India Growing Up
Indian Mavens reflect on their highlights from NGDC 2015
What happened in Pune
New Lease Of Life
Zero to hero on the back of PGC Bangalore Big Indie Pitch and the power of an App Store feature
How things changed for UNWYND
Om Nom Goes To India
Nazara and ZeptoLab on their ambitions for a culturalised Cut the Rope in India
An NGDC chat with Manish Agarwal and Denis Mozorov
Customer Satisfied
How focusing on UX and retention created success for Gram Games' ad-funded 1010!
Making thousands of dollars a day without IAPs
The Flow
How optimising your funnel can improve your F2P game's performance 100,000-fold
Torulf Jernström on important metrics
Cart And Horse
What's the correct order of Acquisition, Retention and Monetization for F2P games?
Monetizer Mavens shuffle the pack
Myth Buster
5 common myths about mobile advertising busted
David Diaz shoots them down
Troubleshooters
Indie Mavens discuss the difficulties of supporting iOS games
A Sisyphean task
Touch To Find
How Immersion and Google are working together to shed light on haptic-enhanced games
Solving the discoverability quandary through progressive technologies
Ltv > Cpi?
Why you need to spend $100,000 to prove your F2P game works
The magic numbers
Get Hired
How to get a job at NetEase-backed Helsinki startup Reforged Studios
CEO Teemu Vilén shares insights
Picture This
At 27% market share, game developers are already the #1 advertisers on Instagram
Sensor Tower runs the numbers
What's Next?
Mobile Mavens debate the value of the deal and the future of mobile games in the Activision Blizzard King era
Big boys at play
Learning Brief
Inside the Game: The role of interns at Pixelberry
Jessica Yang provides the inside track
Best Available Deal
Why Activision Blizzard bought King, not Zynga, Glu or Kabam
Big bucks
Pewdiepie's Conversion Rate
How to track and maximize ROI on YouTube influencer campaigns
Guy Hollender on digging deeper
Hello World
What does Miitomo tell us about Nintendo's mobile strategy?
Mobile Mavens on Nintendo's first pass
Early Bird
Big in Japan, now Adways is bringing its $1 CPA pre-registration UA platform PreLaunch.me to the west
Ken Asakura on marketing before launch
Apple Goes Unconsole
Are you buying an Apple TV?
Mobile Mavens debate Apple TV
Made To Measure
6 awesome Dashboard charts for F2P games
DeltaDNA has the metrics to measure
Good Games
5 mobile games that give back
A different approach
Get Hired
How to get a job at Japanese-influenced London super startup The Secret Police
Chief Constable Harry Holmwood shares insights
Better Together
Mobile gaming: There's a messaging app for that
Elina Arponen on a new genre
Famous Friends
How celebrity endorsements work in the Japanese mobile game market
David McCarthy on the power of fame
Limited Rights Of Ownership
Mavens debate eternal support versus abandonware for App Store games
50 shades of grey
Sharing
Does the Vivendi-proposed Gameloft-Ubisoft merger make sense?
Our Mavens talk triple French
Paradise Gained
My love/hate relationship with Minions Paradise
Yes, we have no bananas
Value Proposition
How Game Hive's Tap Titans leverages rewarded video
Tap and view to win
Play Your Cards Right
Codemasters' Scott Rombach on Chillingo-published CCG Battle Decks
How Codemasters' Malta studio cooked up a new mobile IP
Aiming High
Bica Studios on the Portuguese industry, VC funding, and Smash Time
"Too much ambition? There's no such thing."
Riding Superfans
What mobile game devs can learn from Tiny Rebel's community-building tactics with Dr. Who Legacy
The Doctor knows
Get Hired
How to get a job at Canadian powerhouse Hothead Games
Producer Chris Pink shares insights
Horror Heroes
Inside the Game: The role of story in Hollywood U's Halloween update
Eric Dean on the power of a fright story
Shoulders Of Giants
The games that inspire our Indie Mavens
Wellspring
New Tech
The battle of IAP plugins will soon be over, but the war of IAP data platforms is just beginning
SOOMLA's Gur Dotan on the future market
Drill Down
How to fight fraud and save up to 30% of your mobile advertising spend
Addict Mobile's Christophe Mosa explains
Finding Patterns
3 things all F2P game developers should be doing with deep data
DeltaDNA shows you how
Forced Into F2p
Crescent Moon founder Josh Presseisen on the quiet death of premium games
New York indie increasingly embracing F2P
Not Taxing
Talking tax relief: Why now's the time for UK indies to shine
How to get a helping hand with The Games Begin
Different Strokes
Discussing Kabam's use of dynamic IAP pricing in Star Wars: Uprising
Monetizer Mavens are nothing if not dynamic
New Horizons
So long, Canada: these countries are mobile gaming's next soft launch frontier
Chartboost advises
Maturing?
Can Subway Surfers' 1 billion downloads ever be repeated?
Mobile Mavens celebrate success
Limelight
Inside the Game: How partnering with Glee's Lea Michele upped our games
Jennifer Young on celebrity power
Get Hired
Redefine publishing with a job at fast-growing Tilting Point
President and co-founder Dan Sherman shares insights
Super Play
What Super Mario Bros. taught us about building exploration and discovery into kids games
Thijs Bosma on learning from the best
Licence To Succeed?
Glu CEO on why James Bond: World of Espionage is inspired by Game of War's LTV, not GoldenEye 007's gameplay
A significant bet
Smarter Box
Are indie devs interested in supporting Apple TV?
Indie Mavens debate Apple's new box
Communion Of Clashers
Supercell talks community, ClashCon and eSports
Marika Appel Community Manager shares insights
Get Hired
How to get a job at Scopely
Senior Technical Recruiter Chris Kale shares insights
Time To Get Paid
A dollar for 8 hours of gameplay is tough math for developers
Monetizer Mavens debate Amazon Underground