Posts Tagged ‘Social Gaming Summit’

Wrapping up this year’s series of Social Gaming and Virtual Goods Summits is the Social Gaming Summit East, taking place on December 1st in New York City. Read more about it below. This year has been a dramatic one for social games. Leaders like Zynga have emerged as clear leaders and drawn unprecedented amounts of [...]

AllFacebook Marketing Conference returns to San Francisco on June 28-29! Join us and get a how-to guide for marketing to Facebook’s 800 million users. A full agenda will be announced soon. Keep an eye on our event site for more information. Special early pricing is available for only $249 until this Wednesday, February 15, so register today.

Gareth Davis, the often quoted Platform Manager for Games at Facebook took the stage at Social Gaming Summit London today and illuminated some interesting ideas about Facebook and gaming.

A group of social gaming experts from OMGPOP, Applifier, ZSlide and Wooga addressed probing (to put it mildly) questions from Bret on Social Games about small and medium games developer strategies at this year’s Social Gaming Summit London.

Kristian Segerstrale, one of the founders of Playfish and now the EA Playfish business unit leader, explained that social games have evolved to “turn the camera” on the players, and that Playfish looked to Nintendo for inspiration on how to make games that focus on the players.

In London next week, social games and virtual goods experts from Europe, Asia and North America will convene at the Chelsea Football Club for the Social Gaming Summit + Virtual Goods Summit.

At this year’s Social Gaming Summit, Playfish Co-Founder Sebastien de Halleux discussed how virtual goods sales are affected by holidays, the importance of imbuing games with emotion and more. We caught these clips of his impassioned speeches at the show and decided to post them here. Emotions in games was one of the biggest themes [...]

The second day of SGS2010 kicked off with Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed ventures moderating a panel of social gaming titans. Mark Skaggs of Zynga, Christa Quarles of Playdom, Peter Relan of YouWeb, and Sebastien De Halleux engaged in a lively discussion of how they keep players coming back and what they focus on to increase [...]

Yesterday, leading iPhone games developer ngmoco’s Jason Oberfest discussed Social Games Across Platforms with Kara Swisher, and revealed a lot of interesting insights about the challenges. He talked about payment systems, the split between ads and virtual goods, design decisions on the iPad and more. Read more below.