6 videos on mobile games industry trends for 2017 from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco

• Game video streaming: Your game is being watched more than it is being played

  The games market has always been about people playing video games. Recently, the “”people playing games”” experience has extended into “”people watching others playing games””.

  In just eight years, the video streaming of games has reached 30% of the total games consumption, and is foreseen to overtake classic playing of games in the next five years. Yet so far nobody has measured what soon will be the dominant consumption of games.

  Forced by this trend, game developers need to better understand the consumption of their games and the competition, as well as to adapt their games making them fun to be watched and streamed.

  PlayStats was launched at PGC San Francisco. PlayStats has already indexed nine million game play videos, mapping the “watch”” consumption of PC, mobile, console and browser games.

  
  

• Secrets to optimising your mobile game live ops

  In this talk, Scott Humphries, Head of Product Development at Amber Studios, unveils new findings from the first annual Amber live ops Playbook.

  Humphries discusses different methodologies for attacking live ops, how to approach live ops from an optimisation standpoint, best ways to monetise etc.

  The discussion will uses various case studies to highlight the importance of the more “block and tackle” processes like events, ad optimisation and the first-time user experience.

  
  

• Licensed games masterclass

  Have you ever wanted to create a great game with a great brand? Navigating these waters are tricky and this primer will give you the tools you need to find, secure, and operate an amazing branded game.

  Get pragmatic advice from the CEO of a small studio that was able to secure three major licenses in the last year.

  
  

• Meta-feature trends in social casino games

  Liquid And Grit Editor-in-Chief Brett Nowak discusses the biggest trends in the social casino gaming space.

  
  

• New UX in mobile social games

  InnoSpark Chairman Daniel Cho discusses new ways to developer the mobile user experience to maximise success.

  
  

• Engineering success: The CSR Racing 2 story

  NaturalMotion CSR Racing 2 GM Julian Widdows discusses how it made the sequel the number one racing game in the world.

  
  

• Discover more at Pocket Gamer Connects in person

  Want to get more information and analysis from the experts about the latest games industry trends?

  As well as these videos and constant coverage on the PocketGamer.biz site of course, we're bringing Pocket Gamer Connects to plenty more cities around the world!

  On September 19th to 20th 2017, we'll be holding Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki!

  Bit too far for you? Well, on January 22nd to 23rd 2018 we'll be hosting Pocket Gamer Connects London.

  At the same time as both of these events, we'll also be hosting our VR and AR event XR Connects.

  And while we're at it... you can expect brand new PC tracks and more influencer content at our events in future too!

  We hope you enjoyed the videos, more of which you can find on the PocketGamer.biz YouTube channel.

  We look forward to seeing you at future events!