Making successful Social Games

Social GamesFrank Ließner, Flash Developer

wooga Founded January 2009 Founding $32mTeam of 110 from 20 countries 6 games on Facebook 31 million active user 70% of users are female

TeamLead Product ManagerProduct ManagerDesignerFrontend DeveloperBackend Developerno Project Manager

Workﬂowscrum / kanban

Methodik

Methodikscrum / kanbanweekly iterationsstandupsbacklog

Workspacefree choice of tech. settingkeep admin rightsfree arrangementresponsibility

Prototypevision

Prototypevision buy buy andgame loop plot place item collect wait income income

Prototypevisiongame looptheme

Prototypevisiongame loopthemetests

Prototype - technical nearly no ﬁxed specs try decide server / db

Gamenew projecttransfer good partsadd trackingadd monitoringtranslations

Releases1. prototype2. ﬁrst playable3. alpha4. beta5. silent public6. public7. public with links

Enhancements operate without interruptions more users - more bugs unittestings refactoring stable codestructure new features a/b tests

Summaryprototypeagiler workﬂowno masterplanstep by stepbe fast, be boldgood skilled team

Questions?frank.liessner@wooga.com wooga.com

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by Frank Liessner on Oct 31, 2011

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