A relevant GDC presentation

[Halcyon]

Hello all,

In 2019 the Path of Exile team gave a GDC conference talk in San Francisco.  For those neckbeards among us, GDC was the pivot point between mud admins on the kanga.nu email list becoming MMO producers in 2000-2003.  More recently, 2014-2016 presentations define modern game monetization and why the mobile app market is what it is.   There are also game design post mortems from a surprising amount of Tier A and B MMO offerings.

I think there are some relevant points about release cycles, managing player retention, etc, as a small game studio.   The crunchy bits are between 8min and 20min on this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM_5S55jUzk&t=1024s

[Windstorm]

https://writing-games.com/how-to-improve-player-retention-text-games/

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