by Mike Herron | Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
It’s been an amazing 2017 already for ChilliConnect and we’re delighted to say that we’re now growing our development team. We’re looking for full-stack developers to help us continue adding game backend, analytics and live ops capabilities to...
by Gavin Moffat | Jul 14, 2017 | BaaS, Business
It’s safe to say that online and social features are an integral part of most major game releases in 2017. Such features are almost a prerequisite in the upper reaches of the mobile chart and whilst solo-focused experiences still have a place on PC and console,...
by Gavin Moffat | Apr 19, 2017 | Free to Play, Hints and Tips, Soft launch
Despite huge potential rewards, working in mobile remains challenging for developers and publishers. Crowded app stores and high UA costs mean that carrying out a successful soft launch is more important than ever. Before committing a marketing budget to your next...
by Mike Herron | Feb 22, 2017 | ChilliConnect, Hints and Tips
Clans, Teams, and Guilds are an increasingly common feature of many successful mobile games, providing a shared sense of purpose and community that can help you retain players for longer. This new tutorial shows how you can use ChilliConnect to quickly and easily add...
by Mike Herron | Feb 13, 2017 | ChilliConnect, Hints and Tips
We’ve just added a new tutorial to our help system showing how to quickly implement Facebook Login and Friends Leaderboards in your game using ChilliConnect. Facebook Login has become a staple of many mobile titles, enabling players to resume progress across...
by Gavin Moffat | Feb 10, 2017 | ChilliConnect, Free to Play, Hints and Tips
Retention is arguably the number one early indicator of potential free to play success.The longer players are actively engaged with your game the more likely they are to become paying players, so if you are unable to retain players your revenue potential will plummet....
by Mike Herron | Dec 16, 2016 | ChilliConnect
It’s been a busy year for ChilliConnect. Since reaching our v1.0 milestone in June we’ve continued to expand the platform with some big releases and every month more and more developers are using ChilliConnect to power their games, add social features and...
by Mike Herron | Dec 15, 2016 | ChilliConnect, Updates
The ChilliConnect team are delighted to announce support for development of geo-location based games with our new Collection Data feature. Collection Data is a fast, scalable, cloud based data store for your games that provides all the flexibility you would get from...
by Gavin Moffat | Dec 8, 2016 | ChilliConnect, Hints and Tips, Premium
For many years F2P has been viewed as the go-to model for commercial success on mobile. However, with Nintendo about to launch Super Mario Run and Square Enix’s recently repeated commitment to favouring high quality premium games over F2P, are we about to...
by Mike Herron | Oct 20, 2016 | ChilliConnect, Hints and Tips
There is growing agreement amongst many mobile app and game developers that writing your own backend is a huge drain on your time, resources and mental energy. While developers always love to learn new things, the reality is that building, launching and operating your...
