This Week In The Business_ The Navy SEALs Of Game Development

QUOTE | “We’re looking at it as kind of the Navy SEALs of game development training.” – Veteran game designer and director Warren Spector, talking about the new academic program he’s creating at the University of Texas in Austin(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ QUOTE | “It’s a good lesson for the indies out there – when the business is hard, trust the players.” – David Chomard of Little Worlds Studios, talking about their ‘Kickfailer’ effort to save their studio by getting fans to contribute QUOTE | “There’s been such a gold rush for free-to-play right now that is driving… developers like us to focus on money instead of making great game content.” – Ted Morris, executive producer at Petroglyph, talking about why game publishing should be driven by fun and not sales QUOTE | “Without creating healthy independent game companies, then we’re going to constantly be in the same rut… seeing the same stuff over and over again.” – Versus Evil general manager Steve Escalante, talking about what it’s like to publish indies in the self-publishing era. STAT | 2.2% – Percentage of free-to-play mobile game users who ever pay anything for the games, according to Swrve; some 46% of the revenue came from only 0.22% of the players, and 53% of spending happened in the first 7 days QUOTE | “We also have a number of other franchises that people may not typically think about as eSports opportunities.” – EA CEO Andrew Wilson, talking about the continuing growth in eSports and how some of EA’s non-sports titles have an opportunity there STAT | 70% – Amount of connected Grand Theft Auto V players that use Grand Theft Auto Online, according to TakeTwo CEO Strauss Zelnick; GTA Online continues to generate revenue, and Zelnick calls it “the gift that u31 ทางเข้า keeps on giving.” QUOTE | “It’s a double-edged sword. If you upset them or turn them off, you’re just not going to get anywhere.” – Bob Holtzman of Squad, talking about the importance of community to their game Kerbal Space Program QUOTE | “I don’t know if people really know exactly what they want. I guess that’s true of a lot of industries, but I mean this one in particular.” – IGDA head Kate Edwards, talking about what she’s trying to do with IGDA and some of the difficulties involved STAT | 5 to 10 million – Number of Oculus Rift sales that Wargaming CEO Victor Kislyi wants to see before supporting the platform; Kislyi also notes that 75% of Wargaming’s 75 million players “will never, ever pay us a penny.” QUOTE | u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ “We don’t believe in virtual currency for kids.” – Sagi Schliesser, CEO of TabTale, talking about their approach to kid’s games and how they turn out 20 apps a month STAT | 425 million – Number of paid mobile downloads for Tetris; that doesn’t include the game’s free-to-play versions or the 70 million-plus boxed versions