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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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. The game is out now for PC and Nintendo Switch.

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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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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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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 5, 2024

I've been writing indie (aka shareware) games as the nearly sole source of my family's income for 30 years. During those decades, I've written a ton about the indie business, for money and on my blog. My most popular article , written wayyy back in 2013, was about the creation of the Indie Bubble. And this is just PC games.

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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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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. The game is out now for PC and Nintendo Switch.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

The brutal and bloody combat game from Slovenian developer Triternion has already been very successful for the last 4 years on PC. Memory limitations meant we needed to rework a lot of the materials from the PC version just to get everything in”, says Dunn. “We So, we had to be smart and make everything dynamic.

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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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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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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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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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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. PC is also a platform that can accommodate a variety of input devices and control schemes.

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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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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

Unity, once synonymous with indie development, now stands as a serious contender for console-quality game builds. ASTC for mobile, DXT5 for PC), and eliminate over-resolved images. URP is tailored for performance-sensitive titles such as mobile or VR, while HDRP enables cinematic fidelity for high-end PC and console games.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

To discuss the first court rulings from the perspective of a mobile game publisher I sat down with non-other than the powerful Eric Seufert from Mobile Dev Memo and the extremely knowledgeable Chris Hewish , President of Xsolla. Below you’ll find our conversation on YouTube and podcast. Consider it an appetizer to the content.

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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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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 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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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Games are equally distributed among platforms – roughly 40 percent each among mobile, PC, and browser games, with about 20 percent launched across multiple platforms. Indie games developed by small teams constitute 42 percent of the sector while mid-tier productions with funding less than $10 million are at 40 percent.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Each device left an enduring mark on the gaming landscape, contributing to the evolution of portable gaming and influencing subsequent evolutions in the industry including today’s multi-billion-dollar mobile gaming landscape. Here’s hoping we see the return of The Golden Age of Handheld Gaming soon. Why are handhelds not as popular today?

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

V3 is just one of many improvements we have been working on to make GameAnalytics the best and most cost effective platform for devs of all types – from indies to publishers, on everything from mobile, to Roblox and PC. Firstly, this new solution delivers a more powerful analytics tool.

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Moonmana

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Moonmana’s expert developers have created games for companies such as Warner Brothers, Azerion, Glu Mobile (parent company EA), Laguna Games, Rollic (parent company Zynga), Gameforge, Saber Interactive (parent company Embracer Group), Ruby Games (parent company Rovio), and a few others. “It

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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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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 30, 2020

Tim Sweeney, the CEO and founder of Epic Games, has been one of the few vocal critics of Apple and Google for misusing “monopolistic” positions of power on their respective mobile phone platforms. For example: Google’s use of user interface barriers with scary pop-ups when end-users try to download an Epic mobile app store for Android.

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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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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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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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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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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This year even the indie developers have had to admit that App Store discovery is dead. Publishers are also launching PC versions of their most popular titles to further capitalize on the off-platform trend. The streaming behemoth has been focused on publishing mostly canceled mobile games or ported PC titles.

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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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Game Development News

MAY 8, 2025

Ben Gunstone is the new CEO of indie developer Stainless Games, taking over from company founder Patrick Buckland

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