Am absolutely amazing talk. so much good information about indie dev with a team.
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Insanely nervous but also very excited to be on the schedule for the first time for a conference that I've been to for almost a decade now.
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Young: Partners will have their own branding and access to ngmoco's tools. @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Young: ngmoc commissioning games, publishing, and this summer open our platform to partners @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Young: Platform II Friends followers, social goals, cross promotional Referrals and rewards. @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Young: important to track analytics, live tuning, drop in new levels silently, promote other games networkwide @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Young: Best games: audience appeal, execution, native. @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc <-but where's the FUN??!!
Young: 11 months 12 worlds 148 levels 40 hours of gameplay. Developed less than on another console. @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
iPhone Life cycles are different. Rolando by Hand Circus 4 worlds 36 levels. Free 5 levels every few weeks. @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Young: Looks for indie's with super powers: such as Spin from Secret Exit Want to build long term relationships @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Gamemaking has changed. Never better time to be an indie. Gap of job security has changed. @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Take iPhone to next level need to take advantage of every surface: contacts, gps, camera. @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Live Fire: touch anywhere, shake, friends list to invite to help in game, purchase rocket launcher. @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Game developers need to bring these features together. Demo of Live Fire FPS from 3.0 release @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
What's next: social features permeate all the apps on the store not just a category. @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc <Agree!
If Nintendo made the iPhone it would be progressive, have user's context in mind, always on, with you connected @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
PSP feature comparison looked like it would beat the DS, but DS crushed the PSP with unique features experiences @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Showing Star Defense for iPhone. Richer graphics, and use of touch to play Tower Defense @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Quality of iPhone games better than similar generation of other consoles. @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc
Challenge w/pricing, but 30M people to install and download applications to the iPHone. @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk
800M downloads from the App store, over 25K apps available, 165 apps released per day for iPhone @ngmoco #gdc09 #gdctalk gdc