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Eating Dogs and Making Hyper Casual Games Christian Calderon is a mobile game executive and entrepreneur who recently co-founded his second hyper-casual game studio in Ho Chi Minh City. He's also an Advisory Board member at Ketchapp which was Acquired by Ubisoft. We talk with Christian about living in Asia, his game industry journey, and some of the nitty-gritty of developing and monetizing mobile games. Christian's Links: https://gamejam.co/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/xtiancalderon/ Table of Contents: 00:35 - Intro 01:28 - Christian's Vietnam Journey Thus Far, Travel in SEA 02:42 - Exploring a Country Through Its Cuisine 04:24 - Chris's Game Industry Experience, from Fan to Ceo 06:33 - Game Life Cycles - Hard Core Console vs Mobile 07:57 - What Keeps Christian in the Game Industry 09:50 - What's Gamejam working on? 11:49 - The New Mac Pro and Buggy Laptop Keyboards 17:38 - Master Class 25:44 - Eating Dogs and Cultural Experiences 28:15 - Cultural Differences when Crossing the Street in USA, Vietnam, Japan 33:57 - Breaking Rules in Games 36:50 - When Does Christian Decide to Continue Developing A Game and When To Kill A Game 39:35 - Increasing User Retention 41:43 - The State of the Mobile Game Industry in 2019/2020 45:24 - Monetization in Mobile Games 47:50 - State of the Art in Game Monetization 53:20 - Getting a Job in the Videogame Industry 58:19 - Outro Hashtags: #hypercasual #saigon #vietnam #mobile #gamedevelopment #monetization #entrepreneurship #cuisine This episode is also available to watch as a video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/GT6ZkPo1xKo