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Practical Game Design
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Practical Game Design

by Adam Kramarzewski, Ennio De Nucci
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
476 pages
14h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Tutorials in Free to Play games

Special attention should be given to Free to Play games. This is an excellent example of how your business model, game genre, and target audience can deeply influence every aspect of your game design. Unlike premium games, Free to Play games are downloaded for free, so the initial commitment from your players is very low. They can immediately lose interest or decide to move to the next free game within seconds of their decision to try yours.

Players who buy premium games have already invested money in those games, so their commitment to the game and attention to what's going on on the screen is immensely higher than what they have for F2P games.

This doesn’t mean that premium games tutorials can be poorly designed, ...

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ISBN: 9781787121799Other