Publishers

How we add value for publishers.

Inspired by the desire to support publishers effectively partnering with globally diverse studios and getting successful products into the hands of players everywhere, we see every client’s unique needs as an opportunity to partner and collaborate in implementing the best practices we’ve honed over 30+ years creating successful games and building valuable businesses.

Make better informed investment decisions

  • Conduct pre-investment due-diligence of potential development partners and products covering studio culture, product planning, development capacity & capabilities, budget, forecasts, go-to-market strategy and live-operations capabilities.
  • Insights in effectively operating a globally diverse developer portfolio.
  • Insights into regionally diverse player motivations & desires.

Increase confidence of product success

  • Help foster healthy, productive, mutually beneficial relationships between partners.
  • Introduce and implement mature and proven ‘GSD’ production methodologies to development partners.
  • Increase production predictability through identification, mitigation and validation of creative, technical and production challenges.
  • Verify workforce capacity and capability with product scope and ambitions.
  • Optimally integrate community, marketing & live operations into the game development team and processes.
  • Define go-to-market strategies and complimentary launch plans.

Help painlessly grow and evolve your business

  • Advise on scaling your product portfolio and/or development partner network.
  • Advise on fostering healthy partnerships with development & licensing partners.
  • Advise on and manage integration of acquisition targets.
  • Provide additional ‘Operations as a Service’ across finance, legal & HR.

Contact us to discuss how we can add value.