#live ops

[scottishgames]

Chilli Connect Acquired By Unity Technologies

Chilli Connect Acquired By Unity Technologies

While Scotland’s game developer may have been a little quiet in 2019, the companies creating games technology have clearly been hard at work.

Only days after the news that Edinburgh’s Delta DNA has been acquired by the leading games platform, Unity, Dundee’s Chilli Connect has also been snapped up.

If you’re not familiar with Chilli Connect, the company was spun out of Tag Games in 2016. It…

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[playistic]

Lessons for game developers from a lemonade stand

GUEST: Back in Norman Rockwell’s America, kids weren’t afraid to take a chance on going into business for themselves. Rockwell’s iconic “Lemonade Stand” image showed a whole generation of children that to succeed in business, all they had to do was hang out a sign, and a whole community of lemonade lovers (or sympathetic neighbors) would […] https://goo.gl/TV04a0 #Playistic

[wildstaronline]

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[iteratingfun]

Game Live Ops (slides from Casual Connect)

It was fun to talk about live operations, specifically time limited* content and mechanics, at this year's Casual Connect.

I've uploaded my slides here, which cover:

The different types of live ops 

Why game developers should care?

Some industry examples, including one of our own

Lessons learned

* new levels and missions etc also falls under the topic of live ops but the slides focussed in on time limited content. The talk itself was only 20 minutes which was a shame as it's a fascinating topic and lots of interesting things to go into (eg- pros and cons of different contest mechanics etc)

Any great examples of live ops out there? Share on email or twitter