This is a guest post by Melanie Tercha. A recent Google-published study puts compelling data behind a trend that media consumers may have already begun noticing: the TV set is…
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Earlier this week, a game we’ve been working on for over a year launched on the iOS App Store and Facebook. TradeSports is a second screen sports probabilities trading game…
Apps that convert or otherwise make revenue off their users are the ones that turn into scalable businesses. App monetization is a tricky beast because it’s balancing act between the…
What Does it Mean: an opinion series based on fresh news. A few weeks ago Apple did something that I (personally) never thought they would. They announced that App Developers…
PocketGamer has done their due diligence in gathering and exploring the best missions, the best lessons, and the best people of the mobile game development industry. This effort culminates in…
Ugly bottom banners and annoying interstitial pop-ups that interrupt gameplay: this is what most people think of in relation to mobile advertising. Yet free-to-play developers are constantly looking for monetization…
As game developers, we do everything in our power to increase player retention rates—optimizing core loops, creating compelling new features, and re-targeting campaigns, among many other things. One powerful tool…
It’s old news that in mobile games the traditional developer–publisher relationship has been turned upside down: developers no longer need the distribution networks of publishers to reach a mainstream audience…
Introduction I’ve been attending game industry conferences for the past two decades, starting back in the mid 90’s when I worked at EA. I’ve been a speaker or panelist at…
Keith Burgun is an independent game designer, author and blogger. In this guest post for AC&A, Keith explains how Threes, a simple, abstract premium game, has achieved success via word…
