PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Whether you are developing for high-end PCs, consoles, or mobile devices, these methods are critical for delivering visually rich, smooth-running applications. Managing memory bandwidth On mobile devices, GPU performance is often limited by memory bandwidth, which impacts both energy consumption and thermal performance.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

Harmony Games, a mobile game studio founded in 2023, considered two possible paths for solving the backend problem. With a beta launch of its first game “Domino Adventures” (a casual mobile game in the connect tiles space, with an RPG twist) just months away, Harmony also needed a solution that could be implemented quickly.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Market Growth Defies Stagnation While some predict a slowdown in mobile gaming, the numbers tell a different story. Contrary to these expectations, mobile gaming is still expanding, driven by a mix of fresh ideas and a steady influx of new players. Here’s a snapshot of the notable shifts in the industry right now.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

The implementation within the mobile renderer was merged into master while support for the clustered rendering is functional but has a number of loose ends to tie up and can currently be evaluated through this draft PR. Further Mobile renderer improvements in Godot 4. This means that the render buffer is divided into smaller tiles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 24, 2025

Written by Marion Balinoff , an influencer marketing consultant with over a decade of experience, including six years in mobile gaming. This could be a custom character, skin, weapon, decoration item, word tile, or even an entire challenge. But one of the most impactful means to drive conversions is using custom in-game assets.

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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. QoQ); Bridge Race (–4% QoQ); Magic Tiles 3 (–12% QoQ); and Build A Queen (–20% QoQ). Now, let’s turn to the newbies at the top.

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2d Game Art Guru

APRIL 5, 2023

Create and work with textures from photos taken with your mobile phone. Frequently used in the art for games, tiles such as the stone wall need to match seamlessly to the next tile in all four directions, while being flexible enough to create variations and transitions to other tiles. older tutorials ].

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Catnip Games

JUNE 20, 2023

This gives me freedom in level design and saves work making tiles… tileable. Everything is just one big texture. Interactive elements will be placed using the in-game editor.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

A lot of people asked about making 2D maps and how to use different types of tiles like water vs dirt. For this lesson I created a couple of simple images to use for tile maps. This asset will be sort of abstract data, and can be “skinned” with specific tiles at a later point. They are available in this package here.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 6, 2024

Different creatures can be different sizes, and accordingly may occupy different numbers of tiles, or be able to reach different tiles (such as for attacking). At the top of the class I added a "tileSize" const that is set to 5 and represents the number of "feet" a tile on the game board spans.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

TileMap editor: Bucket tool - allow deleting and replacing of tiles. TileMap editor: Display fixes and enhancements on the tile palette. TileMap editor: Display current tile coordinates under the pointer. Show object StringName instead of object ID in the debugger. Various buildsystem improvements for Android, Windows, etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the latest episode of the DoF Podcast, Mishka reconnects with Rina Onur Sirinoglu, CEO of Spyke Games, to talk about her exciting new mobile gaming venture, which recently secured a $55 million seed round. Together with Mishka, they discuss the highs and lows of Spyke Games, shining a spotlight on their latest sensation, Tile Busters.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

What's surprising is that the game is also accessible on PC, even though it was designed primarily for mobile. Location Tiles As a reminder, winning a game in Marvel Snap requires capturing two out of the three location tiles. This means that the tile will show up 40% more often in games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Auto-tiling in tile maps. For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow. Godot will pick the right compression for textures when importing for mobile, and supply them over the network. Auto-tiling in tile maps. Bullet Physics backend. New networked multiplayer API.

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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

To take an extreme example, there are obviously different considerations when developing for mobile vs desktop, and the results of the different decisions made to optimize a design for the target platform is also why ports between various platforms don’t always come out the same, whether technically or in terms of feel. .”

