Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2017
2017-09-19..2017-09-20
Helsinki, Finland
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How to build a games company | Jami Laes | 20m |
Company story: founded 2015, 21 people, about $5M+ revenue, 13M downloads and 400M ad impressions, and credited with inventing the view-to-play model… | ||
| It's not a place, it's a script - Making worlds that mean something | Keith Stuart | 23m |
Novel A Boy Made of Blocks sells 175,000 UK copies and uses Minecraft as a relational tool between father and autistic son, mapping emotional depth to literal… | ||
| How to raise $10 million | Samuli Syvahuoko | 23m |
Speaking at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2017, Sisu Game Ventures' Samuli Syvähuoko offers his tips on how to create a company and raise the funds to take it… | ||
| Rovio's VP of Finance for Games on UA and finance – A match made In heaven | TEEMU RAUTIAINEN | 24m |
Marketplace is huge and costly: ~800,000 games and >750 new games daily, so user acquisition becomes the growth engine; building a hit costs roughly 5 million… | ||
| Superstar Session: A few words from Angry Birds developer Rovio | Wilhelm Taht | 20m |
Rovio frames itself as a games‑first entertainment company with measurable scale: five top games drive about 80% of revenue, 20 live titles, 13 in development… | ||
| 5 things Next Games learned from The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land | Saara Bergström | 19m |
Next Games builds a turn-based tactical combat mobile RPG (XCOM-like) around The Walking Dead IP, starts with Daryl Dixon then adds show characters to lift… | ||
| The hidden potential of learning in games | Lauri Järvilehto | 24m |
Claim: great game design, not gamification, closes the attention gap and teaches deeply. Proof: a particle physics game with CERN is playtested in dozens of… | ||
| nothing matches | ||