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The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry

Session Name: You're Not Alone: A Backend Technology Solution Survey
Speaker(s): James Gwertzman
Company Name(s): PlayFab, Inc.
Track / Format: Free to Play Summit

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Overview: Developers no longer need to build the backend for a F2P game from scratch; nowadays there are hundreds of vendors in categories such as attribution tracking, advertising, customer service, localization, predictive analytics, A/B testing, tax calculations, profanity filtering, payment processing, and more.
This session will survey this ever-growing ecosystem, reviewing the leaders, and suggesting common scenarios that require linking technologies together. This is a "pedal meets the metal" talk on the reality of implementing an actual backend to support high-level concepts that other speakers in this summit will talk about, like boosting monetization, doing effective user acquisition, or using analytics effectively.

GDC 2016

James Gwertzman

PlayFab, Inc.

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Free to Play Summit

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