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Profile
Adam Telfer
Job Title
VP Product, Head of Slate Strategy
Organisation MobileFreeToPlay
About
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.
Related Company
MobileFreeToPlay
Related People
Tom Kinniburgh
Consultant, MobileFreeToPlay
Articles featuring Adam Telfer
Is It Worth It?
Is it time for the App Store and Google Play to ditch the 70/30 revenue split?
The mobile mavens offer their opinions
Getting The Message
How to approach game design for Facebook Instant Games
Chatterbox Games CPO Adam Telfer breaks down how to make games for chat apps like Messenger
Best Of The Best
Mobile Mavens' Games of the Year 2017
The big names in the industry tell us their top mobile games of 2017
Pgc Interview
How MobileFreeToPlay's Adam Telfer deconstructs games and why you should too
A look at the process of game analysis and its value to developers
New Studio
Ex-Wooga staff start new messaging app games studio Chatterbox
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Monetisation Royale
Brawl Stars versus Clash Royale: Designing a strong gacha
Adam Telfer delves into the monetisation of two of the hottest games on mobile
Mobile Mavens
What do mobile developers think of Supercell's new game Brawl Stars?
Mobile Mavens on Supercell's eSports effort
Blossoming Revamp
Deconstructing Gardenscapes' big pivot to success
Wooga's Adam Telfer analyses the game's history and reasons behind its current success
Mobile Mavens
What can the rise of Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle teach us about in-game event design?
Mavens discuss the power of a well-executed event
Mobile Mavens
Why does Clash Royale have no worthy competition?
A year on, why has there been no challenger for the Clash Royale crown?
Mobile Mavens
How big an impact will Facebook Instant Games have on mobile gaming?
Mobile Mavens discuss the HTML5-powered Messenger platform
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Mobile developers discuss the most important rules of game monetisation design
The most important techniques to get players spending
Candy Crush Pvp
It dominates casual gaming, but can King also be successful in midcore - whatever that is?
Mobile Mavens discuss
Attack Of The Clones?
Will Clash Royale's success herald a wave of synchronous PVP imitators?
Mobile Mavens on clones and eSports
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Is Clash Royale guaranteed to provide Supercell with another Clash of Clans-scale success?
Our Mobile Mavens chew over Supercell's latest
Open The Floodgates
How to fire your boss, according to Wooga's Adam Telfer
GDC Europe sees some unusual advice
Time For Parity?
Are we still treating Android as a second class mobile gaming citizen?
Our Mavens circle the age old iOS-versus-Android debate
Look No Hands
Should your mobile game have an auto-play mode?
Our Mobile Mavens debate skill and the lack of
More Or Fewer
Does the quality of a game trump the quantity of games?
Our Mavens get feisty over the way ahead
The Road Ahead
What advice would you give a F2P developer without $500,000 for UA?
Our Mavens debate broken app stores, crippling UA costs and a misguided bar for success
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Mobile Mavens
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Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Mobile Mavens
It's not about ethics, it's about hate: The games industry closes the door on GamerGate
Our Mavens sum up the last few months
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Where next for user acquisition?
A powerful tool or a rich man's toy?
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Our Mavens ponder whether King will 'do a Zynga?'
Or can it sustain 'peak' Candy Crush Saga?
The Year Ahead
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Our Mobile Gaming Mavens on the year ahead
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No 'micro' discussion
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What's it like for minorities in the industry?
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Elegant design down the crapper
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Legislate and be damned
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The Elf-ephant in the room or a Sanity Claus?
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens discuss the good and bad of piracy
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