The video of our talk on Angry Birds is finally online!
All details can be found on the official site. Thanks again to Paolo for putting up with me and to the organizers of the event. Looking forward to WhyMCA 2012 :-)
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Friday, September 23, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Angry Birds at WhyMCA
Today Paolo and I have held our speech on the reasons beyond the huge success of Angry Birds.
First of all we would like to thank all our attendees, that decided to spend an hour of their time with us. Too often we only think of what we will say or do in a presentation, and we can easily forget that a lot of people would waste their time if we don't take this responsibility very seriously. We hope all the time we have spent preparing the speech has translated in even the smallest improvement for people who choose to listen to us. The hall was crowded, but then again maybe the other ones were too full and people were looking for a place where they could find a seat and sleep for a while after dinner :-)
The other thanks are for the organizers of the conference, whithout whom all this would not have been possible. They were even so nice as to give us a beautiful t-shirt for free... and I even won a mug :-)
Here are the slides of our speech:
I suppose they are not very easily comprehensible without the speakers, but at least I am told the pictures are nice :-)
All constructive comments, positive or negative as they might be, are highly welcome: help us to improve!
First of all we would like to thank all our attendees, that decided to spend an hour of their time with us. Too often we only think of what we will say or do in a presentation, and we can easily forget that a lot of people would waste their time if we don't take this responsibility very seriously. We hope all the time we have spent preparing the speech has translated in even the smallest improvement for people who choose to listen to us. The hall was crowded, but then again maybe the other ones were too full and people were looking for a place where they could find a seat and sleep for a while after dinner :-)
The other thanks are for the organizers of the conference, whithout whom all this would not have been possible. They were even so nice as to give us a beautiful t-shirt for free... and I even won a mug :-)
Here are the slides of our speech:
I suppose they are not very easily comprehensible without the speakers, but at least I am told the pictures are nice :-)
All constructive comments, positive or negative as they might be, are highly welcome: help us to improve!
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Angry Birds invade WhyMCA
On May 20 I'll be presenting with Paolo at WhyMCA Mobile Developer Conference in Milano. Our presentation will start from Angry Birds, the all famous blockbuster mobile game, to introduce the concept of patterns in games, loosely following the ideas presented by Raph Koster in A theory of Fun for Game Design.
The abstract: 12 million paid downloads, 100 million downloads, 50 million Euros under the belly. Why has everyone with a smartphone played Angry Birds? Why is it so addictive? How is it different from games not designed for mobiles, and how is it equal to them? What are the patterns beyond a successful game? Do they hold only for mobile? Is finding them an art, or are they reproducible? Let's find out why the answers are hard wired in our brains.
Read all about it here.
The abstract: 12 million paid downloads, 100 million downloads, 50 million Euros under the belly. Why has everyone with a smartphone played Angry Birds? Why is it so addictive? How is it different from games not designed for mobiles, and how is it equal to them? What are the patterns beyond a successful game? Do they hold only for mobile? Is finding them an art, or are they reproducible? Let's find out why the answers are hard wired in our brains.
Read all about it here.
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