GCAP 2017

Are you hoping to release game updates and make money from them five years after your game has launched?

If so, the decisions you make now may come back to haunt you, whether your business model is free-to-play, subscription or premium with DLC. Luckily, “games as a service” have been around for a while and some games have already crossed the 5-year-old mark which gives us a chance to learn from their 20/20 hindsight.

Drawing from hands-on experience, this talk lays out game design considerations and habits that we wish we’d known in the early days of long-running games. They’ll help you create the right ripples through the lifetime of your game, and Future You will be thankful for it.