Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

. - Executive of a small developer who has till date amassed well over 100M installs on mobile The end of discovery also means that there will be no indie breakouts from small indie developers. Instead, the indie developers will have three options. Join one of the few powerful game companies taking over mobile.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. But not only is it the first to make it to mobile, it’s also the first one to be free to play. Summoners War: Chronicles is yet another MMORPG to make it to mobile. It’s tricky taking any game from PC and Console to mobile.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 24, 2018

This is based on dollars, not units, so mobile numbers will be smaller due to price. The argument that players don’t want to play point-and-click on a console doesn’t hold water given how well we did on Xbox. Here is a breakdown of Thimbleweed Park sales by store for 2017. 75% of the money from Apple comes from iOS.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 25, 2018

This is based on dollars, not units, so mobile numbers will be smaller due to price. The argument that players don't want to play point-and-click on a console doesn't hold water given how well we did on Xbox. Here is a breakdown of Thimbleweed Park sales by store for 2017. 75% of the money from Apple comes from iOS.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I believe that mobile games could be facing the same deliberate death-by-a-platform as games Facebook suffered a decade ago. Just remember one thing: Even though Facebook pulled the plug on games, the gaming business rose to unexpected new heights on a new platform, which was mobile. And many indies are.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The market is so saturated, that every little defect becomes an ‘elephant in the room’ for players that often compare a low-budget indie title to AAA games. Consoles and Mobile will follow in a few weeks. And that maybe sometimes it’s better to make it simple, but make it perfect.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 26, 2024

This conversation painted a nuanced picture of the current market, particularly the PC/console segment, and offered a glimpse into its future trajectory. Mobile Opening Up: mobile gaming is set to grow by 3%, driven by improving economic conditions, platforms opening up, and increasing the success of existing big hits.

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Game Development News

MARCH 27, 2025

Pantaloon has announced The Pantaloon Label, a new indie publishing imprint for 'misfit games'

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Game Development News

APRIL 3, 2025

NEOWIZ has unveiled a new indie game development program called NEOWIZ Quest

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Private Division’s Michael Worosz and Blake Rochkind sat down with Vince Pavey to tell him all about Take-Two’s independent - but not indie - developer label

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Small teams and solo developers often produce some of the most unique and personal games, and this holds true for Rablo Games, an indie studio led by founder Pablo Coma. During his time there, he reconnected with a colleague from a previous game jam, Baptiste Remy, who shared an interest in making smaller indie games outside of work hours.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 21, 2024

Additionally, Hollow Home will be at Gamescom, as a part of the Polish Indie Booth, Hall 10.2, With the game Hollow Home , Ukrainian indie studio Twigames shows what it means to live in an occupied city. The team consists of 20 people that provide full-cycle development for mobile, PC, consoles, VR/AR platforms, and porting services.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 31, 2024

The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. In the years that followed the team evolved into a game development studio, initially making games for Flash, HTLML5 and mobile, but now expanded to console development as well.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2024

With the game Hollow Home , Ukrainian indie studio Twigames shows what it means to live in an occupied city. The team consists of 20 people that provide full-cycle development for mobile, PC, consoles, VR/AR platforms, and porting services. Twigames was founded in 2015 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Game Development News

JUNE 13, 2023

Tandem Events has announced the shortlist of finalists for the Develop:Brighton 2023 Indie Showcase competition - MCV/DEVELOP

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AWS Games

AUGUST 15, 2024

Join CleverTap Gaming and AWS for an immersive, inspiring experience with some of the brightest minds in mobile and console gaming at the Product x LiveOps Symposium, which takes place from 16:00-17:30 CET. Register here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Now approaching its 10th anniversary, Norsfell has grown from a small startup developing mobile games into a studio with nearly 40 team members who helped launch the award-winning multi-platform game, “ Tribes of Midgard.” Independent game development studio, Norsfell , was founded in 2013 to forge new genres that bring people together.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. In the years that followed the team evolved into a game development studio, initially making games for Flash, HTLML5 and mobile, but now expanded to console development as well.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Video games have evolved significantly over the years, branching out onto different platforms such as mobile devices, PC, and Consoles. Mobile games often incorporate diverse monetization models. For indie developers or smaller studios, is focus group testing still feasible and beneficial?

