My first iPhone Game (UFO Invader) was released just one week ago as a $0.99 paid app. It’s also a bit of an experiment so I included an ad at the bottom of the the menu screens...

I'm experimenting with the idea of 52 game idea explosions: small, perfectly formed ideas that you can pick up and go - aha, that helps me think of ways of improving my online game (social, mobile, browser,...

The Escapist magazine ran a video introduction to microtransactions. I took a deep breath before I watched it – expecting a Zero Punctuation style scathing review of the business model that would probably make me laugh out...

I've been working on an idea over my holiday. It's for a short, punchy book that will give you 52 ways to improve your free-to-play game. Currently it merges ideas from social games, from free-to-play, from mobile and...

On holiday in France, I've been playing Nimblebit Tiny Tower on my wife's iPad. It's a marvellous game (like a free-to-play version of Little Computer People, if you are old enough to remember that), and I'm busy...

In the wake of the recent spate of formerly subscription-based MMOs adopting a free-to-play model (City of Heroes, LEGO Universe, Age of Conan, LOTRO), MCV asked me to answer some questions on why this model works so...

This is a guest post from Paul Taylor of Mode 7, an indie development studio based in Oxford. Their current project is Frozen Synapse, a critically acclaimed multiplayer and single player squad-based tactical game for PC and...