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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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

I thought it would be interesting to contrast this to Word Dad , a puzzle game made by my friend, master game designer John Cutter. A brief aside on puzzles All three of these are more correctly called puzzles, of course. This means that really, puzzles and games are terms that are matters of degree, not kind.

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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2024

We are an adventure puzzle game with 7 big chapters and 300+ small chapters. and more than 20 different puzzle mechanisms. First of all, the whole driver of the game is divided into the data part and the display part. The data part is based on the cocos editor plugin for data construction. Three bows.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2024

Wood Nuts: Screw Puzzle The first game on the list is a title by Zego Studio: Wood Nuts: Screw Puzzle. In this game, the user solves various puzzles by unscrewing everything on the screen. To keep players engaged, the game features a leaderboard that motivates players to achieve better results by solving more complex puzzles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 20, 2020

A bold move for Supercell, going against giants that continue to rule the casual puzzle space. Curiously, market data shows that the simpler “Scapes” style games actually perform better than Fishdom. The market data suggests that they adopted an outdated model rather than create a new one. The Twist: The Puzzle Pass.

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Real Programming

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

From securing online transactions to safeguarding government communications for organizations like the CIA , cryptographers play a vital role in keeping data safe. Actuarial science is ideal for individuals who love problem-solving and thrive on tackling complex data sets. Integral to cybersecurity and blockchain technology.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

We pulled the data of top 1000 games from last three years from the one and only App Annie and aligned the data with the categories, genres and sub-genres. ❤️ App Annie for unrivalled data support. Alrighty then, lets kick off the predictions with the Puzzle genre! Puzzle Games Continued to Grow.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Looking at current popularity data of the highest-grossing games of the US market (top 200 grossing games), 23% of casual games and 47% of mid-core games are utilizing minigames. The King’s Nightmare titled levels are timed match3 puzzle levels where you have limited time to complete the level to save the King.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

year-over-year from 2021 to 2022 (TikTok Internal Data, 2022) – makes it the perfect place to find inspiration for casual and hyper-casual mobile games. Match 3D’s guild mechanic is its ‘Team’ feature, which introduces social aspects to the simple, ‘hyper-casual-ish’ core puzzle gameplay. Conclusion.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 21, 2023

Companies have since been forced to seek permission from app users before tracking their activity across other apps and websites for advertising purposes, meaning they now lack much of the valuable data previously used to build highly-effective UA campaigns.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Mobile game developer and publisher Pixel Federation entertains more than 140M players worldwide with popular mobile games, including ‘ Diggy’s Adventure ,’ ‘ Trainstation 2 ,’ ‘ Puzzle Adventure ,’ and ‘ Port City.’ The implementation was a huge effort that required significant time and resources.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Players pay extra moves to complete challenges to see new mechanics/puzzles, not progress a story) Narrative-driven games are fundamentally different. Gameplay vs Narrative Analysis Even a high-level analysis of publicly available data reveals the growing prevalence of narrative-driven games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. data from the ever amazing Sensor Tower. data from the unrivalled GameRefinery. It has been there ever since. Wooga GmbH.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 23, 2023

Oscar Hogervorst is founder and CEO of Steam Data Suite , a data-driven tool designed to give users insight in the inner workings of Steam and help them make informed decisions and strategies. ” Oscar Hogervorst of Steam Data Suite When it comes to driving traffic to store pages, various channels play a role.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For quick answers, refer to our PDF featuring the essential data points from this article: GDEV x InvestGame – Feature #5 For a comprehensive analysis, let’s delve into the detailed investigation below. This timeframe allowed us to select the most accurate data using our proprietary deals database. What’s up with the exits?

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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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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As they try to escape the ship, the events match the timing, location and intensity of the sinking, based on the latest historical data available. This took us literal years to master, and we still find that planning puzzles for VR requires extra attention to detail to make it work. Our creative process is a bit mixed.

