Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The mobile hit Empires and Puzzles (E&P) by Small Giant Games (acquired by Zynga) has made over $600M in net-revenues while racking up around 60 million installs. While there have been numerous clones and follow up titles trying to get a piece of the ever growing puzzle RPG pie, none of them has had any meaningful success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow. Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Last year Puzzle games generated a whopping $4.5Bn in IAP revenues while growing 18% year-on-year.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

It allows players to instantly swap places with any physics based object which allows for some clever puzzling through the relentless levels. “We So, a fantasy setting instead of everyday environments would provide the most room to be creative without being too shackled to anything too specific.”

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Sirlin

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Join Now Here are things I’d like to do: Add more characters and features to Fantasy Strike Create new tabletop games, and possibly more content for Codex Create digital versions of those tabletop games with good production values. About twice per month, I’m going to share new content / characters / games etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

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. So, here are our tips on how to reuse and loop your content the right way: 1. Plan content looping during the feature design phase.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

As I’ve gone through the Final Fantasy series recently , it’s notable that the games used to have secrets, and now, they pretty much don’t anymore. This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. What are secrets in videogames?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

6 focusing on web3 projects, primarily content creators, with 5 in gaming and one mobile play-to-earn platform. — The company has developed two mobile titles— Word Tiles Puzzle: Word Search and Restaurant Tycoon. a fantasy multiplayer RPG, but the project was shut down in May’24. million downloads collectively.

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Game Dev Unchained

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Its focus on user-generated content and community-driven game experiences positions it at the cutting edge of industry trends, where creativity and technology converge in new ways. The core of Escape from Hadrian’s Wall lies in its Elemental Golem Card Puzzles, where players summon magical Golems to combat enemy sentinels guarding the Wall.

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Sirlin

APRIL 12, 2020

For the last few years, I’ve thought about my tabletop games Puzzle Strike and Yomi. The status right now is that my patrons on Patreon have access to all of the new Puzzle Strike-inspired game’s materials. I’ve just started rolling out content for the Yomi-inspired game to my patrons as well. That stuff is all gone.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Let’s take the popular example of Candy Crush Saga , a level-based puzzle game. Environment artist An environment artist creates a fantasy game world by adding buildings, landscapes, colorful backgrounds and props that match the game design. They come up with ways to present the game plot, work out the script and plan the game levels.

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Game Dev Unchained

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Its focus on user-generated content and community-driven game experiences positions it at the cutting edge of industry trends, where creativity and technology converge in new ways. The core of Escape from Hadrian’s Wall lies in its Elemental Golem Card Puzzles, where players summon magical Golems to combat enemy sentinels guarding the Wall.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

While quenching his curiosity Olamide stumbled upon Encarta Kids, an enchanting encyclopedia brought to life through games, puzzles, and quizzes. In the early days of Dimension 11, Africacomicade would repost our content on social media and because their platform has more people engaging, the message went far and wide.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And Many More… There are so many more seemingly profitable hits — Rocky Rabbit (a PvP battle sim), Fanton Fantasy Football (a soccer/football idle sim), Farm Frens (an idle farming game), MemeFi Club with its clans and raids, the 18+ “dating” and clicker game Pocket Waifu , not to mention thousands of others slowly rising through the charts.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

none of Dishonored's morality system and I think this is good, the "stealth puzzle = humane cage free assassination" philosophy has aged poorly imo 69% less stealth. Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

To put the Strategy genre in proportion, it generates a whole Billion more than all Puzzle games combined. Though several puzzle genres do boast significant ad revenue streams, which bridge the gap in net revenue between the genres. We believe this is large because the audience at large doesn’t associate Final Fantasy with shooters.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. All the content in the game was just data in fields. On MOOs and LPMuds, you had a lower barrier for adding features, but you also had a higher barrier for “just making content.”

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It doesn't matter how good your content is if nobody sees it. Portal was a solid 2 hour puzzle game. Subscribe now Spiderweb Software creates turn-based, indie, old-school fantasy role-playing games. Baldur's Gate 3 is too long. Yeah, I know, you loved this character or that side quest or whatever. Doesn't matter.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

TWiG 234: 500m Gamers on Tik Tok Can't Be Wrong / Supercell Unleashes the Flood Over 500m Tik Tok users watch gaming content every month, according to Jen's recent trips on the conference circuit, and this audience is one that the crew things you should be building your game thesis around from day one! Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

to assist content creators using AI-based animation Nexon revenues jump 28% year-over-year Roblox revenue up 2% as quarterly losses hit $300 million Web3-based MMO develope r wins $10m in new capital Bandai Namco H1 sales rise above expectations Unity Q3 revenues are up but losses deepen to $239.6m million despite lowest quarter since 2020 ?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Hello, dear friends and fantasy aficionados. This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. link] Rigging / Animation.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Although this is typically the only place where you can get a monthly peek into all the development that goes into Kristala—a 3D dark fantasy ARPG from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—things will soon be changing. Ready to see how things are going now in the fantasy world of Ailur? Let's dive in. Concept Art. 3D Character Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

We did call out AppLovin as the biggest winner of 2021 applauding their content fortress strategy. Best game of 2022 A year ago we talked about Death Loop, Final Fantasy IV, Outriders, Valheim, and Royal Match as being in the run for being the best games of 2021. How the mighty fall and how wrong we were. They’ve divested from games.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the official Kristala dev blog, where we break down the development process for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala each month. If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. Why, you might ask?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). The first official gameplay trailer for Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala. Behold, friends!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Greetings, friends and fantasy aficionados! Allie made sure to thoroughly document her process as she went, so we hope you enjoy the below content featuring the intricate movements we can now create in our animations thanks to Allie's custom facial rig. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. link] Sound Design.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. They are meant more for trend analysis based on estimations, rather than an exact numbers.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Creature animator - Breathing life into real-life and fantasy creatures, creature animators add nuance and personality through movements, gestures, facial expressions, and how the creature interacts (and reacts) with its environment and other characters/creatures.

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

Basically, there’s a lot of puzzle pieces and an infinite number of ways they COULD fit together, but there’s only one or two ways they fit together in dramatic and satisfying ways, so this tells us exactly how the ending must unfold. In the fiction of Fantasy Strike, the story world of the games I make, I face a similar dilemma.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

The Cookie Run universe has incorporated major archetypes from pop culture - D&D, fantasy literature, wild west, age of discovery, etc. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

You are a fantasy monster trying to sate your insatiable appetite. Still, even the most ingenious crime is only a puzzle for the world’s only consulting detective—Sherlock Holmes! Let’s get started. Hobby Board Games. Tasty Humans – $25. Description from Manufacturer. 7 Wonders $45 (and 7 Wonders Duel $25).

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 29, 2021

It takes lots of inspiration from Hay Day while introducing a whole new IP based on a cute fantasy world unrelated to any other Supercell franchise. Nevertheless, Everdale is not a placement puzzle like a typical city-building game. This week, Supercell soft-launched a new crafting tycoon game called Everdale. Nothing surprising there.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

IMHO, this makes it a different situation from the Second Dinner core team (of Marvel Snap fame), who were already used to working together at delivering top-level content and was easier for them to become operative. And newly assembled groups often take a lot of time (even years) to evolve into a high-functioning team.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

Similar to Heroes Charge, Puzzles and Dragons, Empires and Puzzles, Idle Heroes, Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, Legendary, and Marvel Strike Force. Two of these stand out in particular: Limited amount of content increases accessibility At currently 48 heros, the game ranks in the lower end for hero content on a launch product gacha title.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils what happens in the game.

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