Simon Hade

Simon Hade

Space Ape

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Simon is co-founder of London mobile games studio Space Ape, makers of the hit music game Beatstar and strategy game Transformers Earth Wars.

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Highs and Lows of our Quest to find a Category Defining Game

Tuesday
11:00am - 11:45am
Room 2

Space Ape co-founder, Simon Hade, will share their experiences of the development, and live ops scaling of their rhythm action hit Beatstar.  The talk will share war stories from the search for product market fit, including memories of the many games and ideas discarded along the way as well as the tactics that allowed them to scale the game to over $100m revenue and 50m users in a year.

Session Takeaway

Strategies and tactics for exploring blue ocean categories in game development.

Live Ops tools for scaling arcade action games.  

Frameworks for thinking about new game opportunities and navigating the modern performance marketing landscape.

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