Adam Clare

Presentations from GDC 2014 have started to be put online at the GDC Vault. The first ones I came across were related to free to play (F2P) games which is sort of fitting since I recently posted about F2P “whales”.

Here’s a roundup from the GDC Vault on F2P strategies:

Monetization Lessons From Asian F2P Games
- This presentation provides exactly what the title suggests. The importance of chase item balancing is integral to success.
Acquisition for F2P Games on the Web
- If your F2P game is playable in a web browser how do you even get players? This presentations answers that question. The most important thing is a low-resistance and well designed user experience for getting people to sign up.
Balancing Monetization to Succeed in the F2P MMO Space
- Treat what you’re providing more as a service than as a product. Don’t go straight for the cash. From GDC Europe 2013
5 Key Best Practices in Free-to-Play Gaming
- Pictured above, this presentation focused on engaging players. From GDC Europe 2013

Gnomes are wonderful little creatures who are always up to something. In my recently released game, Gnome Oppressor, you can play as a flying gnome who just loves to fly.

This game is released under the Prototype banner of Wero Creative. The Prototype banner is how we’re going to distinguish our experimental games from our polished games. We believe that it’s better to have our games out there being played than to have them stagnate on our computers.

The best part of game design is that I’ve already found some major bugs post-release and will be submitting an update to the App Store by the end of the day.

It’s an endless flying game in which the difficulty ramps up the longer you play. You can read about the design behind the game in an earlier post: #1GAM January: Gnome Oppressor