Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Sports saw YoY growth of +29% ($880M) , while Racing registered +23% YoY ($331M). Games that have a huge fan base. Access all of our previous predictions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We review the game of the week: Talking Tom Time Rush from Outfit7 ✉️ Received this email from a friend? These are the Mobile Games Defying Economic Headwinds — and Why In data.ai These are the Mobile Games Defying Economic Headwinds — and Why In data.ai Subscribe here!

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

Millions of mobile games are out there battling for engagement, yet only a few titles manage to fight their way to the top. If you’re struggling with new ways to build on your existing LiveOps strategy, our award winners (which include the likes of Scopely’s Monopoly GO!, Their secret to success? Mastering the art of LiveOps.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The game features action-combat including magical powers in player-vs-environment and player-versus-player modes. Players can build their own “levels, stories, game experiences and even worlds” as they craft, trade, buy and sell resources, equipment, land, and other commodities.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Vibrating controller What followed was a series of visits to a neighbourhood gaming arcade to play games on the PlayStation. He fell in love with driving games like C3 Racing, Forza, Turismo, and Project Scars. He kept going to gaming arcades, using the coins he saved from lunch and transport money.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

They say imitation is a form of flattery, and there’s no shortage of mobile games that share a striking similarity with other popular titles in the PC, console and mobile markets. Players race, jump and dash through three rounds of obstacle courses (maps).

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A brief rundown of current Telegram hits include: Hamster Kombat This idle game is the most popular gaming app on Telegram, with almost 100 million MAU! It’s a simple but very slickly designed “business sim” where you build your own ‘crypto exchange’, with a hamster as CEO. Tap the button and you’re off to the races!

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. this series is written by Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Whether you’re a casual gamer looking for some entertainment or a dedicated hardcore game enthusiast, today, we have curated a list of the best high-graphics games for Android just for you. Let’s explore the Top 10 Mobile Game Development without wasting your precious time! So, are you excited to take a look?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Here's the panel description: Title: Creating Touchstones in Emergent Narratives When: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Time: 11:15 - 12:10 Eastern Time Games have a unique ability to establish empathy between a player and a world and characters, but game players don’t always follow the path the narrative lays out for them.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is the second and the final part of the series on how to build and grow products with data (you can find the first part here ). Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 15, 2024

Whether it's expanding their brand's reach, targeting specific audiences, or exploring new platforms like mobile gaming, understanding these motivations can inform and elevate your pitch. However, some manufacturers may require more persuasion, especially if they already have a strong presence in other games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2023

Written by Tiffany Keller , who is a Director of Product and investor with a decade of experience in mobile games across Scopely, Activision Blizzard, Miniclip, and Zynga. It’s only a matter of time before mobile competitors go cross-platform and via cross-promoting their top mobile players threaten Fall Guys’ console dominance.

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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. Or you can start from nothing and build up over a long period of time.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. If you’re looking for an Unreal Game Development Company, there are some key factors to consider in order to make an informed choice. Each block may depict a cliff or a building, for instance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Microsoft revealed that it saw PC Game Pass subscriptions increase by 159 percent year over year and that more than 20 million people have streamed games on Xbox Cloud Gaming, up from 10 million earlier this year. PC looks like an obvious growth area for Microsoft.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Rovio has one of the most famous mobile gaming IPs on the planet, Angry Birds. Angry Birds is the OG mobile game franchise that proved how big the market could be. In a post-ATT world, having such a recognizable, world-class franchise in-house is incredibly valuable.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity is considered the best solution for mobile game development. Games can be developed through the tools in the integrated visual scripter called Blueprint. In other words, you can build a game using only blueprints because they are valid pieces of code.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Long and Winding Road to COD: Mobile’s Launch To tell the story of Call of Duty Mobile, you have to start all the way back in 2008. At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. The title (known as Arena of Valor in the west) grossed over $1.9

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

You can check out one of our past newsletter articles (read: A race to the bottom on creator royalties? There is a huge value misalignment within the blockchain games industry. These changes start with bringing individuals who are then able to bring others along with them, but it takes a village to make a game.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In this infinite runner mobile game, players are always given three “missions” which encourage them to play the game in an unusual way (“Have a near miss with a missile” or “Rub your head against the roof for 500 meters”), which is a surprisingly effective way to change the feel of a game that one might play over and over again hundreds of times.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

This is a logical decision given a) how difficult it is to scale a Match-3 game and b) how “poorly” (compared to the original Candy Crush Saga) the follow up titles have performed. The game itself though is extremely well made. Merge Dragons is such a well-designed game that it’s hard to differentiate from it without making it worse.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’m reminded a bit of those mobile games where the first 10 minutes is like this absolutely incredible looking and sounding thing, and then you’re sort of “dropped off” into the same old 2015 gacha clone looking thing. You can date in this game, but only women, because Adachi is a man. That would be bad.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Some people may be familiar with my past work : uncanny CG beefcake sex games that toy with hardcore gamer aesthetics, which only run on laptop / desktop computers. For the longest time, I've wanted to make a gay mobile game, but I was unsure how to get my queer politics past Apple and Google's anti-sexuality censors.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Summarizing an entire year of mobile gaming while providing predictions for what is going to happen next is a challenge that we at Deconstructor of Fun undertake every year. An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. The Macro-Level View As we know, 2020 was a year of unprecedented growth for mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We can say with more confidence than ever that gaming is at the heart of media and entertainment. For the past decade, we’ve looked at mobile gaming as the driver of gaming growth, both in terms of new players and revenue generated. But what if you’re spending all that money to build a new franchise?

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is a guest post by Vinayak Sathyamoorthy , Group Product Manager at Reddit, an ex-Zynga Product Manager and an avid mobile gamer. Leave it another Finnish team to build some truly innovative gameplay mechanics in their action strategy title, Battle Legion. Vinayak Sathyamoorthy. Battle Legion ’s AI feels consistently logical.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Those games are trying to acquire users through free mints, taking a page out of the F2P playbook. However, if blockchain games want to be relevant in a scale that matters, they need to take the front page out of that book: existing in mobile devices. One of the surest ways to do it is letting them pay via fiat currency, a.k.a,

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