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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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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Game Refinery

MARCH 16, 2023

From national calendar days to religious holidays, seasonal events are a great way for mobile games to find new and exciting ways to drive player engagement. We’ve updated the blog post with new seasonal event implementation examples and best practices for introducing seasonal events into your mobile game.

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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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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Only 15% of casual puzzle games in the US top grossing 200 have implemented it, despite it proving reasonably effective at boosting performance in several level-based puzzle games. With that in mind, are mobile game studios missing out on an important opportunity here to boost engagement?

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Vibrating controller What followed was a series of visits to a neighbourhood gaming arcade to play games on the PlayStation. He fell in love with driving games like C3 Racing, Forza, Turismo, and Project Scars. He kept going to gaming arcades, using the coins he saved from lunch and transport money.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delabs partners with Web3 community platform Delabs, the Web3-focused arm of South Korean game development company 4:33 Creative Lab, announced a new partnership with Web3 community platform Galxe, for its Rumble Racing Star, previously featured in GameDaily. The game’s open beta test is set for this month.

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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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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Instead, I want to explore the role of a gaming CMO in setting teams up for success and the risk that some leaders may actually be incentivising a race to the bottom. Gaming UA teams are primarily, if not entirely, focused on optimization.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets. Sports & Racing Games in 2021. In 2021 Sports category on mobile hit the wall.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The longer they’re in your game, the more revenue you make. Unlike with mobile games, none of these ads disrupt the gameplay. But instead, we’re seeing ads on billboards and signs in the games – like real ones you would see in the street. We see this a lot in mobile games. Offer daily challenges and rewards.

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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

JULY 15, 2024

Whether it's expanding their brand's reach, targeting specific audiences, or exploring new platforms like mobile gaming, understanding these motivations can inform and elevate your pitch. To stand out, it's crucial to highlight your game's creative point of difference.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 8, 2024

The unreliability of pre-registration numbers, the overestimation of brand equity, and the waning influence of first-party featuring are soon becoming recurring themes in mobile gaming; Squad Busters' launch throws these challenges into the spotlight. It’s particularly a poor showing of Supercell’s IP. etc) is puzzling.

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Game Refinery

JULY 27, 2022

Last year, the company distributed an exclusive rainbow-colored car to players in CSR2 Racing to commemorate the event. Every year more and more games participate in Pride celebrations in their own way. Cosmetics play a big part in how mobile games approach the event, and it can be a fun way to let players showcase their identity.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 22, 2024

Here’s everything you need to know about using the Live Events Tracker to get the analysis you need to build the best live events framework for your mobile games, no matter what genres you operate in. Alternatively, you can use it to introduce new features that appeal to wider motivations to attract new players.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Now she builds strategy for and sources leading-edge content for Oculus, lectures on the intersection of art and code for UCSC in Games and Playable Media, wrangles a monthly column on science-fiction in videogames over at Amazing Stories and writes about how all these app-driven superpowers are going to change the human race.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Verdict: CORRECT (1 Point) #3 Paid UA Becomes a Break-Even Game Advertising is a commodity and in a race to the bottom. Instead of killing a project they make it an Apple Arcade game and move the team to work on something else as Arcade games don’t require post-launch work.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2023

Written by Tiffany Keller , who is a Director of Product and investor with a decade of experience in mobile games across Scopely, Activision Blizzard, Miniclip, and Zynga. It’s only a matter of time before mobile competitors go cross-platform and via cross-promoting their top mobile players threaten Fall Guys’ console dominance.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

We use them to achieve the highest level of photorealism in video games. Cross-platform Mobile Game Development From casual games to action-packed RPGs, our Unreal developers are experts at creating cross-platform game apps, with proficiency in video game mechanics , responsive UI features, stunning designs, and user engagement features.

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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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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. kuFor the Monopoly collab, players sprinted past GO on a map inspired by the classic board game. Their secret to success? Mastering the art of LiveOps.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

But for the vast majority of mobile games, this approach will not work. Premium titles stretch mechanics throughout the game to keep players engaged after even 10, 20, or 100 hours of gameplay. Or it's quite common to refer to competitors where the introduction of mechanics is spread evenly over the first few sessions.

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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. 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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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Nancy is the Head of User Acquisition and Growth Strategy at East Side Games , a publisher known for IP-driven hit games such as “The Office,” “Trailer Park Boys,” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Ludovic is an International Growth Consultant at Google who advises mobile gaming clients on their international expansion strategies.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Rovio has one of the most famous mobile gaming IPs on the planet, Angry Birds. Angry Birds is the OG mobile game franchise that proved how big the market could be. In a post-ATT world, having such a recognizable, world-class franchise in-house is incredibly valuable.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

GoPractice is a tool I would have loved to have at the beginning of my product management career and it’s a tool that I love having now, a decade into making and operating free-to-play games. GoPractice is also highly recommended by some of the top mobile games companies, which is how I originally got connected with Oleg.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Mobile gaming market is close to what an economist would call a perfectly competitive market (except for some categories such card and fighting games - looking at you, Herthstone and Contest of Champions). The publisher/developer usually base their launch decision on a hypothesis of the scalability of user acquisition.

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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. No download or install or pesky permissions necessary.

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Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In this infinite runner mobile game, players are always given three “missions” which encourage them to play the game in an unusual way (“Have a near miss with a missile” or “Rub your head against the roof for 500 meters”), which is a surprisingly effective way to change the feel of a game that one might play over and over again hundreds of times.

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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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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

JANUARY 14, 2020

The big three of the genre are Wordscapes, New YAHTZEE With Buddies and Board Kings, racing neck-to-neck for #1 spot and leaving everyone else far below the top 3 in revenues. Handful of new games did see some minor success below the top, and all of these were either titles utilizing known IP (Mattel’s UNO!

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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. As the mobile market grew, Supercell grew faster and was able to ship one billion dollar game after another with tiny teams. This means that the teams behind these games are bigger.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

You can check out one of our past newsletter articles (read: A race to the bottom on creator royalties? There is a huge value misalignment within the blockchain games industry. Then they could sell those NFTs with a much higher price compared to its starting point and move on to the next project. discussing it in more detail.

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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.

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