Game Developers’ Business Models – The Key Activities Exploration

Aussie women game developers

Women are underrepresented in the digital games industry all over the world. In Australia, women’s level of contribution to game development is much lower than the USA, Canada, and UK. Reviewing literature from the areas of computer science, information technology, and digital games, this study focuses on the impact of social, structural and cultural aspects, and how these factors might influen...

Empirical investigation of key business factors for digital game performance

Game development is an interdisciplinary concept that embraces software engineering, business, management, and artistic disciplines. This research facilitates a better understanding of the business dimension of digital games. The main objective of this research is to investigate empirically the effect of business factors on the performance of digital games in the market and to answer the resear...

Trends in Biopharmaceutical Alliances for the Key Business Models

The Business Process Game

Recently, gamification – the augmentation of work with game elements – attracted tremendous interest and has become one of the most important trends in digital business strategy1. In this paper, the authors elaborate on the opportunities to gamify operative business process management, in particular process enactment, and show various ways to engage process participants in their daily work, sup...

Business models for Serious Games developers - transition from a product centric to a service centric approach

In the context of the serious games industry, up to now the most commonly used business models (BM) among developers representing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) consists in offering an individual product to the customer, based on tailored one-of a kind production. Such production has high costs and low re-usability and leads to a long time-to-market. For an industry dealing with products h...