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Game Design is Business Design – GDC 2013 Edition

FamousAspect Apr 19, 13 0 29 sec read

I presented this latest version of my game monetization lecture – Game Design is Business Design – at the 2013 Game Developer’s Conference as part of the Free to Play Design and Business Summit. In the talk, I mention some tools and templates in the lecture that you can find at the following links:


In the template docs, anything in italics are notes for you. If you use the template, you should delete these sections.

I hope you find these tools and templates valuable. Please send any feature requests, feedback or questions to FamousAspect [at] gmail [dot] com.

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