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 2, 2022

For instance, unlike a banking app where high monthly usage can be the aim, mobile games often require high daily usage to be successful. This is why it’s typically a top priority for mobile game developers to increase DAU as much as feasible. It helps you know the number of users who spend at least a session on your game per day.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Find character sprites, environment tiles, UI elements, sound effects, and music tracks, all contributed by artists and musicians within the game development community. Most mobile game development companies use this tool to make their work effortless.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 14, 2020

Puzzle genre is the second largest, after strategy games, on mobile in terms of in-app purchases. Tile Blast games, defined largely by Peak Games, continued smooth sailing. Peak is stable and controls its sub-genre of tile blasting. Western casual games category broken down into genres and sub-genres.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This type of level designing involves procedural generation where reusable tiles (including power-ups, obstacles, and aesthetic features) are randomly assembled. The first Temple Run game was a huge hit among mobile gamers and has been downloaded more than 1 billion times! Level Design ER games have just one level that never ends.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

2023 turned out to be no less challenging for the mobile market than the year before. Methodology The report mainly focuses on the performance of the mobile games market in Tier-1 West countries, which include the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, France and Germany. This article is written by Alexandra Doroshenko from AppMagic.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You decided how much time you'd spend swapping tiles or tending to your flowerbeds. T his kind of approach would be fairly outdated in the modern mobile game market. Just like other mobile games on the market, it is experimenting by combining different core loops rather than fabricating entirely new genres and settings.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

These are generally games that need to process game logic on dozens of thousands of objects, where data-oriented optimizations become a must, as the amount of pages moved into CPU cache increases by several orders of magnitude, severely affecting performance (and battery usage on mobile devices). Using Compute.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). a lot of work is also being done on the 3.2

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It is no secret that puzzle games dominate a significant share of the mobile gaming market. While Match-3 remains the dominant force in this competition, we've seen other subgenres like Merge taking the second place, while others, like Tile Match, showed potential but ultimately fell short.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Written by Jesper Gustavsson , Director of Product at SYBO Games and a games industry veteran with 10 years of experience in building and operating mobile games as a product manager. In 2012, Microfun transitioned into the mobile gaming industry with the release of “Super Model” (an RPG fashion game).

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Township has been on mobile platforms since 2013 and generated around a Billion Dollars in life-time revenues. Playrix - True Behemoth of Casual Mobile Games Founded in 2004, Playrix entered the industry by making premium Match-3 and Hidden Object games. These tools are: Pickaxes: Destroys 1 tile and makes adjacent tiles visible.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Most mobile gaming companies bet on incremental innovation as their gateway to success. Instead, we think that Clans would have declined even without Clash Royale (albeit at a slower rate) due to the “law of gravity” that all mobile games face after launch and, therefore, that Clash Royale was net positive. Cover image: Talouselämä. #1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

seen as small bumps between tiles on a GridMap). The current version doesn't have a lot of mobile specific changes, so it's only really usable on a tablet with keyboard and mouse - but the foundation is there to improve upon, and we're interested in your feedback and ideas son how to make the Godot experience more mobile friendly!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Currently, mobile and web platforms are not available, with support likely coming in Godot 4.1. Probably the biggest improvement relying on that is the new Tiles editor, which has been reimagined based on your requests and reports. You can probably build half a game with tiles alone! GDExtension.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The mobile hit Empires and Puzzles (E&P) by Small Giant Games (acquired by Zynga) has made over $600M in net-revenues while racking up around 60 million installs. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile. Gates, which are an ultimate obstacle covering the whole battlefield from tile damage. Growing twice as fast as the whole RPG genre.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Early this year the Turkish mobile startup Dream Games has raised $50 million in new funding ($57.5M Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. total funding), despite having only soft-launched its first game, Royal Match. It made $5.1

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 20, 2019

The $3Bn Match & Blast Category Match & Blast games is the biggest sub-category on mobile with $3Bn in net revenues in 2018 and a year-on-year growth of revenues at whopping 28%. Nick Earl, Glu Mobile Inc (GLUU) Q1 2019 Earnings Call Transcript. This sub-category has traditionally been dominated by King.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you’re interested in growing your business on mobile and beyond, look no further. Xsolla has dedicated tools that will help you create your own online commerce platform, improve your performance marketing and discoverability, and expand your game business on mobile and PC. This post is sponsored by Xsolla.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. 2020 was a very good year for mobile games. Puzzle Games in 2020 Puzzle, out of all of the genres and mobile, is the largest one when looking at IAPs only. This increase, sliced by subgenre, was driven mostly by Tile Blast and Puzzle & Decorate. It made $5.1

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. Here was my thought process: Unity WebGL: way too heavy and slow for mobile browsers, and maybe overkill for a no-physics 2D game anyway. Warning: this is a fairly technical game developer-y post.

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