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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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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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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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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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

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

MARCH 8, 2024

Top image: four of KAYAK’s hypercasual games. There has been a lot of talk about the future of Hypercasual games: how the market has been in stagnation, making studios slowly but steadily look for opportunities in the fraternal Hybridcasual. Let’s take a look at their games portfolio and performance.

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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. The post Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

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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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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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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

JULY 11, 2023

Most of us have been in games for a long time and are now working remotely “A lot of places have room to do better. But I have landed and stuck at my current studio, which handled it the best because they make room for us to navigate what works best for us and provide real support through the challenges to get us to a positive outcome.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Whenever we write critical posts about a game, the team seems to fire up to “prove Deconstructor of Fun wrong!” It’s well-known that our analysis of Call of Duty Mobile was printed on the wall of the studio to motivate the team to beat our early predictions. It’s not frankly that rare. Down But Not Out!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The most notable move being the opening of a Berlin studio that is categorically focussed on “casual” games, with key hires coming in from Blizzard, King, Rovio and the likes. More recently, and while writing this post, Voodoo also announced a new Montreal studio that wants to build games “beyond hypercasual”.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

The immersive worlds game developers craft will get players hooked and keep them coming back for more. 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 engine is open-source.

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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. They get to a prototype level. Some of them also have 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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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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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. Built by Tencent’s Timi studio with decades of creating cosmetic economies (QQ Speed, Legend of the Dragon, Honor of Kings).

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Software used by professional 3D animators: Maya 3D Studio Max After Effects MotionBuilder Mudbox Premier Cinema 4D LightWave Real-time engine (such as Unreal or Unity) 3D animation jobs in the industry 3D animators can work on live-action projects (VFX), fully animated projects, virtual production, and video games (all platforms).

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Supercell announced over a year ago that they will be opening a studio in North America. TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? We want to build ambitious games players may not expect from Supercell. In Today’s Email ? ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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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. Hypercasual games alone are estimated to generate $3.4B

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Thus a full breakdown of the newly released game is warranted. Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. This article was written by Laura Taranto , an experienced product management leader.

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