Friday, June 5, 2015

Windward is what happens when Sid Meier says it's ok to 'copy' his game

When Sid Meier spoke at GDC one year about the virtues of borrowing ideas from other games, Michael Lyanshenko asked him if he could "copy" Sid Meier's Pirates!. Meier said yes, so he did. ...



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Blog: App keywords are not dead

"Why should you listen to us? We have been able to get over 9 million players to play our mobile games without any platform feature or paid UA, only on the strength of ASO and a little cross promotion." ...



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Indie lessons from the Fallout 4 announcement

"It's my belief that while small game studios can't -- and shouldn't -- emulate the marketing strategies of the AAA houses, we can still learn from whatever campaign happens to be rolling out all over the internet." ...



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