Game developers today live in a challenging climate: gaming has never been a more crowded space than it is now. In this environment, how do you attract users, differentiate your game from competitors, and still make enough money to keep the lights on? Existing methods of game monetization are starting to get stale.  Virtual goods have become a commodity, in-game advertising intrudes on the user experience, and level packs require continuous time investment to create new content. Game developers …

This meetup is for iOS and Android game developers and designers to learn about way the various methods of user acquisition and talk about the latest trends in monetization, we share experiences on what works and what doesn't and we hear directly from people in the trenches making money with their games.

Our goal is to disrupt the mobile game industry by delivering a complete infrastructure and ecosystem for HTML5 2D and 3D game development, allowing developers to deliver equal performance for both Native and Web-based games from a single code base. We provide a cloud compilation system that allows developers to deliver their games to all of the native apps stores, including iTunes, Google Play, Facebook and Chrome today with Kindle, Nook, Windows Phone, Tizen and Intel AppUp coming soon. We'll …

We work closely with smart, creative and insanely hardworking startup founders to help them focus their product’s value proposition, refine their product and pitch to investors and ultimately make personal introductions to help get their companies the resources and funding they need to scale. More info at: www.founderbase.net This is a monthly meet that brings together promising entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and around the world.  Join us for founder’s brunch, interactive panel discussion, o …

Sociality Rocks!2013 - San Francisco - is actually the first Eastern European-friendly event in Silicon Valley, dedicated to social and mobile games. Truly unique structure of the event: 2 conference days of speeches and discussion panels with top experts of social and mobile market (Facebook, Wooga, Chillingo, AppAnnie, PopCap, Playtika, Kerosene Games, GREE etc) + 1 day of welcoming tours to the gaming offices in Silicon Valley (Zynga, PlayHeaven, Paymentwall). What will we discuss?Trends and …

With rising acquisition costs, the struggle to create innovative gameplay, and a marketplace that couldn't possibly get more crowded, how can mobile game developers differentiate from their competitors? How can you get players to connect with your brand and remain loyal in the face of unprecedented options? The answer may surprising you: doing good. Doing good can mean many things: selling in-game items that support charitable causes, giving consumers a way to donate instead of buying in-game cu …