Home Sweet Home

Got back from Monaco a couple of hours ago to a nice brew and a lay down. Sadie was still up and had a smile and a cuddle for me. She's been working at Gamesauce for her 2 week placement and seems to be enjoying it (she'll probably enjoy it less when I get back in tomorrow ;).

Once we were above the clouds, we couldn't see land until decending into Leeds Bradford. We knew it wasn't going to be too sunny here. Got clear of the airport in 40 mins or so and was home for 10ish.

On balance, the Monaco conference, although quiet, turned out to be worthwhile. I made a very interesting contact and will be following up on that over the coming months. This was quite aside from the interesting and frank discussions I had with a fair few people about the mobile market. Below the operators, it's a real mess but interesting applications are being developed that could be incredibly profitable for the developer. The big problems are costly data rates and getting people to actually see your product. Although we'll soon have flat rate data calls in the UK, I don't think people browse around on their mobiles, it's clumsy and not very satisfying, so unless you're on the "games link" of an operator, your game isn't seen and the size of the market is irrelevant. One guy told me that the mobile operators recoup their capital investment every 7 days, they paid a bob or two for the licences of course, but it's essentially a licence to print money.