Episode Details

In this Metacast episode, Joost van Dreunen, Tammy Levy and Abhimanyu Kumar join your host Maria Gillies to discuss:

#1 X-Hero: Scam or Anti-Hero: What’s behind X-Hero’s success and is it sustainable?

#2 Meta Mechanics in Casual Games: Is the hybrid-casual genre still relevant today?

#3 Power Dynamics Between Platforms and Publishers: How have platforms and publishers changed in the past decade?

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