A Peek Inside the Zynga Playbook

Dec '09 16 Wed 7:00 PM
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 317  people attended.
3.50 3.5027 (27 ratings)

Who organized?
AJ Archibald

Your chance to hear directly from the leader in social gaming on what it takes to create a great social game. Join developers from such titles as Farmville and Cafe World to talk about social game design, virality, and other issues to make your game pop on social nets like Facebook and Myspace. The event is from 7-10 with food and drink provided. Look forward to seeing everyone there

Featured Speakers:
Amitt Mahajan - Lead Developer on Farmville
Kyle Saugier - Senior Client Engineer on Yoville
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SPONSORED MESSAGE FROM TRIALPAY:
Will O’Brien - GM of Social and Casual Games, TrialPay
Top 3 Ways To Monetize Your Game
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  • Mike Lyons
    Mike Lyons

    THere was definitely a camera there, I wonder where we can see the video

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 10:55 AM
  • Chuck
    Chuck

    Will this be recorded and posted online?

    Posted Dec 16, 2009 9:13 AM
  • Rob Schatz
    Rob Schatz

    AJ, I would have totally gone to this but my daughter has her choir concert the same night. Sorry about that. Maybe next time.
    ---Rob

    Posted Dec 4, 2009 2:28 PM
  • Cynthia Freese
    Cynthia Freese

    I am hoping I am not snowed in by then!

    Posted Dec 3, 2009 7:47 AM
  • AJ Archibald
    AJ Archibald

    Ha indeed. A little too fast for my own good. Thanks

    Posted Oct 26, 2009 11:57 AM
  • bonder
    bonder

    Looks great!

    Um, you mean "peek" though, not "peak." ;)

    Posted Oct 26, 2009 11:18 AM
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Who attended?

  • 317 attendees
    • Yakhyuk (+1 guest)
       I was disappointed by the presentation as I had expected more insider goodies and would have preferred a different location. It was super crammed and uncomfortable and we had to pay for food and drinks out of pocket this time. 
    •  Great presenters. AJ did pretty well considering this isn't his full-time gig. I expect the next one will knock our socks clean off! 
    •  was not able to attend due to work schedule. Sorry I missed it 
    •  Getting a badge was pointless, and the queue was long. If you're going to insist on giving badges, start up to an hour early and have someone at the door giving them out as people arrive. 
    •  It was more lecture then meetup. Not much new information either. It seemed more an add for Zynga then anything. 
    •  Just fantastic. Lots of great people. 
    •  Had I not attended a previous successful event, this experience would drive me away from the group entirely. The evening was without value at all. There was an hour long wait to write my own name on a badge, which I learned 8 feet from the front of the line was available to anyone who could walk up and grab it. Lackluster presentations by both Trialpay and Zynga in which they described technical and marketing strategies not actually employed by their products were laughable, and I have no idea what their "sponsorship" actually did for the event and its attendees; the "food & drink provided" as advertised was nowhere to be seen. I feel cheated and lied to. The organizer publicly apologized to the group this morning for unexpected difficulties in managing an event so large, but the RSVP list was was well over 300 for the better part of a week beforehand. His assistant was rude and unhelpful, and did not seem overly concerned at our discomfiture. 
    • Ingrid Asmundson (+1 guest)
       This was better than I expected. Useful, targeted talks from some of the biggest players in this area + the chance to meet other local folks in the field in a casual atmosphere = totally worth my time. 
    • Mike Lyons (+1 guest)
       There was really not enough time, after the presentation many of the audience questions were not answered. The event only lasted about 40 minutes 
    • Cindy Hunt (+1 guest)
       Good topic, would like to hear similar ones. 
    •  A great second Meetup for this group. The venue was nice with a lot of screens to view presentations from any location in the bar. Great presenters with intersteing, well prepared slideshows. Queue for badges was really long so many just skipped signing in. 
    • Corey Rosemond (+1 guest)
       One of the best presentations I've seen from a leader in the social gaming space. Great networking and conversations overall. I'll definitely be back. -Corey 
    •  Line was too long and a waste of time. I easily could have skipped the line...and was annoyed afterwards that I didn't. Do some tests to find out how long it takes to check off 10 random names in your book. Then use that test to estimate the number of people you need to handle registration in less than 15 minutes. 1 person and 1 marker wasn't very efficient. 
    •  A great opportunity to network. Also really interesting to hear the Zynga developer give some insight into their design process and engineering. 
    •  I think the presenters were great! 
    • Will Lin (+1 guest)
       The registration line was bad. Too long and too slow. Ended up not checking in. This must be improved for future meets. 
    • Paul Norton (+1 guest)
       Meetup was great. The speakers were great. The whole waiting in line to sign-in, was bad (chaotic). 
    •  not enough developers 
    •  Learned a lot about developing facebook games from the people from Zynga. 
    • DuncanX (+1 guest)
    • Jacqui (+1 guest)
    • MK Barr (+2 guests)
    • Conan (+1 guest)
    • Nathan (+1 guest)
    • Linda (+1 guest)
    • Barbara Pritchard (+1 guest)
    • J.Joly (+1 guest)
    • Geoffrey Sidari (+1 guest)
    • Mikhail (+1 guest)
    • Robert Rapier (+1 guest)
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