An Introduction to Game Life Cycle

Customer: Personify your target customers and more importantly know their psychographics to know their attitudes, colors preferences and values your idea is going to offer.

Competition: Identify your actual or potential competitors and know their strengths and weaknesses. This will help you in adding competitive advantage in your product and later will guide your marketing strategies to hunt well in red oceans or blue oceans.

Company: One should never skip this analysis to make sure all the relevant knowledge and expertise are present throughout the life cycle implementation.

Game Mechanics: This is the heart of your game and offers value to the end user. Think about user interactions, controls and execution of the game play to offer maximum entertainment to the customer. In other words game designer has to draft the main game play, core play loop and game HUD.

Game Flow: Draft the wire-framing for your product. Design all supported screens, dialogues and pop-ups. Every tap or click made by user has significant importance so either it should offer value to user or to the business. Avoid extra screens and complex navigations because I have never observed 100% conversions at any tap.

Game Progress: Think about displaying user progress; "No one plays a game to lose". This factor counter most in game retention and money comes with high retention. Level designs, scores, unlocking contents and many more techniques come to play simultaneously.

Game Economy: Design your hard and soft currencies and control their sources and sinks to create pressure points and roller coaster experience for the user.

Extended game loops: Core game play loop is the heart of game play but still one can add more entertainment with extended game play loops. The more these loops tighten to the core loop the more value it will offer. Mini games also offer some extension to the game play loops so consider them as well.

Monetization Gamification: Earning money from a game play isn't a direct output. In game design phase implement gamification for monetization. It can be by-passing time gates, selling of props, opening of hard gates or making progress over-night with real money. On the other hand majority players prefer to play for free so there should be ads mechanism, rewarded videos or cross promotion options to monetize free players as well.

Concept creative

Creative Art Work

Game software development

Design and implementation of analytics frameworks

Integration of free monetization tools (Ads networks)

Design and execute game simulation to cross check game progress and economy design.

Organic Growth: Get control of all the organic growth levers and keep them updating on regular basis. ASO is the most successful tool, yet presence on web, in similar apps, in ranks, in feature games also contributes a lot to growth.

K-factor Play: K-factor also known as social-factor; plays important role in being viral. In order to be viral one has to cross the chasm and integration of social features in games and social marketing techniques becomes the useful tools. Social features can also be integrated to achieve high retention, to enhance sense of achievement and to increase the presence on web.

User Acquisitions: User acquisitions techniques operate under the guidance of business objectives. Business objectives can be to bring a decent look of game page, to establish a prominent position, to compete, to add barrier for new entrants or to earn money. Monitor and measure all of your user acquisition channels for better decision making and achieving business goals a.s.a.p.

Customer Support: A customer who contact you worth 10,000 users; if you have closely looked at the game funnel. So every time take them seriously and always be on your toes to support and facilitate them.

Live-Ops: Game development and design does not end at stage 3. There is still a complete module to execute on regular basis. Live Operations deals with ongoing activities in the game and can take many forms like tournaments, seasonal activities, regular competitions, time bound activities and periodic sales. Live-ops team also have to be in touch with the activities happening around the end users like valentine days celebrations or some major sports event occurring.