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We talk about netcode for multiplayer games. How to achieve competitive performance. Talking about this topic we have some incredible speakers including:

• #1. Glenn Fiedler who has been a programmer and multiplayer lead at companies like Irrational Games, Pandemic, Playstation, and Respawn. Currently, Glenn is the founder and CEO of Network Next which is essentially creating a new internet for multiplayer games.
• #2. Avinash Pandey, is the CTO of LILA Games. LILA is probably best known for having the handsomest CEO in the games industry. But before LILA Avinash most recently worked on a multiplayer F2P shooter game Mask Gun that has amassed over 40M installs.
• #3. And finally we have Christof Wegman. Founder and CTO of Photon Engine. Photon is the world’s #1 independent networking engine and multiplayer platform. Christof has been working on Photon for almost 18 years.

One of the biggest drivers for increasing existing player monetization and LTV is through F2P Sales. In this talk, we discuss a framework for Sales/Offers that has increased player LTV by 40%+ (and in some cases over 100%).

As mobile game studios (and others), increasingly shift to a free to play and live operations model, sales can be your biggest driver of alpha and increased performance.

Find out best practices through proven techniques in this talk.

How Companies and Employees Must Change For the Future

Why does our management team post videos to YouTube? Why does our CEO write blog posts and host a weekly podcast?

What does it mean to have an organizational and personal brand in the New World we live in?

In this presentation, LILA Games CEO Joseph Kim outlines 6 key societal and corporate trends that we believe will have a massive impact on how we work and live.

These trends sound boring and obvious but bear with us and watch the video to find out just how relevant the implications of these trends are:

Societal-

• Proliferation of Social Media (Yeah, I know this sounds Captain Obvious – just watch!)
• Emergence of the “Digital Footprint”
• Work-life Integration (vs. Work Life Balance)

Corporate-

• Rise of Globalization and Communication (Also not as obvious as it sounds- again just watch!)
• Externalization of the Enterprise
• Impact of Culture & Values

If you believe in the trends and implications I outline how will you change? How will your company change to adapt to this Brave New World?

This is an illustrative (in other words, we are NOT making this game) example of part of Paul’s game design process.

See how Paul approaches F2P game design below. Notice we go for extreme depth in the games that we want to build. Only insights from fully understanding a game can help lead us to breakthrough insights and innovation.

Paul and I travel to India to try and find a development partner… we had a crazy but very important trip.