Archive for the ‘Sandbox’ Category

1. A $50k IOS game grossing $1m per month

   April 25, 2012

   Have you heard of Design This Home? I hadn’t. But it’s in the top 5 of the Top Grossing Apps in the UK, Canada, Australia and Ireland, with 300,000 DAUs and is “set to gross $1m per month worldwide”. Not bad for a game made by three full-time team members and a cost of around [...]

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   Posted in: Sandbox

   Tagged with: app minis, design this home, f2p, iOS

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2. 300 apprenticeships or Internships in creative industries up for grabs. (PAID!)

   April 20, 2012

   This looks like an interesting initiative from the IPA. They are running a programme to allow 300 people to find work experience in creative industries, ranging from advertising agencies to games companies such as Square Enix and Zynga. Successful applicants can either get an apprenticeship or an internship, both of which appear to be paid. [...]

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   Posted in: Sandbox

   Tagged with: creative industries, creative pioneers, internship, ipa

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3. Steam is beginning to embrace Free-to-play

   March 26, 2012

   Steam is beginning to embrace free-to-play games in what has been a bastion of upfront paid-for games.
   So it is incredibly pleasing to see a game I have been working on for nearly three years become the second most-popular free-to-play game on Steam.

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   Posted in: Sandbox

   Tagged with: firefly, free-to-play, steam, stronghold kingdoms

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4. GDC stats: Please can you help me

   March 14, 2012

   GDC is always full of great information. This year, free-to-play was the dominant topic, with many sessions focused on how this business model is evolving. I wasn’t able to attend all the sessions (there were between 5 and 10 sessions happening at any one time). So I need your help. If you attended a session, [...]

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   Posted in: Sandbox

   Tagged with: free-to-play, gdc, help, statistics

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5. Woohoo, GAMESbrief hits 10,000 views on slideshare

   March 12, 2012

   You may not know that many of the presentations I have given as GAMESbrief are available to view, either on the GAMESbrief Presentations page or on Slideshare. If you don’t, a lot of other people do, because we have just reached of 10,000 views, something that Slideshare says “only a very few Slideshare users achieve” [...]

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   Posted in: Sandbox

   Tagged with: presentations, slideshare

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6. Get 50% off How to Publish a GAmE in honour of World Book Day

   March 1, 2012

   To celebrate World Book Day, you can get 50% off How to Publish a Game by using coupon code worldbookday on the payment screen. To take advantage of this offer, go to http://www.gamesbrief.com/2011/10/how-to-publish-a-game-2/ I hope you enjoy it.

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   Posted in: Sandbox

   Tagged with: books, how to publish a game

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7. Dear Jas: Legal advice for self-publishing

   February 2, 2012

   Great news, everyone! From now on, we’ll be featuring monthly guest posts by Jas Purewal of Gamer/Law. He’ll be answering your questions about the legal side of games development, particularly for small businesses and self-publishing. If you have any questions for Jas, give him a shout.

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   Posted in: Sandbox

   Tagged with: dear jas, gamerlaw, games law, jas purewal, legal

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