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User Acquisition Basics: Get the White Paper
With hundreds of new games arriving in app stores every day, getting players to try a new game is one of the biggest hurdles developers face. After all, the best game in the world will still fail if no one plays it. Planning a user acquisition strategy is thus a key part of game operations.
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New Cloud Script Guide and Other Updates
We’ve been working hard to catch up with our growing documentations, and proudly announce our new tools for doing so: A Cloud Script guide, a simplified Getting Started guide, and an updated guide for Game Manager.
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Video: Behind the Scenes with Hyper Hippo
In this video series they share their iterative approach to game design, the importance of live services, and why they’re using PlayFab’s backend service to fuel their game.
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Webinar Wrap-up: Advanced Cloud Script
In this webinar we will take a deeper dive into Cloud Script to learn how to extend your game.
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Thriving in an Oversaturated Game Market
The data is in! Mobile games are more available world wide and easier to make than ever. So how is a game developer to get noticed and see success in an over-saturated market? This blog post analyses the data and shares some of PlayFab's strategies for success.
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Join Us at Seattle Startup Week
PlayFab will be participating in Seattle Startup Week, a free five-day event designed to facilitate these conversations and celebrate the city’s startup success. We’d particularly like to invite you to hear PlayFab CEO James Gwertzman, who is taking part in one of the funding panel discussions.
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Learning from the Women Who Test
Melissa Benua reflects on her experiences at STARWEST. Slides to her talk on on Women Who Test day are available, and reiterates her perspective on being a female engineer in a male-dominated field.
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Congrats to the Seattle Game Jam Winners!
Congratulations to Mad Scien-tile-ology and Gurgamoth Lives for winning the Judges’ award and the People’s Choice award at this weekend’s Seattle Game Jam. Thirteen games were presented to the judges and then voted on by the participants as well. All games were loosely based on the weekend’s theme of “It’s Alive!”
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Webinar Wrap-Up: Unity and PlayFab: Getting Started
This absolute beginner webinar is ideal for those just getting started with Unity and PlayFab.
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Office Hours: Push Notifications
Thanks to everyone who came to our first virtual office hours last week! We'll continue to do these every second Wednesday, and next week's theme will be push notifications.