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For the past five years I've been in the Games Industry, from working at large AAA studios on multimillion dollar products; to working at small, social game studios on multimillion dollar products.
I have shipped products on every platform. |
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Applying Social Theory to Games  |
| Posted by Justin Nearing on Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:45:00 EDT in
Design,
Social/Online
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| Social games have been improving, but the social mechanics behind these systems have not evolved. In this post, I lay down the foundation of what true social gameplay is, and why you would want to create a true social experience within your product. |
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The (Unused) Social Games Secret Weapon |
| Posted by Justin Nearing on Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:20:00 EDT in
Design,
Social/Online
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| In previous posts I defined "Social Media" as a product that leverages its community. In this post I'll go a bit deeper into how to leverage a community, and how this is a severely underutilized tool in social games. |
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Community-Centric Products: A better term for Social Media |
| Posted by Justin Nearing on Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:10:00 EDT in
Design
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| What the hell does Social Media mean anyways? I hear the term constantly, I use the term more than I should, and yet I’ve never really given much thought into what it actually *means*. In this post I purpose a better term for Social Media. |
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Creating Emotional Attachments to Game Items |
| Posted by Justin Nearing on Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:20:00 EDT in
Design,
Social/Online
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| I designed a collection game in my spare time and wanted to have people really care about the things they were collecting. |
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Story in Social Games |
| Posted by Justin Nearing on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:48:00 EST in
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| In this article we explore Story in social games, and how it can be used to directly grow your game- too bad Story is more of a side-note than anything else these days. |
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Confessions of a QA Tester |
| Posted by Justin Nearing on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:52:00 EST in
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| Two years ago I joined a major development studio as a QA tester. Since then I've seen the economy bottoming out, studio-wide layoffs, a franchise under fire, and a team trying to keep it together. This is a success story of not getting fired. |
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Comment In: The Metrics Aren't the Message [Feature - 03/11/2013 - 09:35]
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@Robert - The main problem ... @Robert - The main problem with RR3 is that the timed gates came too quickly and too hard, blocking content from users who had not yet emotionally invested in the game. However these are just data values that should be easily tuned. The problem is the tuning, not necessarily the ... |
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Comment In: PC is not dead and mobile is shit (with Charts!) [Blog - 01/22/2013 - 01:10]
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Super interesting read, and a ... Super interesting read, and a big kudos for revealing actual numbers. r n r nMy thought is that increased number of stores on PC game portals/your own site/etc. helped drive discovery of your apps. I would suspect that the number of impressions- people coming across your game- is much higher ... |
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Comment In: What's Really Going Down in Vancouver? [Feature - 08/17/2012 - 04:35]
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I have been in the ... I have been in the Vancouver game industry since the start the of global recession, seeing the first crippling hits to EA and how the local industry has grown and adapted in light of new challenges and evolving platforms. Given this perspective, I believe that Vancouver is undeniably the brightest ... |
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Comment In: The Never Ending Industry Delusion [Blog - 08/15/2012 - 02:59]
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Excellent rebuttal. r n r ... Excellent rebuttal. r n r nI would like to point out that Valve has proven the F2P-FPS model with Team Fortress 2. It is an excellent example of transitioning a Pre-paid game into a Free-to-Play game. The result of which has breathed new life into the game and more updates. ... |
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Comment In: The secret to EVE Online's success: It's all bottom-up [News - 07/27/2012 - 03:48]
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Player-driven development sounds intuitive, you ... Player-driven development sounds intuitive, you just have to make sure you strike a balance between what your VIP players are saying and what the data shows all players are doing. The limitations of a council of VIPlayers is that they have a narrow experience. This isn 't to say that ... |
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Comment In: Why Mobile Game Pricing Can Only Go Up [Blog - 07/15/2012 - 05:12]
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Comparing games to other forms ... Comparing games to other forms of media doesn 't really make sense, because the variables for product success are different. The price of user acquisition, the methods of monetary return, the amount of developers pushing out products are different from other forms of electronic media. r n r nI think ... |
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