If free-to-play becomes the dominant business model for platforms that encourage longer play times and less 'snacking' (such as consoles or PC), how can rich, 8+ hour single-player narrative games (such as Half-Life 2, Tomb Raider or...

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.

Gamesbrief will be making an appearance at the Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield this week. Nicholas will be speaking on ‘Magnetising and monetising apps‘ on Friday. Zoya will be around as well, so if you’re thinking of...

NaturalMotion spoke at the Gamesbrief-sponsored Free-to-play summit about core loops and monetisation. The presentation is a deep but concise guide to synthesising game design and marketing, a key skill in self-publishing a game - as detailed in...

Pixeleap is a relatively new indie studio with four developers. When we were about to release our second game, Vendespillet, we wanted to offer it for free. We talked about in app purchases, but we did not...

At the Mobile Games Forum this year it was clear that the landscape of platforms for games development had changed dramatically in the past year. One year ago, feature phones were still relevant in the US and...

Last month, I argued why, on a ten year view, I don’t believe it will be possible to charge for basic access to content. We will all expect to have access to all the music, all the...