Flames On The Side Of My Face
Paul Farley’s Firestoke raises $2.2 million
Mobile games industry luminary’s indie games publisher to bridge gap between triple-A and mobile experiences
Profile
Paul Farley
Job Title
CEO / Founder
Organisation Firestoke Games
About
Since founding Tag Games in 2006 Paul has built the studio from humble beginnings to become one of the most respected and successful mobile and handheld developers in Europe.
He began a long, and some might say, distinguished, games industry career at legendary developer DMA Design, playing a key role in the development of the GTA series
Related Company
Firestoke Games
Articles featuring Paul Farley
See Eu Later
What do UK mobile game developers think of Brexit?
Post-referendum discussion from the UK mobile games industry
Jobs News
Tag Games names new CEO as Paul Farley moves to head up live ops platform ChilliConnect
Farley wants to "democratise live ops and connected gaming"
Life Goes On
Why Tag Games is offering external live ops for developers
Could it be the future?
Tagging In
Tag Games kicks off live ops business by collaborating with Flaregames on Nonstop Knight
Moving away from development to look after other studios' games
Mobile Mavens
Would Supercell acquiring other studios be a good idea?
Our Mobile Mavens discuss Ilkka Paananen's hints
5 Years Of F2p
Angry Birds Action! dev Tag Games on the challenges and opportunities of going F2P
CEO Paul Farley explains
Time Flies
10 years of Pocket Gamer: Mobile Mavens discuss where we've all come from
Remembering a decade of mobile gaming
Double Figures
10 years of Pocket Gamer: It all started with Java for Tag Games CEO Paul Farley
10 questions, 10 answers, 10 years
Thinking Bigger
Is the $10 billion mobile game franchise inevitable?
Our Mavens ponder big numbers
Silver Screen Or Fool's Gold?
Can mobile games head successfully to the movies?
Our Mavens settle back with a large cup of popcorn
Present Tense
Is the mobile games industry now mature?
Mobile Mavens consider the case for future disruption
It's Me Mario!
How will Nintendo's beloved franchises go F2P?
Mobile Mavens debate Nintendo's entry to mobile games
Sharing Source
Tag Games on empowering the dev community with its F2P-focused ChilliWorks tools
New middleware, new approach
Hot Stuff
Tag heats up mobile games tools market with open source ChilliSource engine
First slice of the ChilliWorks suite
Mobile Mavens
The geography game: Is the UK's toxic attitude to F2P holding developers back?
Our experts give their view
How can developers deliver the next Flappy Bird? (And should they even try?)
Our Mobile Gaming Mavens give their take
Can paid games successfully switch to free-to-play post launch?
Our Mobile Gaming Mavens talk New Star Soccer
Supercell: The developer that's shut down without having to shut down
Our Mavens reveal why $1.5 billion was a bargain
Is 70,000 apps enough to aid a BlackBerry bounce back?
PocketGamer.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens discuss
The PocketGamer.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on the real cost of user acquisition
Industry heading for a crash?
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on whether mobile publishers still pack punch
The state of independence
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on the ethics of App Store chart manipulation
Welcome to Bot-Farmville
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on the prospects for Nokia-fuelled Windows Phones
Lumia - a new dawn?
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens debate whether monetisation and metrics are killing mobile games?
Price of everything, value of nothing?
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on what's going to be the most exciting Apple news of the week
Plus a bonus gold versus APPL shares question
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on what was big and what was missing from E3 and WWDC
No news is bad news
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens discuss how to make a successful iOS game
Does it have to have a bird in it?
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on: IGDA versus Amazon Appstore
Responses range from the right thing to cheap publicity