In a fairly different talk that she usually gives, Emily looks into social elements in her own life and how they relate to community and life in games. GDC Microtalks 2014 - Community Building [//www.slideshare.net/emily_greer/gdc-microtalks-2014-community-building] from emily_greer [https://www.slideshare.net/emily_greer]
Emily gave a talk at GDC this week sharing both numbers and lessons learned in our first year of publishing games on mobile, including how monetization differs between iOS and Android, problems and pitfalls with mobile data, and what's most important to success in mobile. Check out the slides here: GDC 2014 Core Games, Real Numbers: Going Cross-Platform [//www.slideshare.net/emily_greer/gdc-2014-core-games-real-numbers-going-crossplatform] from emily_greer [https://www.slideshare.net/emily_gr
Anthony gave a talk at Casual Connect Kiev that rapidly went through some of the major lessons and design elements that Kongregate has learned over the years. It also pointed out a few differences that we have observed in games designed in Eastern Europe with an eye on how to improve some metrics for these talented developers. You can see the full talk here, posted by Casual Connect: If you want to flip through or download the slides, check them out below. F2P Design Crash Course (Casual Conn
Emily gave a talk at GDC Next this week focusing on all of the problems and pitfalls people run into in data analysis, tailored specifically to issues that commonly come up in games. Check it out: Data Gone Wrong - GDCNext 2013 [//www.slideshare.net/emily_greer/microsoft-power-point-gdc-next-2013-data-gone-badv2-notes] from emily_greer [https://www.slideshare.net/emily_greer]
Anthony gave a talk at GDC Europe this week focused on how to design guilds to be fun, engaging, and profitable for free to play games. He walks through a bunch of design decisions to make, talking about what to consider for your game and what the implications might be. [Note: If you want to read the notes and comments on each slide, view it on the SlideShare website directly instead of below] Check it out: Building Games for the Long Term: Pragmatic F2P Guild Design (GDC Europe 2013) [//www.sl
This morning Emily Greer (our COO) gave a presentation at Casual Connect San Francisco diving deep both into the economics that drive virtual goods purchases in games and advice on how to get monetization right. The talk builds on previous talks with new data, case studies, and analysis. Check it out below: Maximizing Monetization - Casual Connect SF 2013 [//www.slideshare.net/emily_greer/maximizing-monetization-casual-connect-sf-2013] from emily_greer [https://www.slideshare.net/emily_greer]
On Thursday, July 11th at 11am Pacific time, Emily Greer and Anthony Pecorella (Kongregate's COO and Director of Virtual Goods Production, respectively) will present a live webinar on free-to-play games. This webinar will be based on your questions about F2P, so feel free to submit what's on your mind to our handy online form [https://docs.google.com/a/kongregate.com/forms/d/1N7WxArmIvBnl8yivV2C7dy05gRm237uR-YKT8urVTig/viewform] . Please get your questions in by July 5th to give us enough time
A few weeks ago David Chiu (our Director of Developer Relations & Business Development) gave a presentation at Casual Connect Asia breaking down key elements of F2P retention and monetization in Eastern versus Western games. The results are quite striking and the presentation – utilizing some info you may already be familiar with from another presentation COO Emily Greer gave – is worth digging into. The ARPU and ARPPU distinctions are quite striking and you might be able to learn a thing or tw
We believe games can live forever. While people throw around near-sighted terms like DAU and ARPDAU, we think developers should be planning in terms of years and not days. Last week at GDC, Emily delivered a well-received talk titled "Building Games for the Long Term: Maximizing Monetization and Player Satisfaction". Pulling data from over 300 virtual goods games, she broke down real evidence showing how real success comes from building and maintaining a playerbase that sticks around. Below y