Free to Play Game Economics: How to plan and manage your game economy - Paperback

by Miguel Campillos (Author)

Inside this handbook, you will find a practical guide for designing and implementing an economy and business model for free-to-play games. Furthermore, you will maximize your chances of success while avoiding the typical problems associated with these types of games.

Miguel Campillos is a video game consultant and developer for PC, console, mobile, and virtual reality. He is based in Hamburg, Germany and has also taught classes on the video games industry at the Estonian University of Entrepreneurship and Applied Sciences.

In this book, he shares the knowledge he has acquired throughout his 13-year career as a game designer and product manager for several free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing games and casual games, which have earned millions of euros.

• What is the game economy
• Currencies: how do they behave and how to manage them
• Elements of the game economy
• The player's bugdet
• The special offers and how they affect your game economy
• Events, meta-game, crafting system, and other systems that help to your game economy
• The value of NFTs in videogames
• The videogames company and the product strategies