Oscar Clark's Rocky Horror Show Mobile Game Dev Pecha Kucha

what osar no Strang danger here you go I would like if I may to take you on a strange Journey using The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a parable for making premium games if you haven't heard of The Rocky Horror Picture Show it's time you went and watched it so it was great when it first began we start out with a great team with passion focus and if we're lucky sometimes even a determined effort to regain our Artistic integrity we are however building a creature a creature that has life itself and it is our job as the creatives as the passionate game designers to embe it with a spark of creation and sometimes we manage it sometimes we manage to produce something

remarkable but as we embark on development we sometimes have to make compromises we have to change from our deliberate plans we have to throw open the Sonic oscillator and step up the reactor power three more points of course we can do that in unity we when we get to reveal the game to the players for the first time the sord of dles is hanging over our heads will the game turn out how we expected or might Rocky will it turn out to be a bit of a d my T that was c not as good as right and of course we have to understand our players and this of course is graad Major and his fiance Janet wi two Young Ordinary healthy kids exploring the ju the jubilant world of that games we have

to make sure that we understand how they will react to the game because sometimes it can be a little unexpected when we show them our favorite Obsession we need to know that they will be receptive we need to know that we can tget appropriately and communicate to them with the right tools at the right place CU their reaction might be something different it's not just good enough to have some hunting lodge for weirdos players have to feel at home if we're going to keep them coming back keeping them coming back is Stu so important but actually what's really fascinating is that no matter what your game you'll be surprised by some many people who play even the most unlikely people turn out to have an obsession with your game and they play

we don't always get the right first time at Edie certain value charm no muscle if you manage to get your players attention and only if then we need to make sure we nurture that experience we need to make sure that they feel connected have to Thrill them chill them fulfill them but one thing cannot be ignored by the very Act of play by their engagement with our experience their whole perspective will change they will adapt they will their behavior will be expanded their minds will be expanded and we have to know what it will take to turn them on to

more more more we don't just want a one-time daer we want to create a loyal relationship with superstars of Engagement super engaged individuals playing together but somebody should be told myo hasn't been controled success has a way of making even the best of us get carried away with our hearts pumping and our blood will sing we can't get carried away we have to understand what we can't get too obsessed by the Numbers we have to understand what it is we're doing we can't just wildly spend money on swimming pools in our enthusiasm for further success we can to too easily lose focus looking to squeeze every single scent cannibalizing the enjoyment of our players as Frankie says

another slice of moodo if anyone you have to know the FM to get that drun well don't get hot and fluster use a bit of mustard take your time to understand what's happening to your players focus on what they value and perhaps we can keep them playing together forever well how sentimental and those little presumption of you all players eventually churn get over it unless we are prepared for that departure our game will suffer we have to understand the player experience we have to be prepared for it and then make sure we build our companies on our experiences accordingly because too many companies fail even after initially promising downloads far too often your mission is a failure you lost out to EXP

extreme but I'm not your new Commander because at the end of the day failure happens and sometimes so does success but if we want to keep making games we have to be prepared to make the right changes and it's just a jump to the left and a step to the right and let's do the time warp again thank you remember the Woodstock analogy told me so um