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Charles Cox's Blog   Expert Blogs

Charles N. Cox has worked on games for Sierra Studios, Microsoft, and Sony. He is now the Developer Education Manager at Xbox, and runs his own mobile/tablet game company, 4gency. Charles blogs at http://www.charlesncox.com.

Expert Blogs

Armored Drive Post Mortem: The Hard Road of In-App Purchases  Featured Blogs
Posted by Charles Cox on Sat, 18 May 2013 12:28:00 EDT in Business/Marketing, Smartphone/Tablet
4gency's founder looks back at a first year of lessons as a mobile/tablet developer. Lesson one shows how hard it can be to make money in the arcade genre with in-app purchases.
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Why I'll Never Work on First-Person Shooters Again  Featured Blogs
Posted by Charles Cox on Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:56:00 EDT in Business/Marketing, Console/PC, Production, Design
Having been in the games business for a decade, and having worked on six shooter titles, I'm sure of one thing: we can do better.
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Charles Cox's Comments

Comment In: Armored Drive Post Mortem: The Hard Road of In-App Purchases [Blog - 05/18/2013 - 12:28]

I think managing the business ...

I think managing the business of game data and metrics is sort of a three-course problem, handled by different folks or the same person wearing different hats r n r n1. What questions are the most valuable to answer for your business - CEO/Founder/Bizdev r n2. How to instrument your ...

Comment In: Why I'll Never Work on First-Person Shooters Again [Blog - 04/19/2013 - 06:56]

When I was at the ...

When I was at the studio, it was 80-hour weeks, and I was newly married. It was tough, and I didn 't even have any kids - I can imagine that being so much worse. r n r nI have plenty of thoughts about crunch time , and I 've ...

   

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