong by focusing on retaining its current user base through events and live operations. Across top social media platforms, YouTube leads in the US, earning 49% of total gaming spend.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 23, 2023

Addressing Demographics and Analytics While data on audience demographics such as age, gender, and country is not directly provided by Steam, Steam Data Suite users can gather insights based on sales, platform, and pricing data. Additionally, he suggests using platforms like Reddit and TikTok to advertise smaller games effectively.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In an ever-chaotic gaming business, Telegram seems to finally be a platform where a studio can launch with self-determination and have a real shot at a profitable game. Unlike many other messaging platforms, a good chunk of Telegram users are game-oriented. In fact, a reported 20% of Telegram users engage with games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. Empires and Puzzles regularly takes the top spot in Puzzle RPG category in the West (when Dokkan is having a post event hangover).

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

So I want to release this on the WeChat minigame platform as well. Advertising platform Currently, we are using Admob and Facebook ads, but I know that these two services are not available in China. Is there any advertising platform service provider you can recommend for the Chinese release version?

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

With privacy becoming more important to mobile players and the prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) in app advertising inventories, the quality of your creatives has never been more important to the success of your games. In most app advertising inventories, you do not have many levers to pull.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

But given the degree to which speculation about IDFA has dominated discussions about mobile games marketing since June, before jumping into the substantive predictions for the year, it makes sense to commence the piece with a set of machine-gun hypotheses around the direct impacts on mobile games advertisers of IDFA deprecation. Not really.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 19, 2021

In “ Apple IDFA Change has Triggered 15-20% Revenue drops in iOS advertisers ”, Gamesbeat’s Dean Takahashi interviewed Brian Bowman, founder of marketing services firm Consumer Acquisition, on his heavily publicized anti-Apple stance. How in-game ATT acceptance is affected by the advertising app’s ATT acceptance rate by Business of Apps.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Our opinion on why is in line with Ilkka’s words above The lack of successful new game launches by Supercell stems mainly from the fact that all their games after Brawl Stars only offered incremental innovation over products that already existed in mobile , instead of a more disruptive proposal on the platform. Quite the contrary.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Familiarity with Nintendo Platforms Nintendo testing can be challenging. Therefore, you must be familiar with different Nintendo gaming platforms, like upcoming consoles and Nintendo Switch, to be successful. Also, understand the unique controls and features of the Nintendo platforms to ensure flawless Nintendo testing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 26, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. Between executive stints at Atari, EA, Zynga, Kabam and Oculus, he has a long and impressive CV that runs the gamut of platforms, genres and business models. Ask him about a free, $10,000 UA test for your game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 23, 2020

Market evolution in the mobile gaming market are the foundational uber-cycles precipitated by innovations and platform changes that create whole new product categories -- these developments are so large and mass-market that they create opportunities that attract mainstream investors to the gaming category.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

This post is written by Nebojsa “Nebo” Radovic , who’s an experienced mobile marketing professional who currently heading the user acquisition for N3TWORK’s Scale Platform. Becoming the first mover is not something you can replicate on the existing platforms in 2020. That’s how confident they (and we) are in their platform.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

To a large extent, ironSource seems to have taken a page out of AppLovin’s playbook by entering Hypercasual publishing after fueling the genre for years as an incredibly robust mediation and monetization platform. This is in line with the current rise in popularity of games with the equally satisfying Merge mechanic in the puzzle genre.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the same time, cross-platform open-world RPG Genshin Impact continues to break new ground, crossing its $3 Billion in IAP Spend in Q2 2022. Overall, in the key Western markets, MMORPGs, Roguelikes, Merge and Puzzle genres largely bucked the recession in terms of revenue. Until next week. ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 18, 2023

By acquiring Rovio, they get access to all the resources needed to take their brands to new platforms and wider audiences. #2 Rovio’s decline is accelerated due to their acquisition of Ruby Games, whose hypercasual portfolio is becoming rapidly obsolete due to the privacy change effects on in-app advertising.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 24, 2023

You can watch or listen to the full conversation on your preferred podcast platform below! It’s a breath of fresh air to endless calendar puzzles where you’re trying to set up a meeting with people. These same call-me-anytime rules apply to everyone in the company. And in many ways, that is by design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Tune in to the podcast below through your platform of choice: What Precisely Is Product Marketing? In the realm of product marketing, timing is crucial, and every decision is a piece of the puzzle. Together, they navigate the world of product marketing and its central role in the gaming industry.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

You need to be able to do very targeted advertising, which is severely impacted by ATT. Re-engagement advertising has also been decimated by ATT. I’ve said this number before and people push back on it, but there is about 100 thousand social casino payers, so everybody is chasing them.” Issue #1 The audience is very small.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

A tip to boost your cross-promotion When showing a creative for cross-promotion we use the game mechanics of the game we're advertising, but the art of the game we are publishing. Best Fiends is a puzzle game. Solitaire Grand Harvest is a solitare game. In other words, everything you need for game growth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

2022 predictions: Casual games will become more audience-led because of ATT Hypercasual will continue to see more hybrid IAP/ad monetisation and will become even more ‘Android first’ Midcore games will go increasingly cross-platform (particularly on PC). Each different game audience needs a different economy.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This approach fits better with the predominantly female target audience that is very familiar with saga-based puzzle games. Overall, we can expect Casino Games to be somewhat of an incubator for a puzzle or skill-based mini-games. Access all previous predictions here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

On looking deeper, it was found that this was driven by two things - 30-35% of the growth was driven by increased IAP integration in various hypercasual mini-genres, most notably Puzzle. Platformers - No Change to Status Quo… Yet Platformers is a classic genre that continues to rake in stable, hefty download numbers year after year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

In comparison, Cookie Run: Kingdom is more similar to My Little Pony in terms of art style than the earlier Cookie Run platformer games, demonstrating Devsister evolved their art style to better fit the current preference of the global market. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom. Evolution of Cookie Run.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Software used by professional 3D animators: Maya 3D Studio Max After Effects MotionBuilder Mudbox Premier Cinema 4D LightWave Real-time engine (such as Unreal or Unity) 3D animation jobs in the industry 3D animators can work on live-action projects (VFX), fully animated projects, virtual production, and video games (all platforms).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

The fact that Battle Passes have been successful on audiences so alien to each other like MOBAs and Match-3 Puzzle fans shows how versatile its design can be. The obvious intention is to try to move this high-value purchase to third-party payment systems, therefore avoiding the store platform fees.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. The numbers above show net revenues (platform cut taken away) in the Western markets (China, Japan and Korea excluded). In casual games overall, puzzle games account for just over 50% of all revenue for 2020. It made $5.1

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. Casual Games in 2022 In our taxonomy, built together with Sensor Tower, the casual games category is divided into seven genres: Puzzle, Hypercasual, Arcade, Tabletop, Simulation, Lifestyle, and Geolocation. Puzzle Games The King is Back.

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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. the second piece of the puzzle. PewDiePie’s paid influencer video — 6m+ views!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

>> see our gaming market predictions As we enter 2025, the digital advertising and mobile gaming industries are transforming remarkably. Casino, Puzzle (Casual), and Strategy games are flourishing, with blockbuster titles like Monopoly Go and Royal Match driving incredible success. Poolday.ai

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