AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Green Light: Unleashing Squid Game on Amazon GameLift 11:30am to 12:00pm | Room WH2011 With the release of Squid Game Season 2, Netflix created a companion game that takes place in the universe and allows players to play in games inspired by the show.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

The mobile gaming industry has exploded recently. Developers are constantly seeking the best tools to create engaging, high-performance games that can run smoothly on a wide range of Android devices. Two of the most popular game enginesUnity and Unreal are the top choices for Android game development.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. Another demonstration will allow lounge visitors to play video games streamed from Amazon Luna while learning about the studios and services involved in the development process.

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Mnenad

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This is the story of the mobile game Countryball Potato Mayhem - my first ever published, solo indie game. Let's see how it all started as a whacky prototype and if it became a great success or an epic failure.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2024

I lean heavily on text for as long as possible, postponing prototyping until it’s absolutely necessary. The key was that I wanted a game like Fallout Shelter meets Anno with some crafting chains to have more to do than what a mobile game could offer.” From there, it’s all about iteration. This is a tricky question.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

With their short cycles and simple gameplay, crafting a hyper-casual title means you can learn important skills across game design and monetisation, which you’ll need for success in the mobile games industry. But how do you get started building a hyper-casual game? Prototyping, testing and analytics.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Dive in to explore the madness that goes into creating games that play beautifully. It’s the IDEA that makes games successful: The whole presence of the game revolves around that idea that makes the foundation of a mobile game development process.

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

As exhibited by this research with Analytics Edge, gaming advertisers relying solely on attribution for decision-making are increasingly leaving money on the table. A combination of Creative Prototyping with a robust Creative Success Framework could unlock opportunities to do just that Do your teams have the right objectives?

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 1, 2018

But besides a few mobile games to waste some time, I didn't really play anything else. I hear from friends about all the games they played and I wonder "where do you find all the time?" Start working on a game. To be clear, my goal in 2018 is to start working on a game that will eventually ship.

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Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 31, 2017

But besides a few mobile games to waste some time, I didn’t really play anything else. I hear from friends about all the games they played and I wonder “where do you find all the time?” Start working on a game To be clear, my goal in 2018 is to start working on a game that will eventually ship.

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

This time we’ll unveil the most common reasons why studios choose Unity for creating a game for Android in 2023. Keep on reading and find out what it takes to build a highly-rated mobile game by using the Unity engine and what you should be ready to go through. Is Unity Good for Mobile Games?

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Mobile games are currently at the peak of their popularity. They continue to attract diverse audiences all over the globe, and game developers, for their part, continue offering unique and thrilling titles to suit any taste. . Game development companies catch the wave and try to please picky gamers with compelling mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2024

Here are some impressive stats: Voodoo maintains an average of roughly 100 prototypes in progress at all times, reflecting a massive stream of game development ideas. They test around 1,000 prototypes each year, demonstrating their dedication to exploring a wide array of concepts. The death of hypercasual — what happened?

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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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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small.

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Game Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In particular, the playbook Creative Prototyping and the Creative Success Framework are curated to help strategically test what works for your audience, and to gather a clear understanding of what “good” creative means. 1 Meta-commissioned survey of 505 games marketers across the US, UK, DE, KR, CH by MTM, February 2022.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is the author of the book Freemium Economics and the founder of Mobile Dev Memo , the ultimate growth blog and podcast. It is tempting for mobile games marketing teams to think of 2021 as being dominated by Apple’s impending new privacy policy for iOS, App Tracking Transparency (ATT). Access all of our previous predictions.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

From that moment, Ikpeme was determined to bring the game to life. With the help of a graphic designer, the team built their first prototype in just three months. Nouns Hunt won Best Mobile Game at the Ark Pitch, organized by Africacomicade in October 2023. It was simple yet powerful, and it stuck.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Our goal is to create games that resonate with people worldwide, regardless of age or gender, with non-verbal gameplay. However, the United States stands out as the largest market, accounting for 30-40% of total revenue, so we always start prototype testing there.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Starting over, is the game commercially viable? Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? After a good idea, the most natural action is to prototype it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And seems it provides a solid ground to start hiring the rest of the team, while they start prototyping their ideas. It’s well-documented that the R&D process at Riot involves prototyping with small teams , which in turn could resemble the famous (Super) cell structure. And past experience in entrepreneurship.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

While still in the early stages, it offers promising rapid prototyping and brainstorming potential. Visual Scripting And No-Code Solutions Bolt for Unity: This visual scripting editor within the Unity game engine allows you to build game logic without writing code.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

The flexibility to use popular programming languages such as C++, C#, or Python allows developers to customize and fine-tune every aspect of the game. When you choose a mobile game development company that designs game software that encourages coding customization and empowers developers to create unique and groundbreaking gaming experiences.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

While these are not directly gaming-related news, both Meta and FTX were significant players in the gaming ecosystem. Meta’s venture into the metaverse coincided with Apple’s privacy changes and resulted in the loss of the platform as the number one ad channel for mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Everything looks tiny when compared with one of the biggest mobile games in history. It follows a worrying trendline of Supercell’s subsequent games having ever weaker monetization at launch. The graveyard was filled with killed prototypes and games that were killed in the soft launch phase. Down But Not Out!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

For example, under a hybrid regime, it might make sense to be together for 1-2 full weeks for road mapping, brainstorming, prototyping, or unsticking a team from a tough problem. In other words, even within the same company, there are different areas of work that require higher or lower touch or interaction.

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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. Additionally, UE is good for prototyping. The game engine is open-source. What Are The Pros Of The Unity Game Engine? Unity also enables quick prototyping.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Source: Mobile Gaming Industry Analysis for H1 2019. Archero had a soft-launch period of 2-3 months, and probably the same amount of time before that for prototyping and design iteration. billion users in the IronSource network over two years, of which 660 million play hypercasual games.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Hence, themed victory conditions were out for Old World , but we needed something in place, especially since we were playing MP within a few months of early prototyping. A set of varied goals is now standard practice in mobile gaming, and if it can work for a game played with a thumb, it can also work for a 4X game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The only true bright spot was Art of War , which despite prototype level production quality has scaled up to over 5M in net revenue a month with no stop in sight! As the mobile market grew, Supercell grew faster and was able to ship one billion dollar game after another with tiny teams. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Software used by professional game designers: Unreal Engine/Unity Blueprint/C# Microsoft or Google Office software for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations Art software (e.g., Game design jobs in the industry Game designers are required for all types of video games—from console to online to mobile.

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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. Star Wars Battlefront 2 never added Battle Royale, although rumours have spread this year that it was prototyped at DICE.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Travis Boatman : Travis has held senior leadership positions at a bunch of major gaming and mobile gaming companies including Mattel, JAMDAT, EA, and Zynga. a mobile and PC games studio located in Southern California. And they will soon launch their new mobile shooter called Catalyst's Black.

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