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GameMakers

The GameMakers podcast publishes current, entertaining, and in-depth discussions on F2P game development. Topics that we cover include the business of games, F2P monetization, liveops, game design, game development processes, team structure, and more.

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00:50:52

Doing the Work For a Top Grossing Game | Game Design...

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2021/09/24

Paul Leydon LILA Games Chief Creative Officer and former lead game designer on multiple #1 top grossing titles like King of Avalon (FunPlus) and Game of War (MZ), discusses his design and research methodology. He discusses the importance of doing the work and depth in making a hit game. Read about it in the GameMakers newsletter: https://gamemakers.substack.com/ Watch it on the GameMakers YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GameMakersStudio --- Send in a voice message:

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00:48:22

IndiaF2P: How India Becomes A World Leader in Games

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2021/09/09

In this conversation, we have some of India’s top game industry leaders. Speakers: #1. Manish Agarwal, CEO of Nazara #2. Amit Hardi, CEO of Nukebox #3. Salone Sehgal, Genera. Partner at Lumikai #4. Anuj Tandon, Head of Corp Dev India & MENA at Krafton The focus of the conversation is oriented around India as a game development ecosystem. We talk about What’s keeping India from becoming the next China or Turkey, what are the strengths of the Indian game dev scene, and how do we accelerate the

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01:22:02

Is the future of games Instant? (Lars Doucet, Emily...

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2021/09/01

We talk about the history and future opportunities for Instant Games. Joining us is Lars Doucet who wrote about this in his blog post (linked below) and Emily Greer, who as the former founder and CEO of Kongregate, has a strong perspective on this. LINKS: - Jon Lai, a16z partner, tweet on Instant Games: https://twitter.com/Tocelot/status/1404914355670437889 - Lars Blog Post "The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past":

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01:02:36

IDFA Loss: Real Data & Real Talk

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2021/08/15

We talk about real-world data and the implications of IDFA deprecation. Now there has been a lot of VERY BAD information being published on this topic. So today we have with us 3 real-world practitioners and some real data about what’s actually happening. More specifically we will discuss: #1. Real world data and impact of IDFA Deprecation #2. Specific changes to how we do UA and Marketing based on the effects of IDFA Deprecation #3. Implications to product and monetization design #4. Who are likely

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00:12:20

Social Casino Outlook with SciPlay's Joe Byrne

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2021/08/12

Read about it in the GameMakers newsletter! Conversation with Joe Byrne Director of Business Development and Strategy at SciPlay one of the world’s biggest and most successful social casino game companies. Topics: #1. How do the most sophisticated game companies use market intelligence data to inform their product strategy? #2. How given new changes because of IDFA deprecation for example would create new requirements for the kinds of insights from the data that we look for? #3. Strategic insights

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00:56:07

Tech Infrastructure for Competitive PVP Games

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2021/07/28

Read about it in the GameMakers newsletter: https://gamemakers.substack.com/ How do competitive PVP games manage and scale up their tech infrastructure? What did Riot do for Valorant? We spoke to arguably the best two people in the entire world to address this question Riot's Head of Infra & Live Ops Zach Blitz and Network Next CEO Glenn Fiedler. SPEAKERS: - Zach Blitz, Head of Infra and Live Ops, Riot Games - Glenn Fiedler, Founder & CEO, Network Next --- Send in a voice message:

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01:23:29

Team vs. Family DEBATE: We Are "Not a Family" 🖕

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2021/07/20

Tobi Lutke and Brian Armstrong re-popularized the notion of companies as described as "families" or "high performance sports teams." This impacts 1. employee performance expectations, 2. how to deal with discussions of social issues at the workplace, and 3. dissociating personal vs. professional lives. Let's have a nuanced discussion with a strong cross-section of key people from the games industry. Speakers: - Eden Chen, CEO Pragma.gg: - Drew Levin, Lead PM Zynga - Chong Ahn, Head of PM EA - Ken

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00:49:00

GameBiz #3 Game Company Growth Strategies ft Chris...

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2021/07/13

Today we will be talking about the current state of Game Company Growth and the various growth strategies being deployed by different game companies. SPEAKERS: - Joseph Kim, CEO, LILA Games - Eric Kress, Principal, Gossamer Consulting - Chris Petrovic, Chief Business Officer, FunPlus LINKS: - Four Growth Paradigms on GameMakers Newsletter Part 1 - Four Growth Paradigms on GameMakers Newsletter Part 2 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gamemakers/message

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00:57:37

GameBiz #2: Talking Strategy & Synergy with...

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2021/07/08

Today we are going to be talking about game publishing, the strategy behind consolidated studio organizations, and the future of the industry. Our speakers include: - Alexis Bonte, Group COO, Stillfront - Nadir Khan, COO, Candywriter - Tobias Kringe, Founder and Managing Director, Bytro Labs Our hosts include - Joseph Kim, CEO, LILA Games - Eric Kress, Principal, Gossamer Consulting - Chris Petrovic, Chief Business Officer, FunPlus --- Send in a voice message:

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00:53:14

GameBiz #1: Game Industry M&A (March 2021) ft. Chris...

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2021/07/07

Speakers: - Joseph Kim. CEO, LILA Games - Eric Kress. Principal, Gossamer - Chris Petrovic. CBO, FunPlus (former SVP & Head of Corporate Strategy, M&A and Business Development at Zynga) Content Overview: 1:15 Intro / Context 4:15 EA's Acquisition of Glu 11:16 Glu Reorganization 15:30 Zynga + AdTech 25:35 Industry Consolidation 38:40 Best M&A Targets 44:15 Smaller M&A Targets 50:00 Final Words --- Send in a voice message:

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00:33:04

Integrating Crypto and Metaverse in Games | Michael...

