15 Insightful take aways from Mobidictum

15 Insightful takeaways from Mobidictum that you want to hear:

✦ Location was great and everyone was happy with it.
↳ Easy to get in and out (besides Istanbul traffic).
↳ Breakfast and lunch were amazing, but coffee was not.

✦Major stakeholders from last year with big booths:
↳ Were only present with their business developers
and some didn’t even show up, that’s not good.

✦Pretty much every game tech is looking for a game
developer who has ‘’potential’’. Where are they?
↳ Probably at home, working on the game.

✦While these developers looking for investment:
↳ because publisher deals and trust are damaged.

✦Meanwhile investors looking for early metrics
and staying away from new developers,
↳ So the whole thing is ‘’TANGLED’’

✦There were almost only B2B people, so whoever you
↳ run into either something to sell or buy.

✦Great positive vibes among all the people on the floor.

✦Too little time, too many people to meet:
↳ so I missed almost all the keynotes.

✦I didn’t see any AI or ‘’blockchain’’ people.
↳ Where did they go?

✦User Acquisition is a ‘’hot’’ topic and companies
↳ offering alternative UA channels has increased.

✦Self Publisher is the word everyone talks about
↳ but only a few know what it means.

✦Almost all game tech companies offer a referral
↳ it’s like people are hiding a good studio under
their basement and chasing these offers. Are they?

✦Turkish Indie PC games are looking better!
↳Yet haven’t seen a unique gameplay.

✦There are MAJOR game studio shifts between
↳ well-known publishers as some of them are
increasing their presence in Turkey, again
while others looking for something else.

=> The whole TANGLED situation will be solved with
One or two hit games coming from the area (mobile)
By a small studio, again. Everyone is looking
for them, while they are quietly working on it.

For more, hit me up, and let’s talk!

PS: Met many wonderful people again, Jakub Remiar and Felix Braberg were there. It was good to see Ömer Yakabagi but missed Yağız Gür.
Many surprise names and ex-colleagues(Rollic) I cant name, but they were browsing, let me just tell you that.
Special thanks to Batuhan Avucan and the whole Mobidictum team for their hospitality, Emre Çakan, Sina, and Yunus AYYILDIZ for sharing the stage.
Looking forward to seeing more industry professionals next year like Sergei Vasiuk, Anton Slashcev, and many more.