Anyone who has experienced design by committee or simply HiPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), should by now be aware that there’s a better way to make those decisions. That method is using the real data supplied by...

Free-to-play game design is iterative, responsive and agile. That changes the nature of the programming skills and attitudes that you need. What are the attributes that you look for in a game developer when recruiting?

During the week of GDC 2013, Nicholas will be offering a number of GAMESbrief Surgery sessions in San Francisco – a chance to have a one- or two-hour one-on-one consultation about your game and your business, tapping...

Veteran developer and 22cans founder Peter Molyneux is to deliver the keynote address at the upcoming F2P Summit, which runs on April 18th in London. Molyneux made a late but attention-grabbing entry to the world of F2P...

In this article I wanted to look at the main risks of litigation that Games Developers face. Intellectual property was covered in previous posts (here and here) and if we ignore “generic” claims, such as falling down...