1. Making Crazy Money with Games in the Cloud Brian H. Prince Chief Technical Evangelist – Windows Azure Microsoft Corporation AZR206

3. You have a great game idea.

5. That makes me above average. For once.

9. Casual Games = $2.25 billion

10. And is growing at 20% a year.

13. The average iPhone user spends $9.49 per month. Android is $8.63 per month. Taptitude makes $1,750/day in advertising. Geekworks makes $275K/year.

14. Great Game + Marketing Success

15. Casual games are entrepreneur rich

16. You will probably fail.

17. Sorry.

19. Build game. Magic happens here. Profit.

20. PayFree Play Game Pay Wall

21. Pay Free Play Game Pay

22. Build in friction … so the player can buy it away.

23. ; How to Not Spend Money

24. Moonlighting

25. Using the cloud

26. Target Marketplaces

32. Game State

35. State / Game Match Leaderboard Commerce Inventory Storage Proxy Achievements Notification Communication BLOB Queue Tables SQL Azure

37. Game Services WAZ Storage Worker

38. Shall we play a game?

39. Samples Tankster Windows 8HTML5 Simple Games Tic-Tac-ToeConnect Four Tools Server APIs Client Scripts EaselJS Game Commands Test Client Guidance Docs Architect ure

40. Resources Toolkits: Social Games - http://github.com/WindowsAzure-Toolkits/wa- toolkit-games Android - https://github.com/microsoft-dpe/wa-toolkit-android iOS - https://github.com/microsoft-dpe/wa-toolkit-ios WP7 - http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/

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