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Early challenges launching Ionage free-to-play
The IAPs in Ionage work a little differently to the majority of F2P games. Although the exact implementation is a little different to the plan I laid out in my last article, the main goals are the...
- Posted 11 years ago
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Pyramid and Funnel: modelling your game and your business
Today I’m excited to announce that we’re launching our first ever poster. We’re using the poster to talk about a new model of free-to-play game design: the pyramid. It’s a model that we hope will transform the...
- Posted 11 years ago
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“We treat all our players like whales”: Community management at 5th Planet games
“Zoe is a god to people.” I was interviewing Robert Winkler, CEO of 5th Planet Games. We’d been talking about his company’s platform policy (hit everything all the time) and their growth from ramen-profitable start-up to leading developer...
- Posted 11 years ago
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Can we get The Curve into the Bestseller charts? Please help
The Curve will be published on October 3rd 2013 in the US, the UK and the Commonwealth. (I know the Commonwealth is a bit old-fashioned, but it’s how the book industry divides up the English speaking world....
- Posted 11 years ago
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“Your problem is that you are afraid of being punched in the face”
This was the borderline inappropriate comment that I made to a game designer at a client recently. The fact that the game designer was female didn’t exactly help my case. Yet this is the single biggest problem...
- Posted 11 years ago
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Funding our first independent project | Remode diary 1
This is the first in a series of development diaries from Remode. For other development diaries, check out the Spilt Milk diaries and Dlala Studios’ first post. I’m Ella Romanos, CEO of Remode, a game developer based...
- Posted 11 years ago
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Yesterday, I did something for the first time since I was 13
I fired up GameMaker and started to make a game. Actually, that’s a bit of an overstatement. I’m older now, and realise the value of following tutorials to save time later, so I’m just following the initial...
- Posted 11 years ago