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…
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Guest: Jeremy Lim | @JeremyLim Hailing from Vancouver, Canada, Jeremy Lim is a composer and music producer for video games, films, and commercials. A musical polyglot, Jeremy composes the gamut, ranging…
Guest: Jonathan Yapp | @m0therai Jonathan Yapp is the founder for m0ther.ai, an AI consultancy in Vancouver, British Columbia, building rich conversational experiences for voice and chat using NLU (Natural Language…
The Perpetual Cycle of a Healthy and Lucrative Meta-Game For the sake of this lesson, let’s say your game just became unbalanced – A new update launches a new character. Suddenly, it…
At AC&A, we work with many gaming companies to help them increase KPIs for the three R’s: Reach, Retention, and Revenue. However, the learnings from the top mobile games can…
For mobile games, an important factor for increasing retention is sending relevant notifications. From the App to the user, alerting them of rewards waiting, or if they’ve received a new…
There have been many different experiments done over time to figure out what the strongest type of content is! What can be posted on social media to evoke the best…
This article focuses on do-and-don’ts of building a copycat game – a game whose key mechanics mimic the successful designs of a previously launched game. This is an area of…
Teardown Overview Executive Summary Released in January 2017, Star Wars Force Arena is one of the most promising games of 2017’s first quarter. The game succeeds in merging two distinct,…
[This post originally appeared on Adrian Crook’s Freetoplay.biz site.] Virtual Goods Summit 2007 – Conference Videos As has already been reported on several sites, the videos from June’s inaugural Virtual…
