PreMortem.Games

JUNE 28, 2024

Games for Change , in partnership with HP and Google Play, announced the winners of the second annual Diverse Voices, New Stories Challenge at the 2024 Games for Change Festival. The challenge is an initiative to improve representation and increase visibility for underrepresented game developers in the mobile gaming industry.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 14, 2024

Attendees who discovered the event through the viral tweet emphasized the power of social media in spotlighting local talent. Scaling a game on your own is challenging if you want it to reach a global audience.” By highlighting the rich potential in Nairobi’s gaming community, he is paving the way for future developers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As many of our peers are considering shifting their games to P2E, the question everyone is asking is whether this new business model can create sustained success, or whether it’s just the latest hype-driven bubble set to burst. Naturally, mobile game companies are in constant search of new blue spots in the red ocean to compete in.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Mobile game makers and indies can get mired in a host of different costs and expenses as component licensing arrangements—by relying on different service providers for specific technologies (e.g., cloud infrastructure, localization, customer support)—often lead to revenue fragmentation.

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Game Daily

MAY 21, 2023

Lessons in social gaming Fostering “strong, meaningful and enjoyable social connections within gaming communities” is the theme of Victoria Gomes-Boronat’s talk on Harnessing the Power of Social Gaming.

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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.’

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Independent game development studio, Norsfell , was founded in 2013 to forge new genres that bring people together. 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.”

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

February 2024 events and dates TBC Hyper Games Conference Global 2nd – 3rd | Online A business event for mobile game and web3 game industry leaders, connecting game developers with publishers and game services around the world. Find out more. Find out more. Find out more. Find out more. Find out more.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To ensure visual quality, consistency across platforms, adherence to artistic and design integrity, validation of user interfaces, localization, regression testing , and problem discovery, image-based testing becomes crucial. touch( , durations=5, times=6) Conclusion: This paper focused on tested mobile game development.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

It specializes in game development. . iXie initially focused solely on game QA and specialized QA but recently the studio broadened its area of expertise to include game localization, art production, and 3D services. . Its establishment in 1998 makes Keywords Studio a bonafide old-timer in the gaming industry.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Ultimately, many games experience increased costs and stalls in growth over time, and a good way to unlock growth is to find new pockets of players outside of English-centric countries. How much should you localize versus culturalize? This information tells us whether we need to localize the game in order to succeed in the chosen geo.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Later on, he collaborated with local media houses to publish Wana Savana comic strips. However, he still remained concerned that his games were not getting the traction he desired. One of Macharia’s biggest accomplishments came when his mother provided funding to complement what he had, allowing him to publish comic books.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

From that moment, Ikpeme was determined to bring the game to life. Nouns Hunt won Best Mobile Game at the Ark Pitch, organized by Africacomicade in October 2023. Ikpeme recalls, “We pitched the game to the sponsors and received great feedback. Reflecting on Africacomicade’s community impact, he says, “It’s been amazing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. All in all, Ilkka’s yearly blog is an inspirational and quite sincere vision of the top brass of a major mobile games company.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Those games are trying to acquire users through free mints, taking a page out of the F2P playbook. However, if blockchain games want to be relevant in a scale that matters, they need to take the front page out of that book: existing in mobile devices. Of course, it’s hard to predict the topic or theme of those local optimals.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

GitHub - axmolengine/axmol: Axmol Engine – A Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games. (A axmol is just a fork of cocos2d-x-4.0: A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0) release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0) fmtlib: 10.0.0 ==> 10.1.0 FreeType: 2.13.0 ==> 2.13.2 llhttp: 8.1.1 ==> 9.0.1

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2024

Changes in the Gaming Industry Over the Last 10 Years For a long time, the gaming industry was a close-knit community where everyone knew everyone, especially within specific regions. Whether it was London or Helsinki, local networks were sufficient for finding talent.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

CASHING OUT: The actual Stars balance a game publisher earns can be reinvested in ads promoting the app , which in theory cuts out a lot of the “middle man” costs necessary for a publisher to pay in standard mobile gaming. The game will usually express the price in the in-app store in local currency (USD, Euros, etc.),

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The mobile game industry is challenging at the same time it is the most rewarding industry that has abundant opportunities for the developers. Many of the game development companies have made incredible games, however, there are few games that haven’t made it in the market. .

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Game Infrastructure : Amazon GameLift*, Multiplayer Session-based Game Hosting*, GameLift Testing Toolkit on AWS*. Live Operations solutions help developers manage their backend infrastructure so they can focus on providing players with a high-quality game experience. AWS for Games Solutions. AWS for Games Solutions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Fix locale parsing on Mac OS and fallback to global language if country-specific one is not provided. The illustration image ( full size ) is a screenshot from the 3D mobile game Marble Machine by Kivano, one of the nice indie studios gravitating in our community (and contributing to the engine development too!).

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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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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 9, 2023

This tool helps quality assurance (QA) teams find and localize game errors and bugs. This capability is crucial in the world of cloud and cross-platform gaming. Appium’s flexibility and ability to interact with mobile, web, hybrid, and native applications make it a popular game test automation tool.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 29, 2022

Many of you know how to develop a game and are experienced in running live operations. However, only a few truly know how to launch a modern mobile game. In the rapidly evolving games market, best practices on how to successfully launch your game can change just as fast.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

While it’s fun and entertaining to follow Epic’s crusade on Apple, I think it’s equally important to discuss how these court battles impact tens of thousands of game developers around the World. Meanwhile, we all get to sit back and benefit from being able to more effectively monetize our games and connect more deeply with our players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Cookie Run is has some imporessive traction in the Western markets, which may potentially turn this game into a proper worldwide hit. The card-battling RPG genre was one of the first in mobile games that enjoyed success at scale and popularity around the world.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. In the game, you run your own farm, create your own products, and sell to the local community through your own small business. And we don’t see this often enough in games. So it was a no-brainer why this title made our roundup.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

As the mobile market grew, Supercell grew faster and was able to ship one billion dollar game after another with tiny teams. Top-grossing mobile games are ever-bigger with constantly improving production values and unrivaled live services making the games feel fresh every day. Helsinki Here’s a caveat though.

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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. Each have leveraged their core competitive advantage to own their audience.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Niantic’s AR-based mobile game took the world by storm and broke numerous world records , including the most revenue grossed by a mobile game in its first month ($206.5m). The franchise also built on that large user base through local multiplayer, which brought all the fans together to become a cultural phenomenon.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We're talking about massive layoffs across the tech industry and gaming in particular, new mobile game studios from NetEase and Nintendo, Playtika's latest earnings report, the dramatic and sudden collapse of FTX and the ongoing creator royalty debate going on in the world of NFTs. ? million despite lowest quarter since 2020 ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 21, 2022

You also need your marketing team to be laser-focused on improving the marketability of the game which includes identifying the characteristics of your most valuable players and finding more players just like them. Connect with your local Google team and visit the Firebase website to learn how Firebase can unlock growth for your games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

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. If they tell you they will gladly publish your game, don't believe them! Subsidies : Check with your local government. so, you just make it and publish it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

Prior to Knock Knock, Andrew was Head of Business Operations at TinyCo where he built, launched, and operated games like Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, MARVEL Avengers Academy, and Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. Beyond study and instrumentation, there is instinct.” - Annorax* Creating a new F2P mobile game is riskier than it’s ever been.

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