Lately, I’ve been receiving some questions from multiple people on LinkedIn and other platforms regarding being a game analyst, or a data analyst or product analyst working in the videogames industry.
It’s not farfetched to conclude that videogames gained increased importance in peoples’ lives …
Going through school in Portugal means spending some time studying the epic poem Os Lusiadas, similar to the time-tested Odyssey or Aeneid. A few days ago it struck me that this ancient art form held many good ideas to help create better games and products. The main areas where Epic Poems can teach…
2020 started with a novel corona virus outbreak in China and a direct consequence of the overall awareness about this topic has increased the organic reach for F2P mobile games like Plague Inc. like this Verge article reports (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/27/21083737/plague-inc-developer-coronav…
2020 started with a novel corona virus outbreak in China and a direct consequence of the overall awareness about this topic has increased the organic reach for F2P mobile games like Plague Inc. like this Verge article reports (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/27/21083737/plague-inc-developer-coronav…
When we have an open world MMO, it’s crucial to be on top of its virtual game economy. It’s human nature to try to exploit the system, and your players will test the limits that you build for your world.
The sigmoid (also known as the logistic function) is an ally when it comes to balancin…
Making good games is hard. Making games that yield a profit is even harder.
In the mobile F2P industry, we hear about KPIs ad nauseam. The mobile industry has refined the art of game making by embracing its love with data.
Data analysis is an inherent part of mobile F2P in 2019. Otherwise, h…
We all know that inflation in a game economy can cause a lot of problems. Among which:
- Decreased need to spend money on in-app purchases to obtain game items/currency
- Increased difficulty for new players to be able to compete with older players
- Lack of feeling of meaningful prog…
