PocketGamer.biz announces a brand-new 'Game Design & Monetisation' MasterClass programme for 2024

To help game professionals in the industry during this difficult period, we are reintroducing our MasterClass programme, which shares expertise and best-practice advice from recognised industry veterans.

We offer interactive webinars, hands-on online MasterClasses, and a library of focused material on each topic.

Game Economy Design Webinar

Learn how to build lasting engagement into your game. This masterclass will show you how to integrate sustainable retention into the core mechanics of your game.

PROGRESSION AND POWER CURVES: Find out how to use ‘system thinking’ to evolve players from their First Time User Experience to a sustainable long-term engagement without falling prey to the dangers of Power Creep

SINKS AND SOURCES: Learn how to model the ‘Sinks & Sources’ of different currencies and resources to ensure balance between progression and grind 

RESOURCES, ANCHORS & RATCHETS: Discover tools which can help make the allocation of rewards more effective and avoid overly complicating the analysis of your game economy

TARGET AUDIENCE: We recommend that attendees have some understanding of the business of games and product lifecycle. The class is intended for game designers and commercial management who want to understand the best strategies to develop sustainable game experiences.

Meet your Mentor

Oscar Clark has been a pioneer in mobile and connected games since 1998. He led Wireplay, one of the first online PC games platforms, and was the global lead for games for Hutchison Whampoa (3UK), the most successful mobile Java games platform in terms of revenue per user in the world in 2005. He was also the Home Architect for Sony’s Online Virtual World, PlayStation Home, and the Evangelist for Unity Ads, one of the most successful advertising networks in games. 

He is CEO of Fundamentally Games offering consulting, training and publishing services on PC, mobile, and console. He has run classes for teams of all sizes (AAA to indie) and game accelerators for many organisations, including the Indielab Games accelerator program

He literally wrote the book Games As A Service, which was published in 2014 by Routledge. He is a contributing editor for PocketGamer.biz and a speaker, host and moderator for conference events around the world.

Looking for more MasterClasses in game design?

This MasterClass is part of a wider programme of free webinar and premium workshop sessions, covering practical game design topics, brought to you by PocketGamer.biz.

The free webinars introduce you to the core concepts of the course, whilst the workshops deep-dive into the fundamentals and provide real-world practical knowhow to enable the implementation of your newly acquired skills.

If you’re interested in attending another MasterClass, our full summer 2024 schedule is below:

Wednesday 24 July (16:00–17:00 BST)
MasterClass: Game Monetisation Design Webinar [FREE]

Wednesday 7 August (16:00–18:00 BST)
MasterClass: Game Monetisation Design Workshop

Wednesday 14 August (16:00–17:00 BST)
MasterClass: Game Design For Engagement & Retention Webinar

Wednesday 28 August (16:00–18:00 BST)
MasterClass: Game Design For Engagement & Retention Workshop

[THIS SESSION] Wednesday 4 September (16:00–17:00 BST)
MasterClass: Game Economy Design Webinar

Wednesday 18 September (16:00–18:00 BST)
MasterClass: Game Economy Design Workshop

DON'T MISS OUR SUPERB MULTI-SESSION DISCOUNT DEAL...

Subscription: £499 per licence – includes all sessions and 12-month access to all webinar session recordings. Catch the Early Bird rate for a MASSIVE double saving!

For more information on the subscription package above, please email [email protected].