At the time of the advent of smart phones, the era of 3G networks has not yet ended, from "Angry Birds" to today's many mobile game producers, some have all the way to the market throne, and some have lost Maicheng and collapsed.
As a "witness to the history of the development of mobile games", Uncle Monster came to talk to you today about the manufacturers and mobile games that have gradually faded out of people's sight and have had a highlight moment.
▌ Gameloft, a subsidiary of Ubisoft
This was once a mobile game company that won the world's first place in terms of production and revenue, and its studios could be said to be all over the world before 2014, with beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chengdu branches in China alone.
The history of Gameloft can be traced back to the popularization of smart machines until it was controlled by Vivendi, who developed hundreds of games;
The most well-known of these are the Wild Drag Racing series, the Modern Warfare series modeled after Activision, the Dungeon Hunter series, Sin City, modeled after R Star "Give Him Love", and big IP licensed by parent companies such as Rainbow Six.
It's not hard to see that it's clear that most of Gameloft's games are "fetch-ism", after all, replicating the success stories of other platforms can greatly reduce costs and risks.
Over the years, many manufacturers have proved to the market that it is a good thing to reproduce new games with existing successful gameplay, but Gameloft has missed one thing: when there are free games on the market, who will take the risk of playing paid games?
Gameloft's revenue has plummeted since the entry of Japanese and Chinese mobile game manufacturers; by May 2017, the Guillemot family, the company's de facto owners, sold shares to leave, and Vivendi completely swallowed Gameloft.
Today's Gameloft, under the control of Vivendi, continues to launch free "in-app purchase" or "draw card" games, and begins to "exhaust" the original IP.
A generation of mobile game kings still failed to get a very good ending after all.
▌ Temple Escape Imangi Studios
Imangi Studios is the kind of internal skill master in typical martial arts novels, practicing swords to the pinnacle, and then only producing one sword when competing with others;
Why only one sword, because he has only practiced this sword all his life, after the sword, no matter whether he wins or loses, the second sword will not have much effect.
And Temple Run is the sword that Imangi Studios practiced;
Instead of immediately creating new games after the Temple Run fire, Imangi Studios partnered with Disney to cement this hard-won success.
Eight years have passed since the launch of Temple Run 2, and Imangi Studios has not studied new gameplay and modes, not inflated, not aggressive.
Imangi Studios has always maintained a small team mode, not crazy to increase their volume like Gameloft, in the face of the tide of free-to-play games, they choose to be alone, which can be said to be very valuable for game producers.
▌ Little crocodile loves to bathe Creature Feep
The Creation Feep, which also works with Disney, is basically similar to the experience of Imangi Studios.
Released a year before Temple Run, Little Crocodile Loves Bathing is also an essential "iOS" app that was once very popular.
And this small team is also locked on the "little crocodile" IP, and due to Disney's follow-up operations, resulting in the failure of the in-house purchase DLC;
When free-to-play games beat the pay-per-view market, Little Crocodile Loves Bathing also faded.
Many years later, even when I talk to my peers about the game, not to mention the development company, most people only remember the impression of playing on the smartphones of their parents' early days.
A generation of mobile games, a generation of gods, a generation of new people for the old; because there are too many examples, here will not be repeated, in your impression of what games are gradually disappearing, do you know how its developers are? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss Oh~
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