Latest Episodes
E47: Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma, Social Norms Go Astray, and Why Game Economy Needs Math
Chuck E. Cheese is still alive, and so is the analytics-to-product pipeline. @Amanda Cesario analytics lead turned product leader, joins @Phillip Black, Eric, and...
E46: Economics of Sweepstakes, Vertical Word Game Progression, and UXR Failure
Is fair matchmaking actually bad design? And how exactly did gaming companies fumble the bag when it came to the army of PhD psychologists...
E45: Autobattler Econ, WILD UGC Algo & A Currency Debate for the Ages (w/Arto Huhta) Autobattler Econ, WILD UGC Algo & The Big Currency Question (w/Arto Huhta)
What happens when autobattlers fail to monetize? We pull Arto Huhta into the cast and chat about Telegram’s pseudo-WeChat ambitions. Eric releases a distrack...
E44: Incentive UGC Determinism for the Future of Gaming (w/Alex Seropian)
UGC is about to change forever. In the same way all technologies govern and enable the creative, MTX will do the same for Fortnite....
E43: Bentham's Body, Hypothesis Testing & Marginal ROAS (w/Eric Seufert)
Eric Seufert joins to dissect AI hype, marginal ROAS, Jeremy Bentham's legacy, and managing a multi-million-dollar marketing budget that falls empirically short. WE discuss:How...
E42: Vertical Progression Is Gaming's Sex & Finally A Web3 Hope
Forget the endless autopsies on why Web3 gaming flatlined, @Chris gets past the clichés and gets into the real pathology: a misdiagnosis of what...