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Real Programming

MARCH 28, 2025

From game design to data science, math-based careers are more excitingand more accessiblethan ever. They start seeing problems as puzzles, setbacks as part of the process, and success as something they can build, line by line. To break down problems, troubleshoot with curiosity, and build something from scratch.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 6, 2024

When integrated with traditional marketing foundations like storytelling and retargeting, they hold even more data-rich potential for brand interaction and recall. For example: The puzzle game Royal Match created a simple match-3 playable ad to showcase its core gameplay. The potential of playable ads extends far beyond gimmicks.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 11, 2023

Thief Puzzle: to pass a level Another new hit with 27M downloads is Thief Puzzle: to pass a level. The game’s monetization strategy is focused primarily on In-app Ads: it has short levels with a big amount of post-level and try-again Interstitial ad placements that allow Thief Puzzle: to pass a level to generate high LTV.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In Wacky Wizards, the player solves puzzles and makes potions. You’ll need live data. When the community expects rapid development, it’s important to be getting live data about how your game is performing. “They forget that every game on Roblox is multiplayer.”. Analytics was super important to our development,” Janzen said.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

ALT First, we try to reduce the amount of data that needs to be transferred. This can be a mini-game, a puzzle, a practice dojo, a buy/sell/equip gear interface for the chosen mission, or even an elevator ride while the player listens to character conversations. This is usually handled in one of a several ways.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

Dream Games has joined that list by bolstering its hold on match-3 puzzles and widening its already mass-market audience through the addition of its newest game, Royal Kingdom , which features one of the smoothest casual PvP designs in the market. Without insight into their plan and profitability, it’s pure speculation from our perspective.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. We very quickly had empirical data that suggested that a certain subset of board gamers loved the art. After a year of development, Tasty Humans raised $20,536 on Kickstarter. Late Development.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 22, 2019

I did the entire balancing process without any data at all, and now, after it’s all done, we have the data. Meaning, we were collecting data, I just didn’t have a way to actually look at it until now, after the whole balancing process is basically complete. First, a reminder about what success even looks like.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 25, 2019

However, what made me look into all this data was the overwhelming amount of people on my Facebook group, social media channels, and chat room saying one of two things: Board gaming is getting stale and all the games look the same. RPGs won’t scratch the board gamer itch for puzzles or crunchy heavy board games.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With a core commitment to innovation and quality, the company has recently shifted its focus towards developing casual puzzle games, to continue providing excellent gaming experiences across diverse demographics. To optimize data transfers and ensure high availability, Good Job Games implemented a multi-layered approach.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Horror in the Darkness is a text-based horror puzzle-esque game. Choice is limited – this is much more of a mystery and puzzle-type game. The developer has gone the extra mile to layer in beautiful, clever puzzle elements that keep you wondering and coming back for more. Data can tell you a story of its own. Change: 9/10.

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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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Retro Game Coders

APRIL 30, 2022

Firstly , as this is a programming tutorial, it allows us to introduce some extremely useful programming concepts: Arrays and pre-defined data Object definition and tracking Parsing strings for textual input Subroutines and modular coding. Data Structures. An array is simply an ordered list of data with a numerical index.

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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. NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. Kind of sad.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the powerful Sensor Tower and analyzed by the author(s). Data from China, Korea and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. Small Giant did it with Puzzle and Empires. All revenue numbers show net revenues.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all data is gathered from the one and only App Annie and analysed by the author(s). This makes RPGs the third largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.4Bn) and Puzzle ($4.5Bn) games. Idle RPGs (not to be confused with Idle games) and Puzzle RPGs were the biggest growing sub-genres in 2019.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Another example is the 'Puzzles' collection mechanics, where the player farms puzzle pieces in hard match-3 levels to assemble pictures. So we decided to loop the puzzles at the same time as adding new ones. Always ask your players! Collect feedback, follow players' community posts, and conduct surveys.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2024

40% QoQ) and Wood Screw Puzzle (–23% QoQ). However, the number of newcomers is on a downtrend from quarter to quarter. This time, we only have two to cover. The first one up is the confident number 3 in the downloads top: Hole.io by VOODOO with 23M installs in Q3 2024.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. In this analysis, data from China, Korea, and Japan are excluded as this analysis focuses on Western markets only. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Yet, the real game-changer came when they borrowed a fraction of these strategies and applied them to an entirely new puzzle game. Optimization, in its many facets, lies at the heart of Spyke's development ethos: “We optimise for speed, for quality, and for data-driven decision-making. That is my number one priority”.

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