Product

Most New Games Still Face-Plant — How Player Insights Can Flip the Script

Key take-aways from my conversation with Sean Vesce, Co-Founder & CEO of LiveAware

7 hrs ago •

Deconstructing Overwatch 2 Battle Pass Design

Players have mixed reactions to Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 Battle Pass. Is the rigid reward structure to blame, and what can be done to fix it? Let’s break…

Feb 25 •

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Production Lessons: How to Build a Better Game

Critical lessons on navigating uncertainty, scaling teams, and driving success in modern game development - insights from Building Better Games' Ben…

Feb 18 •

Cracking the 4X Code: First Fun and RiverGame’s Billion-Dollar Strategy

Inside First Fun and RiverGame's billion-dollar strategy that's reimagining how mobile games are built and marketed.

Feb 11 •

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🦉 AACT to Win!: A foundational model for success

I describe how we totally screwed up our development and how are making changes to work better as a team and to operate more efficiently and effectively

Mar 26, 2024 •

🎙️ How to be a great product manager

My "4Ps PM Operating System" is a framework to help you think about how to build competency and effectiveness over your career

Feb 24, 2024 •

The Path to Mastery: How to Become a Kensei (剣聖)

Before Elon Musk, David Goggins, and Steph Curry there was Miyamoto Musashi

May 16, 2022 •

Winning as a PM: Skills vs. Personality

What are the skills and kind of personality required to be a winning product manager?

Mar 14, 2022 •

On Rooster Coops and Rise of The White Tiger: India F2P Games Conference

Links to all India F2P conference sessions!

Oct 11, 2021 •

On Structural Advantage

How the new winners in the gaming industry will destroy lazy incumbents

Aug 23, 2021 •

Designing for Emotion

What Western F2P Game Designers Don't Understand

Jul 19, 2021 •

How to Build the Amazon of Game Companies

Today at $1.3T in market capitalization, Amazon is the most valuable company in the world.

Jun 11, 2020 •

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