PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2024

The AppMagic Hypercasual games recap for the second quarter of 2024 unveils some interesting information about this specific part of the mobile games market. The hypercasual games market has been on a downwards trajectory for a couple of years now, but there is still potential for success.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

They say imitation is a form of flattery, and there’s no shortage of mobile games that share a striking similarity with other popular titles in the PC, console and mobile markets. Players race, jump and dash through three rounds of obstacle courses (maps). In total, Stumble Guys raked in over 219 million downloads.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite being the smallest category by revenue share on mobile, 2020 was a very good year for Sports & Racing as it breached the billion-dollar mark , with combined revenue of $1.2B Sports saw YoY growth of +29% ($880M) , while Racing registered +23% YoY ($331M). Games that have a huge fan base.

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

Millions of mobile games are out there battling for engagement, yet only a few titles manage to fight their way to the top. Stumble Guys uses IP in live events to introduce new gameplay mechanics Stumble Guys x Nerf Over on the casual Market, Stumble Guys fumbled home with the other Best Collaboration Event Award.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Avalon has found investment backing from the likes of Bitkraft, Delphi Ventures, and Mechanism Capital raising $13 million in a round announced earlier this year. The game’s open beta test is set for this month. .” Metaverse environments Based in Orlando, Florida, but mainly built on a remote working model.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Events with different mechanics sometimes complement each other, but at other times they divert players' attention, resulting in reduced activity and monetization. We had a case with an event based on merge mechanics. They just liked the mechanics and continued playing until the event had ended. Try different combos, too.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

In a recent podcast featuring Lexi Sydow , Director of Corporate Marketing and Insights at Sensor Tower, several key insights were shared about the current state and future of mobile gaming, mobile marketing, and the dynamic between apps and games. Sources: Sensor Tower State of Gaming 2024 Data.ai

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

It contains the game’s proposed design like the concept of the game, genre, core game mechanics, gameplay, timeline, illustrations/sketches, story and characters, levels and monetization strategies. This decides whether the game is worth pursuing or not. GDD is updated regularly.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article in our prediction series will cover the Sports & Racing category. It is made up of four sub-genres - Realistic Sports ( such as MADDEN, FIFA, 8 Ball Poll ), Arcade Sports ( such as Golf Clash, Fishing Clash ), Realistic Racing ( such as CSR ), Arcade Racing ( such as Mario Kart ).

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Whether you’re a casual gamer looking for some entertainment or a dedicated hardcore game enthusiast, today, we have curated a list of the best high-graphics games for Android just for you. Let’s explore the Top 10 Mobile Game Development without wasting your precious time! So, are you excited to take a look?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

You may also come across a game via a sponsored/influenced post on X or Discord. Tap the button and you’re off to the races! Each app can send 30 free messages per second — but by paying Stars, larger scale games can send up to 1,000 messages per second. Source : [link] Can Telegram games find a sustainable way to grow?

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 15, 2023

The game can be defined as a male-focused match-3 with car restoration and customization as the theme. You join a crew of car mechanics to fix customers' cars, solve match-3 puzzles, and progress through the story. So, they are targeting a supposedly blue spot in what can be described as the reddest ocean in mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

While Hypercasual games account for less than 1% of the total IAP revenue of all Casual games, it drove well over half of all downloads for the category during 2019. In fact, Hypercasual games alone made up for ~45% of 2019’s total download volume across all mobile games. Nothing new really.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Without them, a 4X game suddenly becomes an aimless simulation where the players set their own goals. Simulations can be great games, but they tend not to be a good format for turn-based games with transparent game mechanics. Thus, Paradox grand strategy games follow this model.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

“Other Match-3” is also home to string-matching games - such King’s Diamond Diaries Saga. The biggest string-matching game by far is Best Fiends, which is categorized as a Puzzle RPG due to its progression mechanic. In 2020, we predict that in Merge games: More merge games will continue to hit the market.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’m reminded a bit of those mobile games where the first 10 minutes is like this absolutely incredible looking and sounding thing, and then you’re sort of “dropped off” into the same old 2015 gacha clone looking thing. You can date in this game, but only women, because Adachi is a man. That would be bad.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. Yet this playbook hasn’t worked in several years now.

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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. In this article, you can take a quick look at some of the highly-rated and compelling games created with Unity.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2023

State of the Mobile Games Market The Western mobile games market , which we broadly analyze by removing the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets from the numbers, saw overall installs climb by 14% to 47.5B And unlike Racing, Shooter games also generally saw a decline in downloads as well.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Long and Winding Road to COD: Mobile’s Launch To tell the story of Call of Duty Mobile, you have to start all the way back in 2008. At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. The title (known as Arena of Valor in the west) grossed over $1.9

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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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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Some people may be familiar with my past work : uncanny CG beefcake sex games that toy with hardcore gamer aesthetics, which only run on laptop / desktop computers. For the longest time, I've wanted to make a gay mobile game, but I was unsure how to get my queer politics past Apple and Google's anti-sexuality censors.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is a guest post by Vinayak Sathyamoorthy , Group Product Manager at Reddit, an ex-Zynga Product Manager and an avid mobile gamer. Leave it another Finnish team to build some truly innovative gameplay mechanics in their action strategy title, Battle Legion. it can make W2E feel very rewarding.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

. >> see our gaming market predictions As we enter 2025, the digital advertising and mobile gaming industries are transforming remarkably. As always, there are winners and losers, and within mobile gaming, certain genres stand out as clear frontrunners.

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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. One of the surest ways to do it is letting them pay via fiat currency, a.k.a,

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