Monday Mobile Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mark Woo
Join Mark, David and Charles as they get into talking about the latest mobile games and take deep dives into mobile game design every Monday night.
In this week's episode Mark, David and Charles discuss Nexon Games Durango Wildlands and think about what MMORPGs will rise in mobile gaming.
In this week's episode, Mark and David visits Professor Charles in Cambridge next to the Thames river to discuss how, what, why, and when to write Feature Design docs.
In this week's episode, Mark, Charles and David discuss their what they see in the current 2019 landscape of mobile gaming and any trends that might come in the near future!
In this week's episode, Mark, Charles and David discuss their favourite mobile games of 2018.
Can you guess what they are?! Listen to find out!
In this week's extra long episode, Mark, Charles and David discuss Epic Seven, a new RPG mobile game by Smilegate.
Topics include: Juicy Animations, Retention and Grossing data, NA vs. Korean Market, UI flow, Knowing your Demographic, Discord engagement and more!
Monday Mobile Podcast Published by Mark Woo · Just now · In this week's episode Mark, Charles, and David discuss some innovative gacha ideas!
Topics include: Gachas, Feature Design, Monetization, and more!
In this week's episode Mark and David discuss EA's and Redwood Studio's Command and Conquer Rivals, soft launched and beta.
Topics include: Aesthetics, Use of IP, UI, UX, Game play, Monetization, and more!
In this week's episode, Mark, Charles and David wrap up their epic discussion on Dragalia Lost!
Topics include: Live Ops, Events, Gacha, Retention, Coversion, Monetization and more!
In this week's episode, Mark, Charles and David continue their epic discussion from Nintendo Mobile Games specifically to Dragalia Lost. 30 minutes wasn't enough so this will be another 2 parter!
Topics include: Dragalia Lost toy, aesthetics, login bonuses and more!
In this week's episode part 2, Mark, Charles and David discuss Nintendo Mobile Games specifically Fire Emblem Heroes. We were going to do Dragalia Lost but decided to delay that for a Part 3!
Topics include: Fire Emblem Heroes, Cut scenes, Story, gacha scalability, IVs, and pocket sized ports of games.
In this week's episode part 1, Mark, Charles and David discuss Nintendo Mobile Games Super Mario Run and Animal Crossing Pocket Camp.
Topics include: Super Mario Run, Animal Crossing, Tutorials, Monetizations, and more!
In this week's episode, Mark, Charles and David discuss Gumi's new mobile game Brave Frontier: Last Summoner. We touch on what we didn't enjoy about the game which led to a nice discussion of UX and UI.
Topics include: FTUE, monetization strategy, UI/UX, Lessons Learned, and more!
In this week's episode, Mark, Charles and David discuss a Do and a Don't for monetization strategies in mobile free to play games.
Topics include: Caution of short sightedness, Burn Rate, UX polish, Fire Emblem Heroes, Trust, Notes from Devs, Dokkan Battle, Gacha scalability and more!
In this week's episode, Mark and David talk about the mobile games they've been playing recently!
Topics include: Idle Miner Tycoon, Trailer Park Boys Greasy Money, Knights Chronicle, monetization, and more!
In this week's episode, Mark, David and Charles discuss the craziness that is Brawl Stars soft launch and their thoughts on the game by industry all star, SuperCell Games.
Topics include: Game soft launch, Brawl Stars updates, thoughts, and future predictions, and more!
In this week's episode Mark and Charles discuss the foundations of Live Ops in mobile games today.
Topics include: What Live Ops is, important things to keep in mind about Live Ops in game development, and more!
In this week's episode, David and Charles discuss and answer some questions about CCGs from one of our listeners.
With so much push back on loot boxes in the past year (specifically those that provide mechanical benefit), is the old school model of booster packs for CCGs even viable today? It’s interesting that Artifact will allow players to buy and sell cards on the Steam marketplace, but I’m still hesitant. Are there other CCGs in the mobile space that are finding success with different models? Is there enough room for three big CCGs and how do they provide value for a player’s collection if they eventually rotate out cards and succumb to power creep? Is it even technically possible for Valve to allow buying/selling of cards on mobile?
In this week's episode, Mark, David and Charles discuss, categorize, and note strategies about retention in mobile gaming.
Topics include: Industry standard Retention numbers, Mark's Categorization of retention strategies, Keeping Player types in mind when designing retention mechanics, and more!
In this week's episode, Mark, David and Charles breakdown and discuss various aspects of Gameloft's newly worldwide launched game: Asphalt 9.
Topics brought up include retention mechanics, monetization mechanics, UI stacking and more!
Download Asphalt 9 for iOS here: https://itunes.apple.com/app/asphalt-9-legends/id805603214
Download Asphalt 9 for Android here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA9HM
First episode of the Monday Mobile Podcast. Mark, David, and Charles discuss some interesting Mobile gaming news that occurred in the past week.
Blade Runner 2049 Mobile Game open beta on Android:
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Android/Blade+Runner+2049/news.asp?c=78152
RUMOUR Fortnite will launch on android outside the Play Store:
https://www.xda-developers.com/fortnite-mobile-on-android-google-play-store/
Ryan Reynolds in Toon Blast ads:
https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/68645/ryan-reynolds-partners-with-peak-games-for-toon-blast-campaign/
Join us next time as we review and explore Asphalt 9 from Gameloft!