A new must-attend virtual event is coming this month!

On October 28, Game Developer will be hosting its latest live, free-to-attend Editorial Forum, which will include a talk from veteran game industry entrepreneur Jason Della Rocca and a live Q&A.

Della Rocca is an award-winning game industry business pro and co-founder of Execution Labs. In his Game Developer Editorial Forum talk, "Using market analysis to help make your game a success," he'll run down the importance of competitive analysis, user research, and more.

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This talk is free to attend and will broadcast live with a Q&A (and available on-demand if you miss the original broadcast).

Title: Using Market Analysis to Help Make Your Game a Success
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021
Time: 01:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour

What to expect:

More details:

Featured Presentation: Using Market Analysis to Help Make Your Game a Success: A Talk and Q&A with Jason Della Rocca

Luck favors the prepared game developer! This session will dig deep into the need to understand market trends and methods for competitive analysis, and how genre selection may in fact be your most critical marketing decision. We’ll also explore how this analysis allows calibration of ambition levels and factors into pitch readiness.

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Sponsor Presentation: The Future of Digital Distribution for Video Games

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Speakers

Featured Speaker: Jason Della Rocca
Co-Founder
Execution Labs

Jason Della Rocca is a game industry entrepreneur, funding advisor, and cluster expert. He specializes in business/partnership development, pitching/funding, and ecosystem/cluster development. As the co-founder of Executions Labs, he was a hands-on early stage investor to over 20 independent game studios from North America and Europe. Between 2000-09 he served as the executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), and was honored for his industry building efforts with the inaugural Ambassador Award at the Game Developers Conference. In 2009, Jason was named to Game Developer Magazine’s “Power50,” a list which profiles 50 of the most important contributors to the state of the game industry. As a sought after expert on the game industry, Jason has lectured at conferences and universities worldwide.

Sponsor Speaker: Elena Popova
Director of Payments & Anti-fraud Products
Xsolla

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Kris Graft
Publisher
Game Developer

Kris Graft is publisher at GameDeveloper.com, the leading site dedicated to the craft of making video games.

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