Roger Dickey’s Hacks for Game Monetization. Roger Dickey is the creator of Mafia Wars, one of the most successful social games of all time, and learned game monetization strategy during his time as a GM of multiple games and international product advisor at Zynga.
At our Money Talks event in San Francisco, Roger dropped some serious knowledge that showed how the leading social game companies maximize their game monetization. You can watch the video below, or read our cliff notes to get a quick overview of the best social game monetization strategies he shared. Betable - Real-money, monetization platform for games & apps. Welcome to the gold rush. Features - Virtual Goods - An Excerpt from Social Game Design: Monetization Methods and Mechanics. Virtual Goods - An Excerpt from Social Game Design: Monetization Methods and Mechanics [This text, on the crucial aspects of virtual goods design, is an extract from the ninth chapter of Social Game Design: Monetization Methods and Mechanics, by Tim Fields (Certain Affinity) and Brandon Cotton (Portalarium).
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