Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. Their attempt with Spooky Pop likely informed some of the good decisions that led to HDP: balancing known wins and innovation, testing a recognizable and previously loved IP and following best practices from top casual games. Puzzle Pass.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

“I just assumed game development involved writing code all day.” Solo dev Josh Salley (HALbot Studios) “I believe in keeping a good work life balance” Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company, but actually it’s a ‘one-man-band company’, as founder and CEO Nicola Piovesan calls it.

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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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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 12, 2024

I wanted to write a third and final article about Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3 for short), a really great game that most people have moved on from, but I want to talk about the most important part of any RPG: LOOT. Happily, there are players who get all their fun from solving puzzles like that. Making money writing helps the self-esteem.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It usually starts with a ‘think pad’, which is basically just a google doc where I write down anything to do with a specific game concept. I played around with a few ideas and one of them was a simple cube rolling puzzle game. So I made a shift in puzzle design to negate that. This is never a good thing.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What inspired me to write about them is their approach to User Acquisition (UA) and how UA and creative findings impact their product roadmap. The misleading ad push was succeeded by the famous "Pull the pin" puzzle-style ads that put Evony and Hero Wars on the map in the past few years. The initial push with misleading ads from 2019.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Reigns does a good job balancing this information while leaving enough mystery for unexpected twists. Horror in the Darkness is a text-based horror puzzle-esque game. Choice is limited – this is much more of a mystery and puzzle-type game. Is this a safe choice? What’s the risk like? Is my character in danger? Conflict: 10/10.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 5, 2024

With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. When Ahmetcan isn’t busy crafting analysis or designing killer features for consulting clients, you’ll find him exploring Berlin's vibrant tech scene or writing for Deconstructor of Fun in one of the hipster cafes of the city. The main goal is still beating levels.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 15, 2024

The Tomb of Horrors was an early attempt to solve a very difficult problem: How to balance a turn-based RPG once characters get very powerful. Instead, Gygax filled his dungeon with obscure puzzles and instant deathtraps. Making money writing helps the self-esteem. Here's the map to the dungeon.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. When Ahmetcan isn’t busy crafting analysis or designing killer features for consulting clients, you’ll find him exploring Berlin's vibrant tech scene or writing for Deconstructor of Fun in one of the hipster cafes of the city.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I don't want to write a review. These are perfectly balanced. Doggo leads to an enormous, entirely optional area with tons of creative fights, fun puzzles, and neat stuff to do. That's It For Game Balance Next time, I'll go into the story. Its flaws are interesting flaws. I think a very solid, fair review is here.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 29, 2023

Through a series of cookery puzzles and dialog choices, players are immersed in Tamil culture, and the family’s emotive saga. ” When I interviewed Abhi, I was thinking a lot about non-violent games for this GameDaily story we ran yesterday, and for an upcoming story I’m writing for The Economist.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 24, 2023

But this write-up is not about Playrix's ability to out-execute rivals. It’s a breath of fresh air to endless calendar puzzles where you’re trying to set up a meeting with people. 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.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

But since I can't resist writing about the thing, I want to start with the key question: Why do people love these games so much, despite the sadism. If said community doesn't form to write online guides and wikis, all you have is an incomprehensible game that scares players off forever. They write beloved hits, one after another.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Will you make another puzzle game?”. Some of the puzzle games I’ve worked on. Puzzles are one of the biggest market categories and it continues to grow each year. The puzzle market is at a saturation point where it is hard to compete head-to-head with companies with a solid track record like Playrix, King and Peak Games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

As the builder of the kingdom, players have the god like power to write the story for their cookies as a part of designing and changing the layout of the the space. System The system design of the game and the in-game stats balance demonstrate Devsisters’ high standards. The metrics and stats balancing in the game work well!

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

This game packs some of the best balanced, nerve- wracking, strategic gameplay on a mobile device. Even better, the team has showcased a holistic focus on the game: Masterfully balanced the gameplay with regular nerfs/buffs, refreshing the meta Designed for both elder and new players, often forgotten by mature games Took risks (e.g.,

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Kudos to Neil Long of Mobilegamer.biz for joining the event and writing the notes. Running through the market by genre, Kress noted that King has done quite well, but other genres had suffered badly, with strategy, RPG, match puzzle, and casino games all down double digits. Shooters got creamed”, too, he said – down 33%.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Of course this change comes with significant balance repercussions, which we’ll cover when we get to discussing that topic further below. While some players enjoy puzzling out creative ways to get ahead, at the extreme end it eventually devolves into optimal tedium which is overall harmful to the experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The reason I’m writing about Warcraft Rumble is because the game gets really fun as you progress , and the meta is different enough than anything I’ve played before. The game has some serious depth and makes for a compelling single player campaign experience where every battle is a puzzle.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Even with the boost brought by Mario Kart, Racing only accounted for approximately 1% of the mobile market revenue ( compared to RPG which accounts for 30%+, or strategy/puzzle that account for 15% ). in 2019, the top 3 genres in terms of revenue ( RPG, Strategy and Puzzle ) accounted for 65% of mobile revenue.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Some game designers focus on combat balance, using spreadsheets and simulations to provide challenges without impossibility. They turn the vision of game designers into a functional reality, writing the code that governs how a game behaves. Others are writers and/or world directors who focus on player experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

The second Clash game was Clash Mini, which entered soft launch around three months from writing this article. On top of a smaller board, Clash Mini features no equipment system, no stat-based synergy system, no shared pool of units and a simplified balance logic of unit selection rolls and resources.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The reason I’m writing about Warcraft Rumble is because the game gets really fun as you progress , and the meta is different enough than anything I’ve played before. The game has some serious depth and makes for a compelling single player campaign experience where every battle is a puzzle.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. Early revenue per download data shows that it outperforms other Classic Match-3 titles and is as strong as full Puzzle & Decorate games, suggesting that players like the direction. It made $5.1

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. 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. Voyeurs work differently, they have sex by watching a couple have sex. So what did she want then?

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