Mobile Mavens

Our panel of experts drawn from all sectors of the mobile gaming industry

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What's been the impact of the App Store on the games industry and where does it go from here? MOBILE MAVENS Jul 20th, 2018

What's been the impact of the App Store on the games industry and where does it go from here?

The Mobile Mavens have their say

Aaron Ludlow Product Director PlayStack
Ben Vu CEO SkyVu Entertainment
Brian Chadwick Corporate Partner Fieldfisher
Devin Nambiar Head of Product and Partnered Development Electronic Arts
Jani Kahrama Founder Secret Exit
Jared Steffes Co-founder Muxy
John Ozimek Co-founder Big Games Machine

John is co-founder of PR and marketing company Big Ideas Machine. Also an all-round nice guy...

Jon Hare Owner Tower Studios

Jon Hare is one of Europe's best known creative directors and game designers with over 10 international number one games to his name and nearly 30 years of experience in the games industry.

Jon co-founded and managed the legendary 1980/90s development company Sensible Software, creating games such as Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder and Wizball to great critical acclaim and commercial success and has also worked in senior posts in two of the UK's biggest games developer/publishers Codemasters and Jagex.

Since 1999 Jon has been one of the top game design and business development consultants in Europe working for many different publishing and development clients.

His own new company Tower Studios specializes in developing, publishing and licensing games on mobile and digital formats enjoying recent international success with the release of Speedball 2 Evolution and Word Explorer across numerous mobile and digital platforms.

Jon has also been a full BAFTA member for over 10 years, serving on the BAFTA Games Committee and is a regular Chairman of juries for BAFTA Games awards, as well as acting in a mentor capacity for both BAFTA and NESTA.

Richard Hazenberg CEO Lunagames
Thomas Nielsen Osao Games
Tom Kinniburgh Consultant MobileFreeToPlay
Wilhelm Taht Executive Vice President, Games Rovio
Is there any room for indie games developers to get in on the battle royale trend? INDIE MAVENS Mar 6th, 2018

Is there any room for indie games developers to get in on the battle royale trend?

Our mobile mavens weigh in

Aaron Fothergill Co-founder Strange Flavour
Ben Murch Co-Founder Perchang
Dan Menard CEO Double Stallion
Molly Heady-Carroll Co-founder & Lead Artist Arcane Circus
Nathan Fouts Founder Mommy's Best Games
Pierre-Luc Vettier CEO Zero Games Studios
Tanya X. Short Creative Director Kitfox Games
Travis Ryan Studio Head Dumpling Design
Mobile Mavens' Games of the Year 2017 BEST OF THE BEST Dec 29th, 2017

Mobile Mavens' Games of the Year 2017

The big names in the industry tell us their top mobile games of 2017

Adam Telfer Consultant MobileFreeToPlay

Adam has been in the mobile game industry since 2007, creating games independently. He's since grown into a full 50+ person studio manager.

Recently he's taken a position at Wooga in Berlin to sharpen his design skills and work with the world's best to create amazing, well-crafted products onto the mobile marketplace.

Alexey Sazonov CEO Panzerdog
Christopher Kassulke CEO HandyGames
Dave Castelnuovo Owner Bolt Creative
Devin Nambiar Head of Product and Partnered Development Electronic Arts
Harry Holmwood CEO Marvelous Europe

A games programmer before joining Sony’s early PlayStation team in 1994, he then founded developer Pure Entertainment, which IPO’d and launched a free-to-play online gaming service way back in 1999.

He was also a director of pioneering motion gaming startup In2Games, which was sold to a US group in 2008.

Along the way, he’s been a corporate VP, troubleshooter, and non-exec to a variety of companies and investors in and around the games sector.

Harry was European CEO of Marvelous AQL, a Japanese developer and publisher of social, mobile and console games, known for console games like No More Heroes and Harvest Moon, but now highly successful in the free-to-play mobile and web space in Japan and Asia.

