Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

Casino, Puzzle (Casual), and Strategy games are flourishing, with blockbuster titles like Monopoly Go and Royal Match driving incredible success. Some of the leading platforms include: Midjourney: For high-quality visual content. Poolday.ai and Creatify: For video-based ads featuring AI-generated actors.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

In terms of revenue, the genres that took the most damage were: #1 Racing (revenue -28%, downloads +8%) The genre was down early a third down due to a decline across all titles. And unlike Racing, Shooter games also generally saw a decline in downloads as well. while the net revenues declined by 11% to $38.2B.

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Game Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

And because people are able to publish their own games on our platform – a bit like Roblox or Fortnite Creative – we’ll see the kinds of innovations that make traditional publishers nervous. We think we have a great authoring environment, but also a distribution platform that’s fast and easy.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

This puzzle game provides grids of small shapes of different colors. Focusing on improving the original Doom, the Ultimate Doom picks up with demons continuing to ravage the world, and the fight to save the human race continues on. This sequel sees players taking on the role of a ruler over one of 13 races. The Ultimate Doom.

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Game Global

JUNE 28, 2021

The wide selection of video game genres means that translators won’t be stuck on high-fantasy language or racing games for the rest of their careers but might also need to learn about cooking, board games, politics, astrophysics (okay, maybe I am exaggerating), and so on. So wear that top hat and be prepared to solve some puzzles!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. Though the growth is different than we imagined.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Oleg has built his data driven product management expertise working on some of the biggest games as well as some of the biggest social platforms in the World. In hindsight, we should have used the Geeklab platform or any other similar tool to test the market’s interest for the product we wanted to build. I doubt it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 4, 2020

I should pause and give some context about myself: I have written for DoF a couple of times in the past, but it has been two years since I left Zynga’s Social Casino division and continued product management in social platforms. If you choose to employ a different strategy, you completely re-organize your team and your units.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 8, 2024

This decision remains puzzling, as there was no pressure to launch Squad Busters. Squad Busters is a disciplined reminder of the importance of soft launching and a reality check on the strength of platforms and mobile-first IPs. Supercell may have brand recognition, but brand equity remains questionable.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Players can join Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer as they embark on epic quests, solving intricate puzzles, facing dynamic combat challenges, and exploring breathtaking environments. It features stunning visuals, inventive weaponry, and gameplay advancements, making it one of the standout titles for the platform.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Realism basically aims to transfer the real world to a digital platform. This style can be a nice option for adventure, mystery, and puzzle games. Games developed with the fantasy realism art style often involve aliens, races, and creatures that aren’t “real” yet are depicted realistically within the game world. Fantasy Realism.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

To a large extent, ironSource seems to have taken a page out of AppLovin’s playbook by entering Hypercasual publishing after fueling the genre for years as an incredibly robust mediation and monetization platform. This is in line with the current rise in popularity of games with the equally satisfying Merge mechanic in the puzzle genre.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These efforts were hampered by what it identified as increased market competition, particularly in the puzzle genre. H atch was ultimately shut down after very public attempts to sell the platform and technology, but which didn’t yield any buyers. Failing to get buyers speaks volumes about the quality of Hatch.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. Sports games declined largely due to big IP racing games (ex. Casual Games in 2022 In our taxonomy, built together with Sensor Tower, the casual games category is divided into seven genres: Puzzle, Hypercasual, Arcade, Tabletop, Simulation, Lifestyle, and Geolocation.

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