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Games meet daytime TV – Farmville is the early days of the evolution of games from “film” to “television”
The games industry is changing. And the change is every bit as seismic as the emergence of television in the late 1940s was for film. Why is there so much hatred of Farmville amongst games developers? This...
- Posted 15 years ago
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More thoughts on why to raise VC (or why not to)
Following my posts this week on Four reasons why VCs won’t fund games companies and Seed, Series A, Series B: Why the wrong funding can kill your company, I’ve just come another excellent post which I urge...
- Posted 15 years ago
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Seed, Series A, Series B: Why the wrong funding can kill your company
Not all investors are the same. A seed investor is looking for something very different from a Series B investor. Get the wrong investor for your stage of development, and it can kill your business stone dead....
- Posted 15 years ago
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Four reasons why VCs won’t fund games companies
Alice Taylor (of @wonderlandblog / Channel 4 fame) tweeted last week to ask why games companies couldn’t get VC funding in this country. I promised an answer in the blog, and here it is. The basic answer...
- Posted 15 years ago
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Time to change our thinking: developers outsource to publishers, not the other way round
I’ve been helping a lot of developers with their self-publishing strategy and I’ve discovered that there is one thought process that can make a huge difference to how developers (of all levels) think. Conventional wisdom says that...
- Posted 15 years ago
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Why people pay for virtual goods
I was at the Games Gone Wild event in London yesterday (good attendees, format needs work). I heard a fundamental misconception about virtual goods and entertainment purchases repeated a couple of times. “Consumers who enjoy playing free...
- Posted 15 years ago
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Americans are so narrow-minded – a #GDC report
Fresh back from GDC (I use “fresh” inadvisedly – having a small child appears to have made jetlag worse), I’ve been reflecting on what I learned at GDC. My #1 learning? Americans are very narrow minded. They...
- Posted 15 years ago