Sent on October 15th 2021. If you aren’t a subscriber to EGD News, you can subscribe here. We are in the era of live service games. Ten years of this era, I’m baffled by entrants to gaming who don’t grasp the utmost importance of keeping players in your games for...

Guillaume Verlinden is the Managing Director...

When I went into startups in 2005, I was employed as a programmer and getting a monthly salary of about 3,000 euros. I didn’t have many capabilities to save up for rainy days, but I always felt that losing my financial safety was a gamble worth taking. I wanted to do a startup so badly that I could take the risk. The worst that could happen was bankruptcy, and I could at any point start doing programming work again.

I’ve previously talked about killing a game in soft launch, but I wanted to revisit the topic after going back to a blog post from a few years ago from a fellow Finnish game developer.

In this episode, I'm talking with Ilya...

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca.

I'm talking with Alli Ottarsson, who is a...

Sent on September 17th 2021. If you aren’t a subscriber to EGD News, you can subscribe here. 🌱 From Pre-seed to Seed Before diving into this piece, I want to define pre-seed in some terms. A pre-seed round can be an angel round, a VC round. It doesn’t...

In this episode, I’m talking with Elad Levy, who is the founder and CEO of Dive, which is a new kind of game analytics provider.

Logan is the co-founder and CEO of Role, a tabletop role playing company that is taking tabletop RPGs online. In this discussion with Logan, we talk about his founding journey to build Role, how tabletop RPGs are transitioning online, through the rise of online platforms, and his experiences from building Role as a startup, building the team, fundraising, and many other topics.

It was August 2007. I was sitting in the lobby of a London VCs office, with glass walls and doors, with people there looking quite busy.

It’s Joakim here. Greetings from Helsinki! I have one quick announcement to make. A relatively new mobile game studio in Berlin, Germany, that I work with is looking for a CTO, with a possibility to join as co-founder. If you know of people looking for a role like...

This is my fourth Ask Me Anything podcast episode, where I answer people’s questions related to game studios, fundraising, and all other entrepreneurship-related stuff.

I recently wrote a post on LinkedIn about my thoughts on founding a game studio right now.

Martin Macmillan is the founder and CEO of...

Why are people picking up certain games from the App Store? And when you are developing your live game and running live-ops, how do you make sure you have the right offering?

This week I did a webinar with Anton Gorodetsky from InvestGame and Micha Katz from Aream & Co and we talked about the numbers from H1 of 2021 for the games industry. The industry saw explosive growth in terms of volume and size of M&As, private investments and IPOs.

We often hear this question coming up: “how should I evaluate the viability of a game idea as I’m starting to work on one?” It’s an essential question since you don’t want to end up spending several months developing something that won’t work. And the worst thing about building a game without any early validation is that you often don’t understand why it’s not working when the game is ready.

I’m talking with Klaas Kersting, who is the Founder and CEO of Phoenix Games, a new kind of European gaming conglomerate, with six games studios under its belt. In this discussion with Klaas, we talk about luck and taking advantage of lucky moments, how the mobile games industry has evolved, what characterizes teams that can go from broke to hugely profitable, and what well-done mergers and acquisitions look like in gaming.