Patrick Moberg
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the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1
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Emergent gameplay like Minecraft drives steady, long-term game sales cycles
“I think games that have like emergent behavior, so like something like Minecraft where it's almost like the random chaos of things happening creates this narrative that's almost like fun to watch creates like a longer term sales cycle for a game. So it's a les…”
Developing mobile game Dots took three months and Two Dots took six
“Dots took three months, but it was very simple. Two dots actually took about six months.”
Mobile games require massive scale because player value barely exceeds install cost
“The LTV is almost like just a little bit higher than CPI. So like you're not making that much money on each acquisition. So like that's why you sort of need that big scale to like sort of Profit from that launch.”
Minimalist character design broadens a game's mainstream audience appeal
“I always felt like the less character a game had, the more like a wider audience could almost project whatever they wanted onto it. So it was like, maybe you won't find the most hardcore fan, but it's going to appeal to such a broader sort of audience.”