Maturing?
Can Subway Surfers' 1 billion downloads ever be repeated?
Mobile Mavens celebrate success
Profile
Oscar Clark
Job Title
Director
Organisation Arcanix
About
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.
Related Company
Arcanix
Articles featuring Oscar Clark
Give Me Freedom
Is being paid for how long people play your game a good model for developers (or just Amazon)?
Mobile Mavens debate Amazon Underground
Risky Business
Developers discuss the best business practices for indies
Make a good game, and market it well
Virality
Does your game encourage virality, asks Oscar Clark
If you build it, they will tweet
Nextgen Wii?
Will Apple TV be a strong platform for gaming?
Mobile Mavens debate the power of the big screen
Notice Me
Simple marketing tricks for indie devs
Getting noticed and getting downloaded
Talk Talk
What happens when mobile industry bigmouths get 20 slides and 400 seconds? PechaKucha!
Automatic for the people
Indie-pendence Day
What makes a game an "indie game"?
Got the feeling
Indie Introspection
What does indie mean in India any way?
What they think about how they think
Thinking Bigger
Is the $10 billion mobile game franchise inevitable?
Our Mavens ponder big numbers
Glass Half...
Halfway through: Mobile Mavens rate 2015 so far
Their hopes and fears
Not Yankee Doodle Dandy
Was Apple right to yank games using the Confederate Flag?
Mavens debate a great cultural divide
Time To Judge
Two months on, our Wearable Mavens debate if Apple Watch has a killer app?
Or does lack of battery life trump all
App Store Explosion
What can the mobile games industry learn from Fallout Shelter's success?
Mavens debate a perfect storm and ability to sustain
Silver Screen Or Fool's Gold?
Can mobile games head successfully to the movies?
Our Mavens settle back with a large cup of popcorn
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
Slow To Market
Can those old dinosaurs Nintendo, Konami and Square Enix disrupt the mobile games market?
Mobile Mavens discuss the third wave
Slow Start
Why Apple Watch won't hit its stride until Q4 2015
Our Wearable Mavens discuss the first three weeks
Vr Dawning
Is the 12-month wait for Oculus Rift a disaster or an opportunity for VR?
The Mavens debate when virtual reality will dawn
Can't Buy Love
Despite $50 million Crytek deal, Mavens split over whether Amazon has a future in mobile games
So hard to create relevance
Badge Of Honour
Does mobile gaming have its Bloodborne?
Mobile Mavens ponder cultural significance
Present Tense
Is the mobile games industry now mature?
Mobile Mavens consider the case for future disruption
Sending A Message
Burberry, Lamborghini, Hairdressers... It's the $10,000 Apple Watch question
How bling our the Mobile Mavens?
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
India Calling
Rovio, Xiaomi, Unity, and Roadhouse Interactive to speak at Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore 2015
First speaker announcement
New Faces
Oscar Clark is Watching the Watchmen
What's on your wrist?
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Mobile Mavens
[Updated] Mobile Mavens on their hopes and fears for 2015
From smartwatches and YouTubers to UA, clones and HTML5
Mobile Mavens
2014 in Review: The Mavens choose their Game of the Year
From Hearthstone to Monument Valley, Flappy Bird and Kim K...
Mobile Mavens
2014 in Review: Mavens on Flappy Bird, fetishisation of the underdog, regulation, end of the gold rush, and moving beyond mobile
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Mobile Mavens
Can promotional events like Red and Black Friday drive monetisation?
Our Mavens debate charity, sales and engagement
Mobile Mavens
Was it okay for ustwo to charge for Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores?
Or should it have been a free release?
Mobile Gaming Mavens
Why mobile games have no future on your TV screen
Industry luminaries talk Apple, Google and Amazon's assault on your TV
Opinion
Why the value of game competitions isn't winning but taking part
Oscar Clark on sitting in judgement
Mobile Mavens
What Unity did next: Industry reacts to Riccitiello appointment
Is Unity looking to sell, float or..?
Mobile Mavens
Apple's iPad reveal: What the industry wanted and what we got
Did reality match up to the hype?
Mobile Mavens
Rovio's risk: Are layoffs evidence of lean times ahead at the house that Angry Birds built?
Our Mavens give their view
Mobile Mavens
Nine's not fine, so is Microsoft onto a winner with Windows 10?
An OS for all devices, or a Microsoft mess up?
Opinion
The power of building communities for your games face-to-face
Oscar Clark wants to shake you by the hand
Mobile Mavens
Should game developers have their eyes on Apple Watch?
Or is Apple once again leading from the rear?
Mobile Mavens
Where next for user acquisition?
A powerful tool or a rich man's toy?
Mobile Mavens
Primed with a Twitch: Will Amazon ever be a serious gaming company?
Our Mavens go Prime
Opinion
Rethinking design, monetisation and skill for successful local multiplayer gaming
Oscar Clark wants you to make an appointment with play
20 Slides, 400 Seconds
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki meets PechaKucha
20 slides, 400 seconds
Gdc Europe 2014
Mobile is still a "red headed step child", but not for much longer
Pocket Gamer's Mobile Mixer hits Cologne
Mobile Mavens
Blue-sky thinking: What's the future of mobile games?
Time for our Mavens to tell us what's next
Mobile Mavens
Rise of the YouTuber: An opportunity too good for developers to turn down?
Our experts on the pros and cons of the new media wave
Mobile Mavens
Was the ASA right to call out EA on F2P?
And how many acronyms can we get in one headline?
Opinion
The value of getting inside the mind of a gamer
Oscar Clark looks inwards