Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Look for companies that offer full-cycle game development services, that cover everything from art, animation, VR/AR/XR-based development, right up to game testing. From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Is it well-defined?

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Game Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In particular, the playbook Creative Prototyping and the Creative Success Framework are curated to help strategically test what works for your audience, and to gather a clear understanding of what “good” creative means. 1 Meta-commissioned survey of 505 games marketers across the US, UK, DE, KR, CH by MTM, February 2022.

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

As exhibited by this research with Analytics Edge, gaming advertisers relying solely on attribution for decision-making are increasingly leaving money on the table. A combination of Creative Prototyping with a robust Creative Success Framework could unlock opportunities to do just that Do your teams have the right objectives?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is the author of the book Freemium Economics and the founder of Mobile Dev Memo , the ultimate growth blog and podcast. It is tempting for mobile games marketing teams to think of 2021 as being dominated by Apple’s impending new privacy policy for iOS, App Tracking Transparency (ATT). Access all of our previous predictions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Starting over, is the game commercially viable? Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? After a good idea, the most natural action is to prototype it.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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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

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Everything looks tiny when compared with one of the biggest mobile games in history. It follows a worrying trendline of Supercell’s subsequent games having ever weaker monetization at launch. A live game is expected to grow with each content update. That’s scary. This is not Hay Day where I visit farms.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

While these are not directly gaming-related news, both Meta and FTX were significant players in the gaming ecosystem. Meta’s venture into the metaverse coincided with Apple’s privacy changes and resulted in the loss of the platform as the number one ad channel for mobile games. They’ve divested from games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Everything looks tiny when compared with one of the biggest mobile games in history. It follows a worrying trendline of Supercell’s subsequent games having ever weaker monetization at launch. A live game is expected to grow with each content update. That’s scary. This is not Hay Day where I visit farms.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity is considered the best solution for mobile game development. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects. Additionally, UE is good for prototyping. The game engine is open-source. What Are The Pros Of The Unity Game Engine? Unity also enables quick prototyping.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. Source: Mobile Gaming Industry Analysis for H1 2019. Archero had a soft-launch period of 2-3 months, and probably the same amount of time before that for prototyping and design iteration.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 22, 2020

For example, NetEase developed Knives Out with a japanese local developer, Garena Free Fire have optimized their game for lower tier devices and have years of experience growing games in south east asia. Live ops through content releases and merchandising is also highly active for the title.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Previs animator - Previs artists create and block out 3D digital content that helps visualize what a scene, set, or certain actions will look like before it’s filmed, created, or finalized. Game design jobs in the industry Game designers are required for all types of video games—from console to online to mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And seems it provides a solid ground to start hiring the rest of the team, while they start prototyping their ideas. It’s well-documented that the R&D process at Riot involves prototyping with small teams , which in turn could resemble the famous (Super) cell structure. And past experience in entrepreneurship.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The only true bright spot was Art of War , which despite prototype level production quality has scaled up to over 5M in net revenue a month with no stop in sight! The game has failed to see an uplift ever since mid-2019 when the battle pass was first introduced into the game. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along. Surely that would work!

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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 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. Some content, I just record and publish. They get to a prototype level.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Thus a full breakdown of the newly released game is warranted. Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. It’s simple, relatively easy to make, and aside from scheduling events, has a light content treadmill.

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