Like every year, Diane and I will be in San Francisco for the Game Developer Conference from the 9th to the 13th of March. We’ll be there the whole week, so please contact us if you’d like to meet up.
Jen will be at SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX from the 12th to the 16th of March, so you can talk to us there, too!
If you want to meet over there, please feel free to drop me a line through the contact page: http://www.icopartners.com/contact.php
Just a quick reminder that Thomas will be participating in a panel at the London Games Conference tomorrow. The panel will be moderated by Phil Harrison, and Thomas will be speaking alongside Mark Gerhard, CEO of Jagex, and Kristian Segerstrale, CEO of Playfish, in a lively discussion about the future of games.
5:35 Daddy, What’s a Disc?
A discussion on the death of physical media and the business models that will rise up to replace them
The full lineup of the conference is here. If you are attending, please come and say hi!
EDIT - you can find an article covering the panel here.
The past week in Korea has been very busy for us. We attended the KGC event for the first time this year, and it has been a very nice experience.
Thomas spoke at KGC, presenting not one lecture, but two! Both went very well, with a very attentive audience that was thirsty for knowledge on the European market and the European players.
The presentations are on SlideShare now:.
This presentation is similar to others we’ve done during the year. Some of the numbers have been updated, and as always we have provided additional information from previous iterations. The section on how to enter the European market, and related advice, has been fleshed out more thoroughly.
This is quite a new angle for us. We prepared this lecture at the request of the KGC organizers, and we can honestly say it was a lot of fun to prepare. We’d like to develop it even further, but we hope that in its current form it has enough material to be useful to its intended audience (non-European developers).
As ever, feedback on both presentations is very welcome!
[You may have noticed that those presentations feature a different logo than our previous materials. We'll talk more about that soon, but for now let's just say that we felt the need to move on to an image that's more representative of ICO's spirit.]
This summer has proved to be very busy for ICO Partners. We attended a good number of events while still working for our different clients for a variety of projects. We went to GC Online in Leipig, to Gamescom in Cologne, had a stealth visit of PAX in Seattle (and left flu-free) and we just got back the GDC Austin in Texas. The travelling is almost over.
Almost.
Next week, both Thomas and Diane will be in Korea. (more…)
The lecture went really well, even if Thomas didn’t have time to insert a few Bastille Day jokes ! The slides can be downloaded here and seen below:
To renew the disclaimer in the presentation, a lot of the numbers are estimates based on various sources. If you have official numbers for any of those games, please contact us and we’ll update it!
Brighton’s Develop conference kicks off this week, and tomorrow, Tuesday 14th, ICO’s own Thomas Bidaux will be hosting a session on free-to-play games in Europe as part of its new Evolve track. In The European Free to Play Market, he’ll be giving an overview of Europe’s most successful F2P titles, the companies behind them, and the features that make them work. The session runs from 11.45 to 12.30.
Thomas will also be part of a panel discussion about how NESTA’s mentoring programme has helped developers to survive and succeed: it’s called Why Grey Matters - How to Grow Your Business, and it’s on Wednesday 15th at 11 am.
Diane and Jen will be in Brighton on Wednesday too, so if you’d like to meet up with one or more of us, please get in touch!
We don’t talk much about what we do on the blog. One reason is obviously the fact that we are often asked discretion and bound by NDAs on the projects we are undertaking. Another reason is that we don’t necessarily take the time to put things together and communicate about them.
Well, today seemed like a good day to actually do just this and announce some of what is coming for ICO Partners. Nothing fancy, but we wanted to share: (more…)
As promised during the lecture last week, we are sharing the presentation used as a support. For those who couldn’t attend, it should help you get the main items covered then (even though there is nothing like the real thing). At the end of the presentation, the main question was on the demographics and the numbers that we mentioned : the general numbers on Europe came from official census, most of the time done by some EU entity; numbers from the games that don’t have a source cited are estimates, based on publicly available data.
Note the presentation format make some slides difficult to read in Slideshare. You can always download the full presentation from the site though.
You can also find a write-up of the session on Adam Martin’s blog.
GDC is now only a few weeks away, and we are busy planning meetings and giving some final touches to the lecture.
As a reminder, we will be speaking at GDC, during the Worlds in Motion Summit. The session is on the 23rd of March, at 4.15pm, in the North Hall (room 132).
We actually wanted to share here a teaser of the many topics that the session is going delve into. A lot of the focus is on explaining Europe and the market of online games in Europe and how it is different from the North American market. (more…)