Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

Genre-Specific Winners: Puzzle Games Prevailed: The genre fell by only 6% YoY in downloads and gained 10% in IAP revenue, thanks to new games like Block Blast and Royal Match, and established hits such as Candy Crush and Gardenscapes. Puzzle remained strong by focusing on retaining its current user base through events and live operations.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 5, 2024

With a knack for puzzle, arcade, and simulation games. Puzzle games have a simple yet addicting core loop: playing levels. Puzzle games have a simple yet addicting core loop: playing levels. This is where the most crucial player motivation for puzzle games comes into play: Win Streak.

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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. There are many more ways how data can increase your chances of building and operating a successful mobile game. No one tried to challenge whether it was worth building what the team originally had in mind.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

Build armies, move troops strategically around to fortify positions in an attempt to strengthen your position, and attack and defend. In Mario Teaches Typing, there are four games to choose from, each one building on the previous one with regard to difficulty levels. Build and manage the various operations of a modern skyscraper.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I chose the City Sample Demo because it already looks amazing, and since the class lessons were in using the Take Recorder instead of environment building, this seemed like a win for my time spent and potentially having something cool for my portfolio. I imported the recorded takes into the City Sample Demo and started placing the actors.

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Game Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

For a lot of our first time creators, we don’t anticipate them building their own universe. We’re not racing towards AIs telling stories. Then within that universe, you create adventures, which inherit everything that exists at the universe level. GameDaily: How far are you using AI in Adventure Forge?

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

The wide selection of video game genres means that translators won’t be stuck on high-fantasy language or racing games for the rest of their careers but might also need to learn about cooking, board games, politics, astrophysics (okay, maybe I am exaggerating), and so on. So wear that top hat and be prepared to solve some puzzles!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Race for the Galaxy , for example, is often accused of being multiplayer solitaire – although the other humans add noise to the system, and mastery comes from predicting that noise. Pax Pamir is perhaps that alternate version of Race – Pamir is not a bad engine-building game, it’s a good some-other-sort-of game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

Leave it another Finnish team to build some truly innovative gameplay mechanics in their action strategy title, Battle Legion. Players build their army from a selection of troop types, and send them into battle. Again, Clash Royale showed the way of how to build good troop AI for a battle with an ever-changing battlefield.

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Games Mechanics Mobile Mobile 52

Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition? Although the feline-like Anagativa and the rodent-like Kotakaya are the most prominent creatures featured in Kristala, the Kota aren't the only rodent race that thrives on planet Ailur. Convenient, right? Events - Kristala Featured at IWOCon 2020.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2024

40% QoQ) and Wood Screw Puzzle (–23% QoQ). Lastly, the snake design closely resembles Snake Run Race by Freeplay, a game with 71M installs. However, the number of newcomers is on a downtrend from quarter to quarter.

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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The game's scarce resources and the constant threat of danger build an atmosphere of desperation and vulnerability, making every encounter a potential nightmare. The game’s puzzle-solving elements add depth, forcing players to explore and interact with their creepy surroundings. The Last of Us 9.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 8, 2024

This decision remains puzzling, as there was no pressure to launch Squad Busters. Or you can start from nothing and build up over a long period of time. In a game built on streaks, the inability to at least test the match-3 playbook (Lava Quest, Episode Race. etc) is puzzling. Both end up in roughly the same place.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Players can join Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer as they embark on epic quests, solving intricate puzzles, facing dynamic combat challenges, and exploring breathtaking environments. Grid Autosport This is a 2014 racing video game by Codemasters, representing the third installment in the Grid series.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Anyway when you get to late-game and you're racing to play a super powerful unit first, you’re happy to slow the opponent down with Jail. In fighting game parlance, that's known as an "option select," which is also the name of a Puzzle Strike chip!) Let's compare it to when you destroy a tech building. First, Injunction.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. This is in line with the current rise in popularity of games with the equally satisfying Merge mechanic in the puzzle genre. In theory, the IDFV allows a publisher to build user profiles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These efforts were hampered by what it identified as increased market competition, particularly in the puzzle genre. In its Q4 2017 financial report —its first full quarter as a public company— Rovio admitted it was unable to significantly scale what it had previously identified as growth titles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sports games declined largely due to big IP racing games (ex. 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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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. Betrayal at House on the Hill quickly builds suspense and excitement as players explore a haunted mansion of their own design, encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. This is a game of building a deck of cards.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

We used the following basic criteria in building out our list of the best GBA games of all time: Did it perform as designed? Building on the legendary (pun intended) Zelda, this GameBoy Advance version successfully captured the essence of the original game but added a multilayer element that was called Four Swords. Was it fun to play?

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

After all, he created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! The Race to the Finish. In a game like Tasty Humans, each player is primarily lost in their own world of puzzle-solving. Many of you know that our Kickstarter campaign, Tasty Humans , has just debuted on Kickstarter !

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

This deconstruction is written by: Michail Katkoff , Adam Telfer , Florian Ziegler & Alexandre Mcmillan Core Loop and Gameplay AFK Arena is a best in class turn-based-RPG, which builds upon the standard best practices of the genre while innovating lightly in the core gameplay and core loop.

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