I'm very proud to announce this a initiative - The SOOMLA List. It's a very simple Idea - Every week or so I hand pick some great articles, news I found and other very useful links about free to play game design, virtual economies and more. This way I can be in touch more directly and engage in conversations about the topics.

If you like reading my blog here so far you will love these emails. You can subscribe to this list or shoot me an email to <yaniv [at] soom [dot] la> and I'll add you manually.

Here is a sample email:

Posts from SOOMLA Blog:

• What do you think about Amazon's Coin in light of Facebook failure with their own credit system? - blog.soom.la/post/43389016027/amazons-global-coin-smart-move-or-doomed-to-fail
• Interview with Primadawn, creator of Lazy Snakes game for Android - http://blog.soom.la/post/42377455109/interview-with-primadawn-creator-of-lazy-snakes
• Analysis of why Clash of Clans economy is so effective - http://blog.soom.la/post/41891152613/clash-of-coins
• 5 Tips if you are looking to Add In-App Purchase - soom.la/add-in-app-purchase

Interesting Conversations from our Facebook page and other Social tools:

• Example for games who went from premium to freemium - https://www.facebook.com/389643294427376/posts/488226191235752
• Announcement of SOOMLA supporting Unity 3.5 - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=491533657571672&set=a.414228805302158.94631.389643294427376&type=1&relevant_count=1
• Lecture I gave at the Shenkar Game Design School - https://speakerdeck.com/yanivnizan/from-virtual-economy-to-actual-revenue

Links we liked:

• Many useful numbers about mobile game development by Dean Takahashi - http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/15/the-deanbeat-the-state-of-free-to-play-mobile-gaming-by-the-numbers/
• 30 publishers for your Mobile game by Guy Bendov - http://guybendov.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/mobile-game-publishers/