Development Details
Azur Games on how it created a top three simulator game
The blog post covers topics such as creating the right visuals and learning from metric analysis
Getting Into Gameloft
Gameloft’s Geet Chopra: “Becoming a good game designer is an iterative process”
What does a day in the life of a junior game designer at Gameloft Toronto look like? And why choose a career in the mobile games industry?
Game Design Document
A Game Design Document can be an invaluable tool for hypercasual studios
Hypercasual development, like the games themselves, moves rapidly. Ludo.ai's Tom Pigott outlines how a Game Design Document can support your hypercasual title, no matter the turnover.
Pitch Me Baby
Thanks to Outfit7’s internal pitching system, my idea turned into our new game
Žiga Sedovnik, Principal Data Scientist at Outfit7, shares how his idea for a new strategy RPG turned into the company’s newest game, Mythic Legends
Validated
Three core ways to validate your game ideas
Fundamentally Games' Oscar Clark provides his alternative to the 'pillars' of game design with his three-pronged approach that acutely combines data and insight with design and the player journey
Designer Acquisition
Mobile game marketers can use game design to build better UA campaigns
Liftoff's Dennis Mink wants mobile game marketers to take inspiration from a source close to home: game design itself
Fundamentals
Understanding design and the user journey in India's mobile gaming scene
PlayerzPot's Mihir Sanchala goes back to the fundamentals as he discusses the expanding awareness of designing the player's journey in India's mobile gaming industry
No Game Of Chance
Evolution, engagement and excellence – how Dice Clubs’ focus on players has shaped the game’s success
b-interaktive co-founder and CEO Eugen Barteska on harnessing player power to build long-term success for Dice Clubs
Hyper Meets Casual
From hype to hyper to hybrid-casual
Voodoo talks about the birth of hybrid-casual
Voodoo Child
How Voodoo helped hone a hypercasual hit
Tummy Games' Nemanja Divjak reflects on its approach to hypercasual and the studio's relationship with Voodoo
Masterclass
What’s the common ground between making games and making whisky?
Playtesting expert Pascal Luban dives deeper
Masterclass
Why no one is more important than the player
Core Game Founder Kelly Vero dives deeper
Design Matters
PocketGamer.biz Podcast Episode 3 - Cobra Mobile
We speak to Cobra Mobile founder and CEO Mark Ettle about the value of making good games
Kill Your Darlings
How To Evaluate Mobile Game Ideas
How can developers evaluate the potential of new game concepts, before committing time and resources to them? AppMagic explains
Creative Tension
Perfect game balance: The Thanos Fallacy
Glyn Fairweather discusses the value of imbalance
Jobs In Games
Self-taught dev Mikael Forslind on life as Elden Pixels CEO
Absolute freedom vs absolute horror!
A.i. Let's Go
How A.I. is changing mobile games and the industry at large
Ubisoft, Zynga, Wargaming and Modl.ai industry experts discuss
N.sanity (beach)
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy was "too detailed and noisy to work on the small mobile screen," says King
Seasonal events, Bandicoot Pass and 70 costumes from day one
Beautiful Games
Square Enix Montréal design team on crafting beautiful gaming experiences for small screens
PGbiz chats to the design team behind mobile titles Lara Croft GO and Hitman GO
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Zynga lead game designer Poornima Seetharaman discusses how to balance gameplay
"Don't add complexity for the sake of it."
Going Hyper
Why now is the perfect time for mid-size casual studios to open up to hypercasual
Crazy Labs COO Guy Tomer explores how you could be making smaller games alongside your regular output
Designing Live Ops
PGC Helsinki Digital: ZeptoLab on designing your game with live ops in mind
Starting with, does your game really need live ops?
Diversity Matters
POC in Mobile: KingsIsle Entertainment games designer Victoria Brown on the importance of networking
"The more connections and relations that you can build will help open up more opportunities in any job that you would want to pursue"
Making Magic
Making match-3 magic: Elevating the genre with IP
Zynga director of product Peter Rosetti on what it takes to bring Harry Potter to match-3
Masterclass
Code Coven's Tara Mustapha on how to get the most from your designers
"Creating elegant frameworks and common languages on a team gives everyone room to focus on the creative magic"
Brawl On And On
Why are people still playing Brawl Stars?
A look at the design choices that make Supercell's fifth game so enjoyable
Order Up
Opinion: I completed Pokemon Cafe Mix in two days, and I probably won't go back
A lesson in making sure you have enough content for your puzzle game
My Talking Tom Friends
Interview: How Outfit7 started a virtual pet revolution with its new game
"What's been wonderful is that the final product is actually very similar to our first concepts"
We Didn't Start The Fire
Why are people still playing Garena Free Fire?
A first-time player tries to explain the battle royale's appeal
Launch Fast
A major lesson from hypercasual for the rest of the industry: Launch fast, test the core gameplay, forget the rest
Skunkworks CEO James Cramer details some of the lessons he's learned
Jobs In Games
Remote Working: How Rovio's design director Timothy Coolidge is operating from his 10-year-old son's bedroom
"In the space of a few weeks, I sold everything and took the leap to join the games industry"
Hyper-casual Design
Five things to consider when designing hyper-casual games
Hyper-casual publishing experts, JoyPac, share key things any developer should know when creating hit casual games
"leap Of Faith"
Indie Spotlight: Steet Lamp Games co-founder on the difficulties of breaking into games in India
Mahesh Athirala details how he started the award-winning studio.
High-yield, Low Effort
Getting more with less: Six high-yield design patterns
Mobile games consultant Matthew Emery looks at some easy ways to boost profits with the least amount of effort
Whole New World
How TerraGenesis developer Edgeworks attracts players who have never played games before
The developer talks realism in game design, player engagement and smart monetization tactics
International Women's Week
Women in Gaming: Sumo Digital's Lucy Smith discusses the allure of games design
"Anyone who has a strong work ethic and attitude can achieve anything"
Five Years Of Adventures
Hyper Hippo’s Tristan Rattink on why AdVenture Capitalist is still here after 5 years
How the studio took "the least sexy idea" and made it into a global phenomenon
Hypercasual Vs Gaas
Hypercasual vs GAAS - Lessons for lean #Gamedev
What can two very different development strategies can teach us as game developers
Pgc London 2020
Snap Finger's Joanna Haslam on the positives of game design documents
Design director shared her tips and tricks in London
What Is Hypercasual?
Kwalee on what exactly makes a hypercasual game
Head of publishing Simon Prytherch on building a game for the fastest-growing genre
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”
Job News
Voodoo brings on Blizzard, King and Mamau hires for Berlin studio
Two new game designers and two new developers
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: ZeptoLab’s Jorge Rosado on how to become a game designer
“I was naive enough to think that I would become a millionaire and would be able to afford a Ferrari with my very first game”
Marketing Design
How marketing can be baked into game design
"You can't spell marketing without design," says Those Awesome Guys founder
How To
Adapt or disrupt: A practical guide to surviving in a golden age of games
Oscar Clark offers astute business and game design tips
Walking The Line
The delicate balancing act behind midcore match-three Sega Heroes
Finding core-casual sweetspot
Gdc
Supercell: It takes more than one great idea to make a successful game
Studio veteran Touko Tahkokallio shared his granular approach to development at this year’s GDC
Mistakes
Miyamoto: Regrettable choices were made during the development of Super Mario Run
Difficulty curve and fixed-price model could’ve been improved, claims the legendary designer
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
Dreams To Life
How developers turn their ideas into reality
Martine Spaans leads a panel on ideas and working with others