Kolibri has found great success with its first two mobile game titles Idle Miner Tycoon and Idle Factory Tycoon. Both titles have now amassed about 100M downloads.  

How did students coming from University achieve so much success at such a young age?  

What were the processes and philosophies they used to develop Idle Miner Tycoon? 

What were some of the biggest lessons learned and mistakes made by the team? 

Found out all of this and more in this video with Kolibri Co-CEO and Co-Founder Daniel Stammler.  

Content Overview:  

Welcome everybody to TWIG #59!

Today we have myself Joe Kim, Eric Kress, and Miska Katkoff joins in to defend himself on his Call of Duty prediction.

We are also joined by Consumer Insights expert Stan Kwon from research firm BETAHAT.

We discuss the following articles:

1. The top 1% of app store publishers drive 80% of new downloads

2. Valve’s Half-Life series continues with Half-Life: Alyx for VR

3. Microsoft's Xbox streaming app isn't official yet, but it's already way better than Google's new video game service

4. Where Net Promoter Score Goes Wrong

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Namaste everyone and welcome to TWIG #58!

Today we have just myself Joe Kim and Eric Kress.

Miska and Adam are out for the rest of the year.

The full news we discuss is as follows:

#1. N3twork raises $40 million for platform to help mobile games gain traction

#2. How a Chinese Developer at Tencent Is Shaping the Future of Gaming

#3. Has the hypercasual game genre peaked?

#4. We review some of the predictions and actuals for Call of Duty Mobile, Harry Potter, Mario Kart, and other predictions we've made

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Welcome to TWIG #57.

Today we have your usual hosts Joe Kim, Eric Kress, and Adam Telfer (Miska's out for the rest of the year). We do have a guest host Alex Collins though: a software engineer at Jam City and DOF blog contributor.

The full news we discuss is as follows:

#1. Mixer + Shroud + Ninja

#2. Everything Announced at X019’s Inside Xbox Conference

#3. Fortnite’s Android installer is now a launcher for Epic mobile games

#4. The world is waiting for Google Stadia to flop

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Welcome to TWIG #56 everybody. This week we focus on live ops companies like DECA and now Rogue Games who will live operate Vainglory for Super Evil Megacorp.

Today we have your usual hosts Joe Kim, Eric Kress, and Adam Telfer (Miska's out today). Joining us however is Ken Go CEO of DECA who will talk about DECA's business and the business of live ops specialists.

The full news we discuss is as follows:

#1. Deca Games plays F2P’s long tail, buying 4 one-time hits from GREE

#2. Super Evil Megacorp raises $10.5 million, moves on to new game, and hands Vainglory off to Rogue Games

#3. Supercell cans Rush Wars

#4. BlizzCon 2019’s biggest announcements: Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, and an apology 

Watch the Ironsource Gamefest video on GameMakers: HERE

Watch the video interview with Mike DeLaet CEO of Rogue Games on GameMakers: HERE

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Welcome to TWIG #55 everybody. 

This week we get a bit of a battle between Eric and Miska over Zynga growth prospects so stay tuned for that!

This week we cover:

#1. EA games are coming back to Steam

#2. Mobile game firm Scopely raises $200 million

#3. One Million players now subscribe to PlayStation Now

#4. Zynga posts record-setting revenues, net bookings in Q3

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Welcome to TWIG 53.

This week we cover:

#1. Everything Riot announced for League of Legends’ 10th anniversary

#2. The 4 Features that matter on PS5 - and 5 that don’t

#3. Call of Duty is the biggest mobile game launch ever, with 100 million downloads

#4. CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE POST-LAUNCH APPROACH TO NEW CONTENT

We are joined by Paul Bellezza who actually works on Project A at Riot Games! 

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Riot Games got hit with a tsunami in the form of the infamous Kotaku article Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games. The article was followed by several people writing publicly about their own experience with the company that underlined the same story and signalled a clear message - Riot’s culture needed healing.

The person who took the ownership for leading the healing process was Angela Roseboro who joined the company as a Chief Diversity Officer & Talent Acquisition Lead little less than a year ago. And in such a relatively short time Angela and her team have had a massive impact showing not only the work they put in but also Riot’s willingness to accept and transform. You can (and should) read about all the initiatives and actions Angela has put into motion in this incredibly insightful blog post she wrote Riot Games One Year Later: My Reflections.

In this interview with Angela we talk about a sensitive but critical topics, which include Company Culture & Diversity in gaming companies today. And just to be clear we want to not just focus on the Diversity & Inclusion topic, which many folks in the media tend to focus on. Thus during this interview we will also talk about Culture more generally and the profound impact of culture on an organisation.