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2021/06/21

Today we are going to be talking about the Solana Blockchain, the Metaverse, and how it all ties to games. To speak to these issues we spoke to Michael Wagner, co-founder and CEO of Star Atlas, the company making a Metaverse game using the Solana blockchain. SPEAKER: - Michael Wagner, CEO Star Atlas LINKS: - Upcoming Star Atlas drops:http://play.staratlas.com/ - Star Atlas Social Links: Twitter|Telegram|Medium|Youtube|Instagram|Discord|Reddit|Facebook|Linkedin - Joseph Kim, CEO LILA Games - LILA

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00:40:22

4 Game Company Growth Paradigms: Zynga, Applovin,...

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2021/06/20

As game companies become desperate for growth, what are the different strategies they will pursue? Zynga, Applovin, Skillz, and Jam City represent 4 different growth paradigms in F2P gaming. This week I discuss their different approaches to growth and the potential risks these companies face. LINKS: - Joseph Kim, CEO LILA Games - LILA Games: We're Hiring! Especially Systems & Economy Designer, Product Manager, and Level Designer! - GameMakers YouTube Channel --- Send in a voice message:

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00:22:43

MetaHuman Creator | Epic's Road to the Metaverse ft....

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2021/06/14

Epic Games recently announced MetaHuman Creator, a cloud streamed application that enables the creation, live captured animation, and potentially, in the future, fully AI capable life-like NPCs. What are the implications of this new technology to games? In terms of cost, capabilities, and production value? SPEAKER: - Arvind Neelakantan, Tech Evangelist at Epic Games: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvind-ne... HOSTS: - Joseph Kim, CEO at LILA Games: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jokim/ - Avinash

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00:49:38

Data Infrastructure for Live Games ft. Andre Cohen...

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2021/06/09

Key advancements in data infrastructure tech are driving big new changes in game development studios' approach to liveops data. We're seeing rapid adoption of technologies from companies like Snowflake, Grafana, Prometheus, etc. What are the technologies and companies we need to be aware of and how does this impact F2P game live ops? Speaking on this we have world-class experts in André Cohen (Head of Data Science at Tilting Point), Gaurav Gupta (Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, board

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00:27:26

The Warning | Game Companies Face Structural...

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2021/06/08

Sign up for the newsletter everybody: https://gamemakers.substack.com/ JK talks about 5 big changes that will potentially cause huge structural shifts in the games industry all coming to a head in 2021: #1. Post-COVID Renormalization #2. Lack of M&A Targets for Growth #3. Impact of IDFA Deprecation #4. Game Studio + Ad-Tech Vertical Integration #5. The Rise of China RELATED LINKS: - Game Biz #1: Chris Petrovic, Eric Kress, and I talk M&A in 2021 - Mobile Ad Revenue in 2021+: With Josh

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01:16:24

Game Development Best Practices | Chris Cobb (Pragma...

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2021/06/03

We talk about game development methodologies and best practices with how to structure and execute game development. SPEAKERS: - Chris Cobb, co-founder and CTO of Pragma Platform, who also formerly worked as an engineering lead at Riot Games, and held software development roles at both Popcap and Microsoft. - Noemi Rouleau, Associate Producer at Square Enix Montreal. Noemi also worked in production at Ubisoft on games like RainbowSix Siege , For honor, and Assassin’s Creed Origins - Xiang Shen,

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00:40:35

Self Actualization Through Video Games | Shahar Sorek...

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2021/05/28

Today we speak to Shahar Sorek to answer a core and fundamental question behind video games. We will discuss the question: Why do people play video games? JK discusses how Shahar's concepts are very similar to the Japanese game design concepts around "user needs": basically that players will play games to fulfill some latent psychological need or desire manifested through playing games. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gamemakers/message

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00:40:11

Tom Kalinske | The King of Brands (From Flintstone...

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2020/12/04

Tom Kalinske has had a career as the King of Brands. Tom first became well known for marketing Flintstone vitamins and then reviving Barbie and Hot Wheels at Mattel and then Launching Masters of the Universe. In the games industry and perhaps most famously Tom’s efforts to turn around SEGA of America were chronicled in the book and recent CBS documentary Console Wars. Tom famously turned around the SEGA console business growing SEGA of America from $72M to more than $1.5B in revenue. Learn the

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00:58:55

Riz Virk | US-China App Wars, Life is a Video Game,...

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2020/11/26

Riz Virk is Executive Director of Play Labs @MIT. Prior to that Riz has had a very successful entrepreneurial career as part of the founding team of TapJoy and CEO and co-founder of GameView Studios (makers of TapFish) that was sold to DeNA. More recently in addition to his work at MIT Riz has written three books: #1. Treasure Hunt: Follow Your Inner Clues to Find True Success #2. Startup Myths and Models: What you Won’t Learn in Business school #3. An MIT computer scientist shows why AI, Quantum

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00:43:56

Gaming Trends | A Look Ahead to 2021 (SensorTower's...

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2020/11/26

In today’s episode, Randy Nelson from Sensor Tower interviews me (Joseph Kim) about gaming trends in 2020 and potential impacts for the future including 2021 specifically. In this discussion we talk about not only the defining trends of 2020 and what will be the longer term impacts from 2020 into 2021 and beyond but in addition: The nature of the firm Building not only product, but also organizational advantage How to think about and build structural advantage How we view India from the

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