Dropping Out
"If someone doesn't get the feature we had, I don't think they'd be able to sell more than 100 units"
Catching up with Creative Head Ankush Madad at NGDC 2016
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Now playing: Tommy Palm on Kingdom Rush Frontiers
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
Super Mario Done
Don't expect Super Mario Run to compete with Pokemon GO, says Sensor Tower
92% of all games launched in Q3 2016 were free-to-play
Mobile Mavens
What do mobile developers think of Super Mario Run's premium $9.99 price?
Is Nintendo jumping too high with the cost?
New Platform, Same Nintendo
Why Super Mario Run is an exciting moment for mobile and premium games
A landmark moment
Minute To Win It
Three people, 30,000 sales in the first month, and played by PewDiePie: the making of 60 Seconds!
Robot Gentleman reflect on the post-apocalyptic indie hit
The Saga Concludes
From paperbacks to touchscreens: the making of Sorcery!
Creative Director Jon Ingold reflects on the four-part epic
Free To Paid
AlphaPit developer on going premium after $240 lifetime revenue from ad-supported free-to-play
Shane McCafferty on ditching F2P for premium
Indie Mavens
Are paid apps dead or is there still life in premium mobile games for indies?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Nearly Free-to-play
Top Indian indie games selling at $0.15 apiece as part of Indian App Store's Independence Week
Four Indian Mavens featured
Jurassic Going Premium
Why Bebopbee shifted from F2P to premium for Jurassic GO - Dinosaur Snap Adventure
CEO Rajeev Nagpal explains all
"craft Games Studio"
Monument Valley lead designer founds Mountains, a new Melbourne games studio
Three-person team focused on premium mobile games
Happy Valley
Two years and 26 million downloads on, Monument Valley has generated $14.3 million
73% revenue comes from iOS
Labour Of Love
Two years of cancer and crafting: The making of Crashlands
Butterscotch Shenanigan's Seth Coster on hard years
Coming Soon
Mediocre on new game DIRAC and playtesting the social way
Swedish indie looks forward to a big 2016
Harder Than It Looks
Square Enix Montreal's Patrick Naud on transitioning from triple-A console to mobile dev
New tricks
Putting The Pieces Together
Howdunnit: The making of Her Story
Sam Barlow talks inspiration
Forced Into F2p
Crescent Moon founder Josh Presseisen on the quiet death of premium games
New York indie increasingly embracing F2P
Super Spider Sequel
2 years, 20 contributors, and "alarming" sales - The making of Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon
Tiger Style on pushing the boundaries of mobile plausibility
How He Dunnit
Her Story dev Sam Barlow on how the innovative detective game found an audience
Sam Barlow interviewed
Going It Alone
Boomlagoon founder Tuomas Erikoinen goes solo with Part Time Monkey
Former CCO steps down to pursue indie dev
Back To Basics
Why three-man-indie Framebunker is going iOS, paid and niche core
Nicholas Francis and Charles Hinshaw's vision
Staying Premium?
Square Enix reveals stylised puzzler Lara Croft Go for mobile
Tomb Raider in the style of Hitman Go
Kalypso's First Baby
Right place, right time, right price: the making of Crowntakers
The story behind Kalypso's first mobile game
Big Bucks
Premium on mobile still not dead, says late entrant Kalypso
Marcus Behrens is backing the premium business model
My Store My Rules
App Store featuring of CSR Racing IAP pack underlines promotion of iOS-exclusive paid content
Releases from Kabam, Ubisoft and Warners ignored
Bouncing Bean
Coming on leaps and bounds: the making of Bean Dreams
Kumobius on the development of their paid iOS platformer
Pay Once & Play
Apple promotes games without in-app purchases
App Store differentiation
Stateside
Learning from Taylor Swift: Your game is worthless but you can give it value
Welcome to mobile gaming in 2014
Mobile Mavens
Was it okay for ustwo to charge for Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores?
Or should it have been a free release?
Opinion
Reaction to Monument Valley's Forgotten Shores IAP shows mobile gaming at its worst
Nothing wrong with paying to play
Interview
We're trying to build respect with our players, explains inkle's Jon Ingold
A premium trip
Interview
Madfinger's Marek Rabas on why F2P games need to focus on emotions not challenges
A freemium defence
Apple analytics: 66.3 percent of all App Store software is freemium
Average price of a game is $0.74
Interview
Koch Media CEO on releasing a $5 2GB point-and-click adventure for iOS
Dr. Klemens Kundratitz believes in premium
Pg Connects
Frogmind: Badland did as well as a paid game can do, we're "interested" in F2P
Amount of revenue premium games make is falling
Stateside
Stateside: Why choose between F2P and Premium when you can have both?
An unnecessary choice
Is F2P the only way? $3.99 Out There was "profitable 3 weeks after release"
Developer Michael Peiffert waves the premium flag