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• StarTrek Fleet Command has some pretty impressive retention numbers

  It’s not often that I get a PR email containing...

  • Posted 8 months ago
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• Nicholas’s Guessing Game

  Nicholas’s Guessing Game is a thought experiment that makes the...

  • Posted 8 months ago
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• A word about averages

  In service-based games, averages are misleading. Humans tend to understand...

  • Posted 10 months ago
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• The Session and the On-Ramp

  The Pyramid is a framework for the strategy of your...

  • Posted 10 months ago
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• The Core Loop: a motor of retention

  When I first developed the Pyramid, I used the phrase...

  • Posted 10 months ago
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• Retention Layers in Board Games

  I’ve focused on the Retention Layer in video games, but...

  • Posted 11 months ago
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• Words to ban #2: Vanity items

  When creating items for players to purchase, developers sometimes refer...

  • Posted 11 months ago
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• Words to ban #1: Whales

  I hate the term whales. It is a word drawn...

  • Posted 12 months ago
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• Jamie Madigan on how to destroy the games industry, the loot box way.

  Jamie Madigan has a guest post on his Psychology of...

  • Posted 2 years ago
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• Smart return hook from Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire

  PocketGamer.biz has a damning review of the new Final Fantasy...

  • Posted 3 years ago
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