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Deconstructing Mythical Games with CEO John Lindon
Download Full PDF Report Sign up with your email address to receive the full PDF report, and sign up for Naavik Digest. We respect your privacy. This essay, spearheaded by Alex Summers, was first published in Naavik Pro. If you’d like to regularly receive deconstructions and market updates like this, make sure to sign up…
Love & Pies: A Masterful Pivot to Merge-2
In this deconstruction of Love & Pies, we dig into how this game became such a strongly performing merge-2 game — including its major pivot, investment from Supercell, core game mechanics, and how it’s working to maintain high retention and rising RPD.
REVV Racing: The Last Lap?
In this essay we conduct a mini-deconstruction on REVV Racing, an early web3 racing game made by Animoca Brands. We break down the game itself, as well as analyze the game’s token strategy and how it fits into a broader racing ecosystem strategy. Can the game go full throttle and reaccelerate its user traction? Let’s find out.
Animoca Brands: Building the Open Metaverse
In this essay, we take a follow-up look at Animoca Brands. We analyze the company’s goal, growing portfolio, dig into three key projects, and discuss how the company may perform in the future.
Sorare: Moneyball On-chain
In this deconstruction, we explore why Sorare has been able to grow and succeed while many other blockchain games have failed. We dig into the fantasy sports market, Sorare’s unique approach, the game design, the sustainability behind its economic model, how it benefits from web3, and advice for what’s next.
Beatstar: The Western World Finds its Rhythm
A year ago, Space Ape released Beatstar worldwide, and it has grown into the world’s most lucrative mobile rhythm game. The essay explores the significant changes the game has made to pull this off and discusses how it can still level up from here.
Crypto Unicorns: A Unicorn in the Making?
In this deconstruction of Crypto Unicorns, we dig into the team’s mission, the different upcoming game modes, assess what causes the various asset prices to move, discuss the governance flaws, and provide some recommendations for the future of the game.
An Introduction To Blockchain Gaming Infrastructure — and How You Can Use It Today
Source: VentureBeat Forte and Naavik recently teamed up to provide ongoing deep dives geared toward helping game developers better build, launch, and scale successful and sustainable blockchain games. This is the second essay in our series, spearheaded by Maxime Eyraud. Designing and operating a game can be daunting enough in and of itself. Add to…
Diablo Immortal’s Westward Journey
In this deconstruction of Diablo Immortal we take a look at the game’s launch and early performance trends, put it into perspective of the broader mobile RPG market, dig into the game and economy design, cover the key China risk, and discuss whether the game will be able to succeed at the level Activision Blizzard hopes it will.
Free Fire: Bringing Battle Royale to the World
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