Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

What we especially love is Rovio decided to make this an affordable premium game, rather than F2P. So ads won’t ever spoil what is arguably a perfect mobile game. That, slapped on with some vibrant colours, cute art style, and upbeat music, made playing this game a treat. Which is a difficult balance to strike.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

launched in April 2023 and quickly grew to become the world’s #1 casual mobile game, surpassing $1B in revenue within six months. Join the game’s architects for a conversation on the architectural and design considerations underpinning the game, the AWS services used to help scale it, and lessons learned along the way.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With the technology and tools we’re developing alongside our partners, we want to foster a community for our namesake game that is able to create their own content and benefit from it, and immerse themselves in content that others have made and shared.” ” Core to Avalon will be player-created content.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Visitors to the Play and Learn Lounge could also play video games streamed from Amazon Luna while learning about the studios and services involved in the development process. the #1 casual game launch of 2023 : Scopely’s Monopoly Go! Explore real-world use cases for a variety of generative AI services and solutions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Follow Nebo on everything mobile growth > @eniac W hen AppTrackingTransparency was introduced, many predicted the doom and gloom situation and the death of mobile gaming. It's no secret that Match 3 is the most competitive mobile gaming genre. Our products need to be reinvented to fit the new reality.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

In a recent podcast featuring Lexi Sydow , Director of Corporate Marketing and Insights at Sensor Tower, several key insights were shared about the current state and future of mobile gaming, mobile marketing, and the dynamic between apps and games. Sources: Sensor Tower State of Gaming 2024 Data.ai

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Guest post by Alexander Devyaterikov , Producer at Belka Games In today's gaming world, it's not enough to just have a good game. We need to release regular updates: more content, more events, faster, and higher quality. Reusing content The next thing on our list is reusing and looping content.

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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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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yet, those professionals in mobile game development services know how to tackle these challenges. But the chaos and the desire to create visually stunning and immersive games fuels their determination. Regular software updates, including game-balancing patches and new downloadable content (DLC), keep the game fresh and engaging.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

Hyper-casual games are simple, easy-to-play games that have become increasingly popular in recent years. With the rise of smartphones and mobile gaming, hyper-casual games have exploded in popularity due to their accessibility and addictiveness.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Written by Jesper Gustavsson , Director of Product at SYBO Games and a games industry veteran with 10 years of experience in building and operating mobile games as a product manager. In 2012, Microfun transitioned into the mobile gaming industry with the release of “Super Model” (an RPG fashion game).

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It was through a class in college that I started and realized that it wasn’t so impossible to start developing your own games.” Between one job and another I always tried to include some type of content related to games. It was very different from the short games for exhibitions that I had previously developed.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2024

Changes in the Gaming Industry Over the Last 10 Years For a long time, the gaming industry was a close-knit community where everyone knew everyone, especially within specific regions. In recent years, the gaming industry has seen a significant influx of talent moving both into and out of the sector.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Guest post by Kenneth Landen , Director of Product at Hit Factor Executive Summary In the ever-evolving landscape of mobile gaming, Supercell's Brawl Stars has undergone a remarkable resurgence, transforming challenges into triumphs. The Brawl pass is also a key component to quest content depth and goal setting in the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In order to achieve that goal, the game had to overcome two major challenges: it had to be free-to-play and it had to appeal to the Chinese audience. Given the lack of copyright enforcement, all western games were pirated, making premium games a losing proposition.

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Game Daily

MAY 3, 2023

We’re making sure that we have the right amount of content, making sure that creators are happy with the platform and that it makes sense for them from a business perspective, from a tooling perspective, and from an experience perspective. We are not the owner of the content they create. More content from big partners.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Hearthstone’s revenue has always been driven by new content releases, but the most recent content hasn’t been monetizing as well as the 2018 content. Hearthstone’s recent sets have also caused balance problems for the game, and in the time it takes to adjust, players churn at higher rates.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

For the rest of this blog post, we’ll be giving you an in-depth look at Runeterra’s design and innovations as well as discussing the unique monetization strategy Riot has announced for Runeterra - which places hard spending caps on content acquisition - and the implications of that strategy. Make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

A key reason is that Clash Mini seems in a much earlier and rough state than other Supercell soft launches : Less playable content, less spending depth, and several unfinished systems (i.e. This points out that new playable content is consumed faster than in other SC games. No reason to play leagues…).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

Both of the authors are true fans of Command & Conquer franchise and both of the authors understand all to well how hard it is to ship a hit mobile game. content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. #1 1 How to make an analytic global launch decision So, you have soft launched your game. Their gold stashes was drained, other players were got rich, and the overall balance was maintained.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Although, in these types of games, whenever there is a new content update, there is also a revenue spike, which can be shown in the case of Tower of Fantasy. Tower of Fantasy: co-op PvE game mode Dimensional Trial. The post Tower of Fantasy – Is the Game Really a Genshin Impact With a Social Twist?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

This one is written by Om Tandon (Director of User Experience, DIGIT Game Studios) and Abhimanyu Kumar (Mobile Games Consultant). content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2022

As games progress through their lifecycle, it becomes difficult to maintain the same level of acquisition costs they experienced post-launch. In addition, if the game is not evolving or developing quickly enough for players, live operations to keep up with content demands could require further investments.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

There was also this no-name developer Supercell that launched their first mobile games just few miles away back in 2012. What makes this game so successful? After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. Heroes: the way E&P scales content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Most mobile gaming companies bet on incremental innovation as their gateway to success. They make marginal improvements to an existing game, hoping to convince enough players to switch to their game. This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Playrix - True Behemoth of Casual Mobile Games Founded in 2004, Playrix entered the industry by making premium Match-3 and Hidden Object games. As a result of growth of app stores in early 2010s they switched their focus and decided to jump onto the free to play mobile games in 2011. Playrix’ active portfolio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2020

Hoping that your game is going to become a cultural phenomenon is a super long shot and often requires access to a top IP that can be very expensive. 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

It doesn’t reflect the effects of game-specific incidents like the Axie Infinity bridge hack , but it still is a very efficient tool for getting a good understanding of the whole market. There is also the fact that most of the big crypto investors who got rich through crypto hold most of their balance in Bitcoin.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

This might have some very light spoilers, but… honestly, one of my main criticisms is that there isn’t much to spoil in this game, at least not in the 27 or so hours that I played. One last thing about the combat: it is very poorly balanced.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Cookie Run is has some imporessive traction in the Western markets, which may potentially turn this game into a proper worldwide hit. The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Breaking into the top of the genre requires often massive development investments, an unrivaled content pipeline, and superb live operations - and often an appealing IP. All of the above require serious investments, which increases the risk of building an RPG game for a studio. Rule #3: Straightforward content production.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Previs animator - Previs artists create and block out 3D digital content that helps visualize what a scene, set, or certain actions will look like before it’s filmed, created, or finalized. They oversee both the foundation and execution of the game mechanics and overall user experience. What does a game designer do?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

This system has created amazing virality, as players can easily share their deck codes on platforms like Reddit or Marvel Snap Zone, leading to constant changes in the game's meta. As certain decks become dominant, players can quickly create counter decks to keep the game balanced and interesting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

The main reasons are (1) that the open positions are for systems & liveops design, and multiple artists; and (2) that the game RPD looks flat, which points out to a lack of content and endgame systems. That was Riot Games’ playbook with TFT and Wild Rift.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Over the years, Supercell’s portfolio has become slightly more balanced, with other games than the Clashes bringing in a more significant portion of the revenue. Supercell’s portfolio is more balanced and not so heavily reliant on Clash IP, which still brings over 50% of the revenue. Helsinki Here’s a caveat though.

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