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). The sports category is divided into two genres: Sports and Racing.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s the debut game of Turkish studio Gorilla Softworks. “We We consulted two anthropologists while building our technology and culture trees to reflect the prehistoric cultural and technological progress of the human race”, he says.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

However, I predict that the widespread adoption of AI tools will enable studios of all sizes to significantly lower their production costs. Studios and marketers that embrace AI tools will have the agility to outperform their competitors, benefiting from the immense speed, variety, and cost-efficiency that AI-generated content provides.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 24, 2023

Through their data, Happy Volcano realized that people were far more likely to drop off if they didn’t play through some of the single-player races before hopping over to multiplayer. “It As a player, it’s frustrating to join a multiplayer race and get absolutely thrashed immediately. You just end up leaving.

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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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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. Prototype: The prototype is a raw test that checks the functionality of the game, environments, gameplay, mechanics, user experience, etc.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. I do sometimes have ‘flashes’ -or dreams- of cool ideas like a gameplay mechanic, other times a whole story or environment. Even if you work on successful studio games that have good profit, you can still find yourself without a job.

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

That’s why, for this year’s Mobile GameDev Awards, we’ve been celebrating the achievements of the mobile market’s live event champions, looking at the most innovative ways leading studios have kept players invested in their pocket-sized interactive worlds. What can other developers learn from these battle passes?

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Unicorn Run also introduces flying powers and shooting mechanics to help you achieve higher scores, adding an extra layer of excitement to the gameplay. Developed by Bethesda Game Studios, it was initially met with mixed reviews during its early access phase but later garnered attention and commercial success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Guest post by David Fox , founder of Double Coconut — a design and development studio that has delivered hit mobile and web games for partners such as EA Sports, WB Games, Microsoft Casual Games, and more. Tap the button and you’re off to the races! You may also come across a game via a sponsored/influenced post on X or Discord.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 1, 2024

King, when they ruled the casual puzzle space, chose to expand the breadth of their casual portfolio: Bubble Witch Saga (bubble shooter), Pet Rescue Saga (collapse/blast), Diamond Digger Saga (digging/water flow mechanic), Blossom Blast Saga (linker), Pyramid Solitaire , etc. Expanding further back makes it a bit easier to see the tea leaves.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

As the developer behind popular video game franchise “Super Mega Baseball,” the studio has taken each installment to new heights, growing its own capabilities and talent base in tandem. We’re also looking at the multiplayer experience for our online competitive mode: pennant race. Metalhead knows a thing or two about big swings.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

The biggest growth was seen by GameJam and Supersonic Studios , though both entered 2020 with very modest installs compared to the established players. Crazy Labs, Supersonic Studios and Game Jam were the other super stars of 2020. Supersonic Studios’ success is straightforward to explain. Nothing new really. XOXOX AppLovin.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It helps ensure everyone understands the game’s testing objectives, goals, and mechanics. These genres may include platformers, action-adventure, racing titles, and role-playing games. Regularly check these studios’ career sections to identify and apply for potential testing job opportunities.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In the film, through insert shots of a wristwatch dial and a mechanical alarm clock, the main interest of the Zemeckis' cinematography - time - appears for the first time. They try to race against time to get the coveted tickets before the show begins.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. The studio then switched to developing content for mobile and created a pair of exclusive titles for China’s WeChat social platform in 2013. TiMi’s port of PUBG was called PUBG: Army Attack.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 15, 2023

You join a crew of car mechanics to fix customers' cars, solve match-3 puzzles, and progress through the story. Defining your own niche Although the mobile games market is a bloodbath with numerous games being canceled and studios shutting down, match-3 still seems appealing for teams developing new games.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 12, 2022

We apply the method with SuperTuxKart , an open-source, C++ based kart racing game and provide a configuration example. Game studios who are looking at reducing their hosting spend can use a combination of observability and node provisioning mechanisms to maintain the right amount of compute resources at any time on Kubernetes.

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Game Daily

MARCH 21, 2023

A former senior executive at Activision Blizzard, last week she announced the formation of a new studio, called Magic Soup, that plans to make “genuinely uplifting and inclusive” triple-A games. Oneal is particularly interesting. ” This kind of change is a long and hard road.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

AppLovin, the US-based ad network turned publisher , which came clear about their investment into Firecraft Studios, acquired Belka. Both Firecraft Studios and Playrix borrowed freely from each other whether it came to core gameplay, theme, art style, store creatives, icons or video creatives.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. Say it with us, y'all: HALLE-FRICKIN'-LUJAH!

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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. The only examples of F2P shooters at scale were Korean (Crossfire) and Chinese (Assault Fire/Ni-Zhan), both focused on pay-to-win mechanics.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

Sometimes I think studios invest a ton of time and money, and maybe even different writers, into the opening parts of games to kind of get you excited to play, and probably to have some extremely high quality stuff to use in marketing. He can save the world or he can just spend all his time doing kart racing. That would be bad.

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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. Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. The game puts players in charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. But is there an ultimate winner?

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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. This option is highly unlikely.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2019

Many of the new games that are gaining ground are coming from developers like Lilith , Firecraft Studios (Matchington Mansion), FunPlus (King of Avalon, Guns of Glory) and IGG (Lords Mobile). Idle (PvE) — the Appointment Mechanic This is the automated (idle) portion of the game. During the past year Lilith has been on a roll!

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