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Tag: User Experience
Enhanced Experience
UX in Candy Crush and the "deceptively complex" world of boosters
Ai Advancements
Supercell and Aiba talk AI and player experiences: "AI does not have taste"
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Masterclass
UX Strategist Celia Hodent to hold masterclass blending cognitive science with practical game UX frameworks
The session explores how perception, attention, memory, and emotion shape player experience
Pgc London 2025
"The number one job of narrative is to make a game less weird"
MY.GAMES head of narrative Armando Troisi talks the interaction between gameplay and narrative
Ambitious Ads
Eric Futoran talks balancing player experience, sustainability, and monetisation
Embrace CEO and former Scopely co-founder discusses player engagement, ad engagement, and game mechanics with Half Moon Studios CEO Pieter Kooyman
New Year's Resolutions
Why making marginal gains should be every developer's prime strategy for 2024
LifeStreet, CEO Levi Matkins gives us his simple but effective, six-step game plan to deliver substantial results
Podcast
Embrace’s Eric Futoran on turning user experience into tech that solves problems | Podcast
The PocketGamer.biz podcast team and guests give you the state of play every week. Here's where to get it and and what's inside this week's episode…
Making Myths
Spectarium raises €5M in Seed Round to bolster personalised AI RPG Myths
Each player will have a unique experience by leveraging AI technology
Devcom 2023
Devcom Highlights: The Psychology of Play
Anna Brandberg, lead UX designers for Funcom studio The Outsiders digs into the mindset of every developer’s best friend… and greatest challenge
Partnerships
Xsolla to partner with Mastercard for mobile payment support
Xsolla is set to partner with payment provider Mastercard in order to support mobile gamers making payments
Podcast
The art of a successful game launch | Podcast
Keywords Studios, Helpshift, KantanAI and Backtrace join the PG.biz podcast team to explore what it takes to ensure a successful game launch in 2023
Interview
Dr Jaime Gonzalo of Huawei on the important role of alternative storefronts for mobile gaming
Dr Jaime Gonzalo is the VP of Huawei Consumer Mobile Services in Europe, he talks to us about the challenges facing the industry and the future of mobile
Immersive Immortalis
Arm’s flagship Immortalis GPU to allow hardware-based ray tracing on mobile
Arm’s first GPU signifies player interest in 3D worlds
Pg Connects Seattle
Solsten's Josh Rivers: "You need to know who your audience is, and why might they come to my game"
Getting an in-depth understanding of the psychology of your active and potential players brings out their – and your – best, says Solsten's Josh Rivers
Speaker Spotlight
Solsten's Josh Rivers on the elusive nature of “finding the fun” and the future of player-centered games
Meet the mobile games and Web3 experts at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle, May 9-10
Hot Five
Hot Five: Zynga, Rovio, ustwo games, Bluestacks interviews, and how to avoid UX/UI dark patterns
The hottest interviews and features on PG.biz
Dark Times
How to prevent ‘purposefully neglectful’ UI/UX dark patterns in F2P mobile games
Game UI Database’s Edd Coates gives his tips to developers looking to gain player trust, avoid manipulative dark patterns, and distinguish their F2P mobile game
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
Gdc
GDC: How King tells a story with UX
Abigail Rindo, lead narrative designer at King, discusses best practice in user experience design and player-centric game narrative to enhance storytelling.
Are You Experienced?
Careers in games: getting started as a UX designer
What does it take to become a successful user experience designer in the games industry? Peggy Ann Salz speaks to Jasmin Dahncke and Caitlin Goodale about the role, skills, and routes in
Player First Always
How to balance game monetisation with a player-first mindset
Meta Audience Network explores the ways in which leading developers and publishers utilise monetisation strategies to complement the player experience and drive engagement
Pgc Digital #8
PGC Digital: How to enhance the first time user experience
Electric Square UX designer Kristina Miles talks retention
Speaker Spotlight
Kristina Miles on the importance of user experience on mobile
Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
Masterclass
Why no one is more important than the player
Core Game Founder Kelly Vero dives deeper
Zoom In
TapNation launches new talk series TapNation’s OpenMic starting 22 April with Célia Hodent
Previously she was director of UX at Epic Games
Microinteractions
Ubisoft's Renaud Forestié on why the small UX things build big
‘Shake it ‘till you make it session kicks off day two of Unite Copenhagen
Ux Reviewer
Former Digit Game Studios UX director opens new consultancy business
Om Tandon departs Star Trek: Fleet Dommand developer; will write articles analysis the UX in free-to-play games
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: Tamatem's Hanin Suradi on data-driven UI/UX for the MENA region
Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 will take place on January 21st to 22nd
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: DIGIT Game Studios' Om Tandon on advanced UX prototyping and finding the fun
Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 will take place on January 21st to 22nd
Serving Up A Storm
Are casual games maturing part two: Lessons from Playrix
Om Tandon breaks down what makes Playrix's portfolio of mobile titles such huge successes
Further Research
User testing firm Player Research expands its services with new lab in Montreal
Former Compulsion and Ubisoft user researcher Morgan Kennedy
The Gamer's Brain
How the rise of UX has brought cognitive science to mainstream game development
Epic's Director of UX Celia Hodent opens the book
Ux Evolution
From Stardom to The Empire: How Glu has evolved the UX in its celebrity games
A brief look through 7 games
Long View
Striking the balance between user experience and monetization
Tapdaq's Ted Nash lays down some rules
A Cat Reborn
Why we ditched "esoteric" UI and fixed poor retention to give Lumo's Cat another life
Steve Stopps on creativity in the right places
Shmup-ing For Success
Eight Pixels Square on the evolution of its accidental shoot-'em up RAID HQ
Co-owner Hugh Binns talks soft launch, UX, and more
Back From Split
5 important things we learned at Reboot Develop 2016
Most significant lessons learned from Croatian game dev conference
Dos And Dont's
The cost of bad UX: why Star Wars: Commander hasn't reached Supercell-level success
Player Research CEO Graham McAllister on UX cardinal sins
Getting Better
Why you should be prepared to throw away half your game
Torulf Jernström is self-improving
Happy Eyeballs
How to respect the user experience during ad monetization
Kabir Mathur on nice ads
New Hue
How the rise of consoles, mobiles and now VR is impacting the role of art in games
Daryl Clewlow takes a moment
The Mobile Traps
The top 5 ways mobile developers are chasing away their own players
UserTesting's Michael Mace on what NOT to do
More Options
How far can your core game stretch?
Torulf Jernström on getting elastic
Fresh Eyes
Zynga's Henry LaBounta on the importance of 'learning to see'
Catching up with a Chief Visual Officer
Monetisation Matters
Video: Making the most of monetisation
Make a plan and strike the right balance
Right Tool
Video: What are the different types of game UX professionals?
Graham McAllister sub-divides
Ux To Ua
Video: UX not UA is the goal for app store success
People like playing good games
Customer Satisfied
How focusing on UX and retention created success for Gram Games' ad-funded 1010!
Making thousands of dollars a day without IAPs
Double Take
You’ve been talking about UX all wrong
Graham McAllister takes to the stage at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki