Hyper Hippo Entertainment
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Unplayable Encounters with the Anthropocene: Rethinking Scale and Agency in Game Studies
Paolo Ruffino's paper critically examines the dominant approaches to studying videogames in relation to the Anthropocene and proposes an alternative framework centred on non-scalability.
- Ruffino argues that the dominant approaches to games and the Anthropocene, the instrumental (games as tools for pro-environmental behaviour) and the representational (games depicting nature), share an unexamined assumption that ecological messages scale up through repeated exposure to shift player behaviour at population level.
- The paper contends this scalability paradigm offers false reassurance that the climate crisis is being addressed through games, when it may not be.
- Drawing on Anna Tsing's non-scalability and friction, Timothy Morton's hyperobjects and subscendence, and Joanna Zylinska's minimal ethics of the Anthropocene, the author proposes studying meaningful game engagement as situated, contradictory encounters that resist aggregation into unified political messages.
How Hyper Hippo's Live Ops Operations Maintain its Success in Different Cultures and Locales
Hyper Hippo Entertainment emphasizes the necessity of a robust global strategy for mobile game developers, particularly as growth in traditional North American, UK, and Australian markets slows compared to emerging regions.
- Developers must prioritize expansion into emerging markets like India, China, and Latin America, as growth in traditional regions like North America, the UK, and Australia continues to slow.
- India represents a significant growth opportunity for mobile developers, with 20 million new users entering the Google Play ecosystem every month.
- Successful global scaling requires a unified, scalable backend infrastructure that supports diverse front-end experiences while avoiding the operational overhead of reinventing core systems.