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Surviving The Challenge
Of Self-Publishing
Online Games
Vincent Vergonjeanne - EVERYDAYiPLAY
Co-Founder & Former CEO of Kobojo
5.3M€ Serie A in april 2011
Founder & CEO of EVERYDAYiPLAY
Self-financed Game Studio
Self-Publishing?
The “Legacy” Physical Model
The Digital Distribution Revolution
The Free to Play Convergence
Digital Distribution
+ Free to Play
=
Anyone can make &
publish a game
Survival Guide To
Self-Publishing
#1 - Maximize retention
#2 - Maximize monetization
#3 - Maximize acquisition
Symptom #1
“I reached 300K installs in 2 months.
But my daily traffic is only 2K.”
Paul C.
Ideal retention
Your actual retention
Retention Pro Tip 1
Master your
“First Time User Experience”
Fact: you will lose more players during
the first session than any other sessions
combined!
You need to understand where and why!
Monitor your First Time User Funnel
What is a Funnel?
At which tutorial step or mission
do players give up on us?
First Time User Data
Have a critical look at completion rate
of the first 20 missions of your game
30 hours of mission data from PyramidVille
First try: indicate how the shop looks like
Second try: make the shop blink
Reason: Small resolutions just didn’t
have it on their screen!
Third try: put a big blue arrow 
Retention Pro Tip 2
Plan why your players would
come back after they finish your
content
Interest Curve for Content Only
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Day 1 Day 7 Day 30 Day 60
Pressure to produce content
is too high, expensive and
stressful for the team
Salsa Class
Interest Curve of
Content + “Social Recognition”
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Content is your ice breaker
Social Recognition is your long term
retention
Symptom #2
“I have a lot of daily players.
But my DARPU is $0.01”
James P.
Free to play is hard!
Players have not paid up-front
And they really don’t have to!
Unless you provide a good reason
Why do people buy virtual goods?
They buy emotions
What virtual good actually sell?
• Gate Emotion
• Energy system (15 clicks per sessions)
• Pure time-gating (20min cool-down before next big bonus)
• Economy tensions linked to time (collect enough gold to buy)
• Social recognition
• Ranking (win as much as possible – be the best)
• Complete (be the first to finish a goal recognized by others)
• Differentiation (ONLY if the community exist)
In-game marketing is important!
Is this an healthy revenue chart?
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D7
D8
D9
D10
D11
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D13
D14
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D16
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D18
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D20
Revenues
Revenues
Healthy Revenue Chat
0
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7000
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5
D6
D7
D8
D9
D10
D11
D12
D13
D14
D15
D16
D17
D18
D19
D20
Revenues
Revenues
Make that first sell
Discount your Hard Currency
Consideration on Pricing at launch
• Always price as high as possible at
launch.
• It is always possible to lower the price
later, but it is hard to increase it.
To Conclude
#1 - Maximize retention
#2 - Maximize monetization
#3 - Maximize acquisition
Questions?
Vincent Vergonjeanne
vincent@everydayiplay.com
@vvergon

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Best practices to survive the challenge of self-publishing by Vincent Vergonjeanne, CEO & Founder at EVERYDAYiPLAY

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