Sebastian Deterding is a good speaker and thinker on gamification. He has just posted a comprehensive demolition of Gabe Zichermann’s Gamification by Design: Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps . Sebastian’s review is worth reading, if...

Together with Nic Brisbourne of The Equity Kicker / DFJ Esprit, I am writing a series of 50 questions you should ask when raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year, after which...

I’m running another of my masterclasses on How to Make Money from Social Games on 13th October in Central London. If you enjoy GAMESbrief, it’s a chance to meet the man behind it (that’ll be me) and...

In this post I will cover the other key economic terms; liquidation preference and anti-dilution, the most important control terms; board structure and protective provisions, and then finish with a few words on exclusivity and cost. ...

Last year, I used Jagex as evidence that free pays. (See Free doesn’t work? Try telling that to Jagex making £38m from one free game, RuneScape) I’ve just dug into their accounts again. And it looks as...

There is a battle royal brewing over the best way to market your indie game. Should you learn how to do launch marketing like the big boys? Go all data-centric with metrics-led marketing? Or build a permission...

TechCrunch this morning posted a no-nonsense guide to the different business models in freemium, and some common misconceptions that people have about the way freemium works. It’s aimed more at B2B applications than B2C, but it is...