{"id":611,"date":"2011-04-11T17:50:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2011-05-10T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T10:52:22","slug":"david-vs-goliathville-a-call-to-arms-for-indie-social-game-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/sessions\/david-vs-goliathville-a-call-to-arms-for-indie-social-game-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"David vs. GoliathVille: A Call to Arms for Indie Social Game Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Keynote<br \/>SATURDAY, MAY 28TH, 14:00<\/h2>\n<p>As the social gaming space is increasingly dominated by major players, we as an industry already run the risk of stagnation in our newest field. Intended as a call to arms for indies, this talk seeks to dispel the myths surrounding what &#8220;success&#8221; means in social game development. Market share is not the only winning path &#8212; no matter what the VC&#8217;s tell us &#8212; and we\u2019ll break down how indies are in a unique position to innovate, take risks, move fast, and push the medium forward in a way that the lumbering goliaths are unable (or unwilling) to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KeynoteSATURDAY, MAY 28TH, 14:00 As the social gaming space is increasingly dominated by major players, we as an industry already run the risk of stagnation in our newest field. Intended as a call to arms for indies, this talk seeks to dispel the myths surrounding what &#8220;success&#8221; means in social game development. Market share is &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/sessions\/david-vs-goliathville-a-call-to-arms-for-indie-social-game-developers\/\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}