It was the end of January, and I was told by my fellow classmates at the Kajak Game Development Lab that Wooga was organizing their very first Wooga Game Jam at their office in Berlin, from the 15th to the 17th of March. I thought “this is really cool,” but didn’t really pay much attention…

UMN GDC (Universitas Multimedia Nusantara’s Game Development Club) is a university club where students who are interested in developing digital video games gather, learn, and make digital games. Founded in 2011, UMN GDC has helped many students make 2D and 3D digital games and was finally able to publish one of its game called Tarik…

This is a guest post by Yaniv Nizan who is the CEO and Co-Founder of SOOMLA - the platform for Creating In-App Purchase Stores for Mobile Games. Yaniv is also a writer with articles featured in publications such as: Gamasutra, Codenameone UX Motel and blog.soom.la and a speaker in different industry events. You can follow Yaniv at @y_nizan One of the…

A guest post from Animoca describing research done on the Android tablets. Our series about the most common smartphones and their OS versions in each country generated numerous requests for specific data (yes, we’ll get to Europe soon!). One of the most frequent requests was to issue something on the tablet market. In this post,…

This is a guest post by Yaniv Nizan who is the CEO and Co-Founder of The SOOMLA Project, the platform for Creating In-App Purchase Stores for Mobile Games. You can follow Yaniv at @y_nizan. Since Apple launched its In App Purchase functionality, it has been supporting two types of virtual goods: Consumables and Non-Consumables. With consumable items,…

Dragon Game Studio is a Bali-based game studio founded in 2012 by Jonas and Joan Johnsson, who is also husband and wife. After an amazing cliff-side wedding in Uluwatu, the plan was to move to Bali and settle down in the “Island of the Gods.” There was just something about Bali that mesmerized them and,…

Penka Kouneva was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she began piano lessons at an early age, and wrote music for children’s theater as a teenager. In 1990, she arrived in the US to study composition at Duke University on a graduate fellowship. In 1999, she moved to Los Angeles to begin her career…

A guest post from NativeX on how native advertising is becoming the clear front-runner for mobile games, with 225% higher click-through rates and 142% higher effective cost per thousand impressions. Mobile gaming is one of the fastest growing and most rapidly changing parts of the entertainment industry. In just a couple years, we’ve seen it…

This is a guest post by Yaniv Nizan who is the CEO and Co-Founder of The SOOMLA Project, the platform for Creating In-App Purchase Stores for Mobile Games. Yaniv is also a writer with articles featured in publications such as: Gamasutra, Codenameone UX Motel and blog.soom.la and a speaker in different industry events. You can follow Yaniv…

This is a guest post by Yaniv Nizan who is the CEO and Co-Founder of The SOOMLA Project, the platform for Creating In-App Purchase Stores for Mobile Games. You can follow Yaniv at @y_nizan.  Game Developers for iPhone and Android these days are well aware of the Free 2 Play model and the benefits of applying it…