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Explore Jeff Parsley's journey as the February Player Insights Champion, recognized by Affogata for his data-driven approach to game improvement through player feedback.
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Battle Royale is one of the most popular gaming genres, as it attracts millions of players all over the world. But what are some of the trends and attractions in this genre? What are the challenges four of the leading games in this genre face? Hello everyone and welcome to Affogata’s podcast: Let’s talk customer feedback. We had the pleasure to be doing a special episode with two very special guests. We hosted Chris Zerathe, a veteran gaming expert, and Anaelle Nelken, Affogata’s Account Executive who created just recently an in-depth professional Battle Royale analysis report.
A solo project, built for about 8 months and inspired by the phrase “haunt an object”, where you take an ordinary object and breathe life into it as though a ghost was inhabiting it. Michael Perce is Alghrab’s Game Designer, a game that started as a Halloween prop which Michael turned into a unique Alt.Ctrl game.
You are playing two fugitives escaping from the penitentiary and trying to reach the border. Unfortunately, your escape will not be easy! The first concern is that the only thing you found to flee is an abandoned handcar on the train rails. This is the start of ‘Two Busy to Escape’, an Alt.Ctrl game designed by Chloé Morin, a talented Game Designer we met at GDC 2022 - Game Developers Conference.
How does player feedback impact product decisions and how yo choose what feedback to implement? Hello and welcome to Affogata’s podcast: Let’s talk customer feedback. We had the pleasure of hosting Rizwana Rahman, Technical lead product manager at Intel. Her career started as an engineer. Her interest to leverage her engineering, analytical and creative skills led her to opportunities where she saw the products at the cusp of engineering, design, product, and marketing end. She has had the privilege of experiencing different industries including automotive, finance, appliances, healthcare, and gaming as she was given opportunities at Siemens, Barclays Wealth Americas, GE, Sony, and now Intel. Each of these experiences is super valuable to her as she learned at each of these organizations about product development, processes, and how customer needs are met.
The story takes place in the year 2213. The player is thrown into the frozen waters of this newly discovered planet, by an explosion from the research facility in which they were installed. The blast destroyed the facility and killed nearly all members in it, leaving the player to survive in the cold waters of the unknown planet. And… this is just the beginning of Dylan’s game ‘Don’t feed the bottom’ which he is currently working on and working on its soundtrack, concept, writing, and storyline.
Hello and welcome to Affogata’s podcast: Let’s talk customer feedback. We had the pleasure of hosting Philip Hubner, Chief Business Development Officer at Challengermode. We usually have the pleasure of hosting game developers, designers, or product and marketing managers at gaming companies who talk about how they leverage player feedback in their day-to-day job and the importance of listening to player feedback.
Play your game to a better world. How does that sound? Playing games and immersing them through VR is always fun, but what if you can also do that by learning about sustainability and the importance of having a clean ocean? That’s the idea behind David Andrade’s game ‘Blobkin Blaster’, which was released last year.
They say it is more difficult to stay at the top than to get there. And such is the case with four of the leading gaming brands that all reached, and still claim, massive success within their extremely competitive market. They, namely Fortnite, Call of Duty, Apex Legends and PUBG, are all leaders within the Battle Royale gaming genre and have recorded enormous revenues as their brands are played, and enjoyed, by millions of gamers.
As more and more video game releases continue to hit the market in 2022, including Elden Ring which took six years to produce as well as Lego Star Wars, the video game industry expects another boom year in both excitement and sales. But with the launch of many new video games comes the realization that the market becomes even more crowded, and the bar is raised yet again on all aspects, including games' complexity levels, design, story, and character features. Online game services, PC gaming, and hardware manufacturers as well as streaming companies, are also raising the bar in terms of trying to figure out their customer experience in this billion-dollar market.
Collecting coins in a video game is nothing new. In the ever-popular Nintendo’s Super Mario bros. video game series, coins can be found in every level, and the player can collect them as they spawn from blocks or as they float in the air. The coins' worth varies, as their collection can grant the game characters extra lives. In other versions, they simply increase the player’s score, speed, and recovery times, or can be used to purchase items.
