Nicholas asked me to write an article on the perspective of managing Free to Play titles as a publisher, rather than a developer, so here are some of the things I have learned from my time overseeing...

I'll be speaking at the Game Design Conference in San Francisco on Monday next week, giving a Lightning session on the Gamesbrief Free to Play Spreadsheet. I'll be livetweeting the whole day from @rupazero.

There are so many stats bandied around for F2P games, it can sometimes be difficult to choose which ones to track. We don’t currently use ARPDAU (Average Revenue Per Daily Active User) in the GAMESbrief spreadsheet, but...

I recently gave a talk at the Social Games Summit in Berlin about metrics in free-to-play games. Basicually, it's a quick-start guide to using the online games spreadsheet to start tracking your games' success and figuring out...

“Does free-to-play work” is no longer the question. Those who say it doesn’t are the games equivalent of climate change deniers. What matters now is how to make free-to-play work WELL to create popular, enjoyable and profitable...

How will you face the challenge? We don't have a magic formula for growing large, loyal communities of fans (yet - do subscribe to the newsletter just in case we happen upon it some day) but we...