Author: Dean Takahashi / Source: VentureBeat
GamesBeat Summit 2019 will take place in Los Angeles at the Two Bit Circus, a “micro-amusement park” that’s like an arcade meets Ready Player One in the Arts District. And now we’re ready to name our first three speakers for the event taking place April 23 and April 24.
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The first of our many speakers are:
- Chris DeWolfe, the CEO of Jam City
- Mike Sepso, an executive at esports organization New York Excelsior and chairman of Electronic Sports Group (ESG)
- Tommy Tallarico, head of Intellivision Entertainment, a legendary video game musician, and founder of Video Games Live.
Our theme this year is Building Gaming Communities. Our speakers and guests will talk about the best practices for building sustainable and positive communities in games.
Strong communities can help boost the staying power and hit status of games, as loyal fans keep coming back over and over and spread word-of-mouth goodness about games in an authentic way. But it’s no secret that communities can be a double-edged sword, especially when it comes to topics like hazing, harassment, and rebellions against monetization tactics.
Game companies have to walk tightropes, and our hope is that GamesBeat Summit will point the way to the best strategies for building thriving communities.
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Chris DeWolfe, CEO of Jam City
DeWolfe made his mark in the rising Los Angeles social media community by founding MySpace in 2003. The social network grew to more than 135 million monthly unique visitors, and he sold it to News Corp. in 2005 for $580 million. But DeWolfe wasn’t quite done. In 2010, DeWolfe teamed up with Austin Ventures to purchase MindJolt, a social gaming platform.
It merged with several companies and in 2012 it adopted Social Gaming Network (SGN) as its name. The acquisitions continued, with the addition of TinyCo (maker of Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff) in mid-2016. SGN rebranded itself as Jam City, and it went on to big hits in mobile casual games such as Panda Pop and Cookie Jam. The company acquired a few more games in 2018, and it also launched one of its best known titles, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery.
All along the way, DeWolfe argued for the…
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