With Shattered Planet, Short said genre wasn't a problem.
"I think the overlap between audiences was just too small to sustain a thriving community around the game," Barrière-Kucharski said. Barrière-Kucharski said that the people who would appreciate Big Action Mega Fight's skill-based gameplay and faithful take on the beat-'em-up genre simply weren't the same people interested in free-to-play games. We couldn't compete at our size and budget with other, more established free-to-play studios and games."īig Action Mega Fight didn't see much success as a free app.īeyond that, the genre may have been a poor fit for the audience. "It was really very arduous to keep up and engage the audience with new levels, new enemies, and new types of content. "We picked a genre, fighting, that was very content-driven," Barrière-Kucharski said.
In Double Stallion's case, part of the problem was that Big Action Mega Fight proved an awkward fit for the free-to-play format. Short and Double Stallion's Nicolas Barrière-Kucharski spoke with GamesIndustry International this week to discuss their forays into free-to-play, and why more traditional business models worked better for them. However, both titles struggled to rake in revenue, and the studios have since released more successful premium versions of the two. Kitfox Games and Double Stallion, two Montreal studios from Jason Della Rocca's Execution Labs incubator, launched Shattered Planet and Big Action Mega Fight, respectively, on mobile in the last year.
But some smaller developers have found that future isn't all it's made out to be, and have been finding more success back on the premium side of the fence. To hear the likes of Electronic Arts and Gameloft tell it, premium apps are all but a relic of the past, the obsolete progenitor to mobile's free-to-play future.
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