UBM Tech - Game Network

My Shopping Cart

[ 0 ] items in cart

View Cart | Checkout

Game Developer Research

Research Reports

Gamasutra

Contractor Listings

GDC Vault

Individual Subscription

GDC Audio Recordings

App Developers Conference 2013

GDC Next 2013

GDC Europe 2013

	GDC 2013
	GDC Online 2012
	GDC Europe 2012
	GDC 2012
	GDC 2011
	GDC 10
	GDC 09
	GDC Austin 08
	GDC Mobile 08
	GDC 08
	GDC Austin 07
	GDC Mobile 07
	GDC 07
	GDC 06
	GDC 05
	GDC 04
	GDC 03
	GDC 01
	GDC 2000 & Before

Newest Item(s)

Why Now Is the Best Time Ever to Be a Game Developer

Ingress: Design Principles Behind Google's Massively Multiplayer Geo Game

Playing with 'Game'

Gathering Your Party with Project Eternity (GDC Next 10)

D4: Dawn of the Dreaming Director's Drama (GDC Next 10)

Using Plot Devices to Create Gameplay in Storyteller (GDC Next 10)

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Making CounterSpy (GDC Next 10)

Luck and Skill in Games

Minimalist Game Design for Mobile Devices

Broken Age: Rethinking a Classic Genre for the Modern Era (GDC Next 10)

Storefront > GDC Vault Store - Audio Recordings > GDC Europe 2013

View larger image

QTY:

Candy Crush Postmortem: Luck in the Right Places
Price	$3.95
Adjustment
Type
Stock	Unlimited
Status
Weight	0 lb, 0 oz
SKU	GDCE13-24716_VCJZ
Statistics

Description

Candy Crush Postmortem: Luck in the Right Places
Tommy Palm | Games Guru, King.com

Location: Europasaal
Date: Monday, August 19
Time: 16:00-17:00
Track: Free to Play Design & Business Summit
Format: Session
Vault Recording: Video

This postmortem will walk the audience through the making of "Candy Crush Saga," one of the most successful casual games in the world. The talk will describe how King removed luck from the game making process, while sprinkling it in balanced proportions throughout the map and levels of the game. The talk will give an updated account of the games success.

Takeaway
This is a postmortem about how Candy Crush Saga came about. From the brainchild of Sebastian Knutsson, Candy Crush saga grew to become one of the biggest cross-platform games in the world, currently with 10 million daily active players. The steps in-between included a small competitive flash game and a social envelope to adjust it to Facebook, with an aggressive cross-platform push onto mobile. The plan was originally to build up a mobile presence during a two year period. But nine months later, Candy Crush Saga was successfully launched on all major mobile devices and had become a hit social game. This presentation outlines the pitfalls, lessons learned, and best practices accumulated along the way.

Intended Audience
The presentation requires a good level of understanding from the audience and will be particularly beneficial for those working within the industry. It also has wider significance to those less focused on the development side of gaming and will be of interest to marketers, business development professionals and investors.

Speaker
Tommy Palm | Games Guru, King.com
With over two decades of experience as a game designer and entrepreneur, Tommy Palm has earned the title "Games Guru" at leading casual social games company, King. He works in the forefront of the company's prevalent cross-platform games initiatives, taking games from social to mobile. Tommy started programming games for Commodore 64 back in 1986 as a hobby until 1999, when he founded Jadestone. Since then, he has been working as concept creator and game designer on more than 10 game titles, including Championship Manager Online, World in War, Karlsson pa Taket (mobile), Dirk Dagger, and Kodo. During the more than 10 years developing mobile games, his team has been awarded nine international awards and numerous nominations - most recently the prominent IMGA and IGF Mobile awards. In 2009, Jadestone's mobile department spawned off into Fabrication Games, where Tommy was president. The company went on to be acquired by King in early 2012. Tommy is a regular collegiate lecturer and frequently contributes articles on trends in social and mobile games. He has also spoken at prominent events, including GDC San Francisco, GDC Online, GDC Europe, Game Connection, E3, and the Cannes Film Festival, among others.

Please leave this field blank.