Loot box legislation
Loot boxes are subject to legislation in some countries; other countries are debating legislation. What is a loot box? Wikipedia…
The internal economics of a popular Minecraft server
Alice Maz writes about how she mastered the economics of Minecraft: I started on my server with only a rudimentary…
Top Free-to-Play Monetization Tricks
The Coercive Monetization Model: how to extract money from Free-to-play gamers: A coercive monetization model depends on the ability to…
All your gamers are gold
CoinLab: Tapping the GPU mining potential of gamers. CoinLab Attracts $500,000 in Venture Capital for Bitcoin Projects Seattle based Bitcoin…
Big money in social betting games
Games and gambling and social media are combining in profitable new ways: Crowdpark, a startup developer focused on social betting…
Scurvy Dogs: Pirates and Privateers Sail the Seas
Darren Gendron, who had never designed a board game, has just designed Scurvy Dogs: Pirates and Privateers Sail the Seas.…
Use Game Mechanics to Reward Your Customers
“Countless start-ups are incorporating game-design strategies, hoping to eventually grow revenue off of consumer data, or by using a combination…
Career Colleges, Toxic Choices
From a Seattle Times editorial: For-profit colleges have successfully marketed a compelling story in which they star front and center…
Synergon, the BLARP From Hell
Synergon: “Where dreams come to die” Synergon was conceived as a satire of office culture and corporate-speak, but expressed in…
Sons of Pong
In the beginning was Pong. And in the beginning it stood alone. But not for long …. In September 1972,…