$20 | Duration: 3.5 hours | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 48 KHz, 2 Ch | 922 MB

Genre: eLearning | Language: English + Sub | 1 Supplemental Resources

Created by Jason Short | Last updated 8/2017

How to keep players returning to your freemium or ad supported game

What Will I Learn?

Why players play games, and how to satisfy their unique needs

Design a game session with a return trigger

What should you sell with IAP?

Get players to buy that first In App Purchase

Build core game loops, with sessioning, and return triggers

Understand premium currency and economics in F2P games

Understand game mechanics and why you need to think about them

Requirements

Interest in designing free to play (f2p) games for mobile game platforms

You should understand how free to play mobile games work on iOS and Android

You should have played some F2P mobile games

Want to understand Game Mechanics and why they work

Description

This course is designed for developers or game designers working on mobile games. You might be an indie game developer, or part of a professional AAA game team. All that you need is a desire to make your game better, and understand what makes your players return to the game over and over.

We are not going to go into any specific technology or game programming. This is a design course!

We will cover the following topics:

Player Types and what they want

Reward Systems

Core Game Loop, Wait Loop and Grind Loop

How to Keep Players Returning

Triggers - Return, Social, Events

Example Games with deconstructions on why they work (or don't!)

Premium currency

What should you sell using IAP?

How to earn that first purchase from the player

What Game Mechanics work for player retention?

Mobile Game Deconstructions:

Scale

BBTAN

and more depending upon student feedback

Who is the target audience?

Indie Game developers

Anyone who wants to know how freemium games work

Students building their first game

Hobyists wanting to build engaging free to play games