Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Sonja Angesleva will be talking about how Zynga handles product management
"Product planning, player validation, and analytics"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Jestercraft’s Klaus Kääriäinen to deliver talk on hybrid monetisation
“When learning to make games the sooner you start to create something the sooner you can realize what it takes to make full-blown entertainment products”
Keep Talking
Indie Spotlight: Steel Crate Games co-founder on the uncertainty of premium mobile games
If you don't enjoy the process and experience of game development, there are far more likely paths to wealth
Jobs In Games
"Game design isn’t all about grand ideas and blue-sky visions of exciting new games"
“The devil is in the detail”
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Funday Factory’s Emil Kjaehr to discuss game developer life lessons
“First thing I'd say is that you should be willing to relocate! In the Nordics, for instance, studios mostly cluster around a few large cities”
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Full HP Ltd’s Murad Musakaev to discuss balancing priorities between growth and retention
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki is being held from October 1st to 2nd
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Quicksave’s Elina Arponen to host a talk on the challenges of games as a business
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki is being held on October 1st to 2nd
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Gametapas’ Juan Gril to host talk on game depth in hyper-casual games
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki takes place from October 1st to 2nd
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Olivér Papp on why it's important to acknowledge your learnings at the end of a project
"You gained so much knowledge and experience during your journey and you should acknowledge it"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Homa Games’ Jon Hook to discuss the future of hyper-casual games
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki takes place from October 1st to October 2nd
Indie Spotlight
Platonic Games co-founders on risking it all to form the studio
"It’s going to be our biggest and riskiest project so far"
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Futureplay's Chris Wilson on going from food apps to marketing manager
"Though food tech and gaming are very different industries on the face of it, there are many similarities in the foundations of app marketing"
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Alike Studio on developing successful premium games and creating Very Little Nightmares
This week we put the spotlight on twin brothers Xavi and Marc Terris and the team at Alike
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Big Pixel Studios' Lorchan Trapp on how to be an environment artist
"People seem to assume there's a hidden 'make art button' in the software we use and don't understand that it actually takes a lot of time and skill to develop good art"
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Level designer Jay Foreman on going from Kent Police force to making games at King
"Suddenly I’d gone from policing the streets of Kent to policing the mean streets of Stormwind as a game master for Blizzard"
Nfts
PGC Hong Kong: WAX strategic advisor Malcolm Caselle to host talk on the purpose of digital goods and NFTs
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Pg Connects
PGC Hong Kong: Dark Horse Digital director Jason Frazer on how to apply knowledge from one field to another successfully
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Market Trends
PGC Hong Kong: Kunlun Korea GM Sean Lim on mobile market trends
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Blockchain
PGC Hong Kong: Liquefy CEO Adrian Lai on the importance of tokenisation in esports
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Indie Spotlight
Quite Fresh owner Stefan Åhlin on the life of a solo developer
"I feel really lucky to be working with something I love doing at the same time as being in control of my day to day"
Live Ops
PGC Hong Kong: Touchten Games CEO Rokimas Soeharyo on growing live ops
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: East Side Games' Elin Jonsson on the misconceptions of being a games producer
"I know how incredibly hard it is to run a studio, and I don’t take my current job for granted"
Html5
PGC Hong Kong: Black Snowflake CEO to host session on HTML5 games market
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Esports
PGC Hong Kong: ENCE esports CEO Mika Kuusisto to speak about the future of competitive play
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
App Store Optimisation
PGC Hong Kong: Lab Cave CMO Enric Pedro on app store optimisation
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Blockchain Gaming
PGC Hong Kong: 8Hours Foundation Shane Zhu on what’s next for blockchain gaming
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Scopely’s Liz Liu on how to get a job as a people business partner
"Gaming is the convergence of art and science, where creative people work together to build experiences for human connection"
Mobile Art Style
PGC Hong Kong: GameRefinery chief analyst Kalle Heikkinen to discuss mobile art styles across different regions
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Nfts
PGC Hong Kong: Animoca Brands CEO Robby Yung on the importance of NFTs
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Pgc Hong Kong 2019
PGC Hong Kong: Twitchy Finger founder and CEO Edward Li on future opportunities for developers
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Hong Kong: Superera VP Joe Tang on designing and creating a successful idle game
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong 2019 will take place on July 17th to 18th
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Noodlecake Studios COO on transitioning to games-as-a-service for Golf Blitz
"You need to get your face out there, showing off your games and build a small community to champion it all"
Tagged In
How Tag Games balances work-for-hire development and live ops
CEO Marc Williamson reflects on the company's history and his year in charge
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Outplay Entertainment’s Riccardo Tramma on how to get a job as an engineer
"The advances in technology and the quality of the games have contributed to creating completely new professional fields of expertise"
Indie Spotlight
Weather Factory co-founder Alexis Kennedy on making fun over profit
“Safety, fun, or profit: pick one”
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Next Games’ Matias Ärje on how to get a job as director of technology
"Purpose comes from getting the results of your work into the hands of millions of people"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Hong Kong: Boomzap creative director Chris Natsuume on hyper-casual concerns and player burnout
Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong takes place on July 17th to 18th
Indie Spotlight
Nyamyam co-founder Jennifer Schneidereit on transitioning from triple-A games to indie life
"Developers are driving customers to the storefronts but not vice versa"
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Ndemic Creations on how games-as-a-service has become the status quo
"One of the things I love about the games industry is that no one really has a clue what is going on."
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: CD Projekt Red’s Hollie Bennett on going from midwife to head of communications
"Rome wasn’t built in a day. It’s going to hurt. You're going to see rejections, you might not even see responses. That’s okay. It’s not going to happen overnight"
Indie Spotlight
"There are too many games that have been designed around the business model"
"I wanted to create something which was beautiful, accessible, yet deep and challenging"
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Gameloft’s Hugues Ossart on organising international events and esports
"The most important thing in esports is keeping the player at the heart of the experience"
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: DigiPen Institute of Technology lecturer Jo Cronk to discuss culture and diversity at PGC Seattle
Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019 will take place on May 13th to 14th
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: FlowMotion Entertainment CCO Nathan Sellyn on industry consolidation and new opportunities for devs
Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019 will take place on May 13th to 14th
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: Hatch Entertainment VP Nick Thomas on the dawn of games streaming and what it means
Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019 will take place on May 13th to 14th
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: AuthorDigital CEO Serena Robar on chasing your dreams and working in a male-dominated industry
Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019 will take place on May 13th to 14th
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: JetSynthesys' Scott Prather to discuss driving mobile growth in emerging regions at PGC Seattle
Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019 will take place on May 13th to 14th
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: LBC Studios CEO Solon Bucholtz on being an entrepreneur and taking calculated risks
Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019 will take place on May 13th to 14th
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: Nordeus' Božo Janković on the future of mobile game monetisation
Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019 will take place on May 13th to 14th
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: Matcherino CEO John Maffei to discuss esports monetisation at PGC Seattle
Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019 will take place on May 13th to 14th