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  • It’s Good to be King in Mobile Games #MGF2014
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    It’s Good to be King in Mobile Games #MGF2014

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    I am not talking about the makers of Candy Crush Saga, though I guess I could be. Spending the day at the Mobile Games Forum in London, the most obvious observation is this: to be successful in games in 2014, you need to have either have a lot of luck or an even greater amount of money.  How much?  I have heard through the grapevine that some ad campaigns are starting at $500,000.  Yes, I just said $500,000. And that is just for one ad campaign at launch.The problem is that with so many games being released, it's very hard to be discovered.  The best way is to get in the top lists of Apple's App Store or Google Play, but once you are in that top list you're spending a lot of the money you're making to stay on top. Plus you're crowding everyone else out and making it more expensive for them in the process.
  • Building a Game Around User Customization
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    Building a Game Around User Customization

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    User customization is the most important tool for creating player narratives. And I'm not talking about just hats and colored shirts. Remember in Deus Ex where you A) roasted those soldiers with your Willie Peter rockets, B) took out those soldiers by luring them into your minefield, C) snuck by all those soldiers without firing a shot or Z)...
  • The economics of mobile game publishing
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    The economics of mobile game publishing

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    Supercell's recent $100mm secondary financing round raises some interesting questions about how mobile game developers capitalize on a hit game. A title in the Top 10 grossing chart for the US can, as evidenced by a number of recent high-profile examples, generate upwards of $500,000 per day.
  • Super Crate Box dev offers tips on how to succeed with iOS
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    Super Crate Box dev offers tips on how to succeed with iOS

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    Super Crate Box's launch last week went over pretty big, thanks in large part to the fact that the game is excellent. It also didn't hurt that a lot of very big websites provided some very high-profile coverage. It's probably safe to say that Super Crate Box is a definite success story for developer Vlambeer, and the studio's business and development guru Rami Ismail took a little time to talk with indiegames.com about how his company managed to score an iOS home run. iOS developers, you may want to take some notes.