Yesterday, I wrote about the inevitable bursting of the Kickstarter bubble. (The post was originally made on Gamasutra). I had meant to check out the Gartner Hype Cycle and a link from Tadhg Kelly reminded me to do...

As I see it, in most circumstances there are only two main reasons for having a contract, and for caring about what it says. The most important is this: to make the parties think about things before...

There are currently 314 projects live on the Video Games Channel on Kickstarter. Several are fully-funded already (like YogVentures). Others never will be (I've seen at least two massive open-world sandbox games proposed by people who have...

Do you remember the rule of 1/9/90. It was rule of thumb for web designers that 1% created, 9% commented and 90% consumed. If your business depended on the 1%, you were typically in trouble. New research from...

In my GDC talk, I explained how the fictional economies of Final Fantasy in the 1990s games got young people spending money on gaming when their finances were low, by reflecting the loss of stability of the...

"Going toe-to-toe with an experienced venture capitalist negotiating on concepts that are new, difficult to understand, and important to the future of your business is not an easy challenge," says Nic Brisbourne in an Equity Kicker post....

Have you heard of Design This Home? I hadn’t. But it’s in the top 5 of the Top Grossing Apps in the UK, Canada, Australia and Ireland, with 300,000 DAUs and is “set to gross $1m per...