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The advent of handheld gaming consoles marked a significant era in the gaming industry. This bubble of time, between the early 2000s and mid-2010s, witnessed the rise of several iconic handheld consoles, including the Sony PSP, and various iterations of Nintendo’s DS line, such as the Nintendo DS, 3DS, and 2DS.

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Jaunty Bear Games

OCTOBER 9, 2022

If it’s been a while since you visited your local arcade or bought an Atari game console for your home, then chances are you have forgotten just how simple video games used to be. For example, indie game developer DrinkBox Studios recently launched Guacamelee!, Let’s take a look at some of them below. Retrogaming And Nostalgia.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 30, 2024

New indie publisher Raftur Games was set up late last year, partly in response to the layoffs that were blighting the industry. As well as funding, the proudly neurodivergent co-founders hope to offer unrivalled marketing and business support that will help get developers back on their feet. CMO Malize Evans told us more

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

Then the first wave of really successful indie games appeared on Steam, in the late 00s and early 10s. People who follow indie/solo devs on social media tend to be really nice and positive, but even so it takes a lot of effort.” It was the first answer I had as a child to the question ‘what do you want to be when you grow up’?

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

mobile, consoles with weaker hardware specs, indie games) for important parts. As in-engine rendering improves, AAA games will likely move away from pre-rendered cutscenes but AAA games are far from the only games that use cutscenes and have engines that can render high quality cinematic visuals (e.g.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 17, 2023

That’s worked hand-in-hand with the rise of the indie scene. I would estimate that more than three quarters of the games in the book are from indies, who are more willing to take risks than big studios. Batchelor: “Non-violent games have certainly become more prevalent and more prominent.

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Game Development News

MARCH 15, 2023

Gamedev Fund is now accepting applications for funding from developers over in the EU

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Big Games

AUGUST 17, 2021

Earlier the game players were constricted to play online games such as simple puzzles to adventures series only on the desktop, but the massive development of mobile technology within the past few years has brought a noticeable change in the game application development industry. Sometimes, you might have to update the game each year.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Unity is considered the best solution for mobile game development. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects. Perfect for mobile and small game development. No problem!

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Game Development News

MAY 3, 2023

Richie Shoemaker flicks through the first issue of Debug, a new games magazine edited by veteran mag-ician Dean Mortlock that aims to be a champion for indie titles, studios and publishers

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

If market trends, especially on PC and Console, are something you want to hear more about, I highly suggest you check out my conversation with Newzoo’s Head of Consulting, Ben Porter below. The bull case : AI will supercharge indie developers allowing them to challenge large AAA by removing production constraints.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 25, 2019

Almost 100k developers (companies and indies) meet in San Francisco every year in March to showcase their work, make business meetings, socialize, have fun, etc. From the indie side, most Indies did hear about it, but for company executives Godot remains largely unknown.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 1, 2020

Today, especially on the mobile gaming side, the market has matured over the past 10 years with many of the key vendor categories having well entrenched and well capitalized players. Growth Area: Console and PC games are increasingly shifting to free to play monetization and therefore a live operating model. in net revenue on mobile.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

This is where 99.99% of indie developers and studios make their main and most fatal mistake. Indie gamers, e.g.: People looking for cool, smaller games to play, no matter the type. Publicity for a mobile game is out of the question, it's too expensive. You can get a publisher, but most mobile publishers are scammers.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

Next, we realized how difficult it would be to be successful on mobile without a big marketing partner so, when Windows 8 (remember Windows 8?) It was an intensely stressful and uncertain time full of the highs and lows of indie development. was announced, we pivoted hard towards Windows.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Women in Games: Celebrating Your Achievements & How to Effect Change – leaders from studios, startups and indies alike will come together to join in a discussion on the state of the games industry for women, including how to celebrate victories and create lasting affirmations to career development in the gaming industry.

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Game Development News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

There were 320,000 people at this year’s gamescom. We pulled aside five of them to see what they thought of it - MCV/DEVELOP

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