Harry is CEO of Magicave.

Jani Kahrama Founder Secret Exit
Jared Steffes Co-founder Muxy
Nicolas Godement-Berline Head of Operations Asmodee Digital
Oscar Clark Chief Strategy Officer Fundamentally Games

Oscar Clark has been a pioneer in online, mobile, and console social games services since 1998. He is also author of the book, Games As A Service – How Free To Play Design Can Make Better Games.

Shintaro Kanaoya CEO Chorus Worldwide

Founder and CEO of Chorus Worldwide, a publisher for Western mobile developers seeking success in the Asian markets, Shintaro has over 20 years' experience within the gaming industry.

He has worked in various roles from game production, localisation, marketing and business development at companies such as EA, SCEE, Rare and Microsoft.

Tom Kinniburgh Consultant MobileFreeToPlay
Torulf Jernström CEO Tribeflame
Will Luton Founder/CPO Village Studio Games Village Studio
William D. Volk Chief Futurist Forward Reality
Mobile indie game developer marketing tips INDIE MAVENS Oct 26th, 2017

Mobile indie game developer marketing tips

Our Indie Mavens weigh in

Aaron Fothergill Co-founder Strange Flavour
Dan Menard CEO Double Stallion
Kepa Auwae Business / Design RocketCat Games
Pierre-Luc Vettier CEO Zero Games Studios
Is augmented reality for smartphones a gimmick or great for games? MOBILE MAVENS Oct 25th, 2017

Is augmented reality for smartphones a gimmick or great for games?

The Mobile Mavens have their say on the hot topic

Aaron Ludlow Product Director PlayStack
Ben Vu CEO SkyVu Entertainment
Jared Steffes Co-founder Muxy
John Ozimek Co-founder Big Games Machine

John is co-founder of PR and marketing company Big Ideas Machine. Also an all-round nice guy...

Oscar Clark Chief Strategy Officer Fundamentally Games

Oscar Clark has been a pioneer in online, mobile, and console social games services since 1998. He is also author of the book, Games As A Service – How Free To Play Design Can Make Better Games.

Richard Hazenberg CEO Lunagames
Torulf Jernström CEO Tribeflame
Wilhelm Taht Executive Vice President, Games Rovio
William D. Volk Chief Futurist Forward Reality
Mobile Mavens: Is there an opportunity for smartphones to build on the Nintendo Switch model? MOBILE MAVENS Jul 14th, 2017

Mobile Mavens: Is there an opportunity for smartphones to build on the Nintendo Switch model?

Following recent investments, we ask the experts for their view

Christopher Kassulke CEO HandyGames
Jared Steffes Co-founder Muxy
John Ozimek Co-founder Big Games Machine

John is co-founder of PR and marketing company Big Ideas Machine. Also an all-round nice guy...

Oleg Pridiuk Evangelist, Defold King
Oscar Clark Chief Strategy Officer Fundamentally Games

Oscar Clark has been a pioneer in online, mobile, and console social games services since 1998. He is also author of the book, Games As A Service – How Free To Play Design Can Make Better Games.

Scott Foe Chief Product Officer Ignited Artists
William D. Volk Chief Futurist Forward Reality
as Is Reliance Jio's affordable 4G benefiting Indian mobile game developers? INDIAN MAVENS Jul 5th, 2017

Is Reliance Jio's affordable 4G benefiting Indian mobile game developers?

And does greater engagement lead to greater profits?

Cartic P Business Development Manager Juego Studio Private Limited
Hrishi Oberoi Founder Photon Tadpole
Nalin Savara CEO and Technical Director Darksun Technologies
Rituraj Behera Co-founder Cympl

My name is Rituraj Behera and I am Co-founder of Cympl, an Indie game studio started back in November 2012.

I had begun my career as an application developer but I always loved playing games which attracted me to the fast growing mobile games industry.

I had started the organization with a vision to create high quality mobile games and an attitude to learn & improve everyday.

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