RunOut joined Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2024 during one of the busiest weeks in the global game industry calendar.
On March 18–19, 2024, WakaStudio brought RunOut to Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco.
During one of the busiest weeks on the game-industry calendar, the city fills with developers, publishers, platform teams, investors, artists, designers, and people capable of discussing retention metrics before breakfast.
Naturally, RunOut joined the crowd.
Pocket Gamer Connects has a different rhythm from a traditional consumer exhibition. The focus includes meetings, pitching, networking, and conversations between teams from across the industry.
For a small studio, that means testing more than gameplay.
It tests how clearly we can explain the game.
What is RunOut?
Who is it for?
Why would someone want to play another round?
These are simple questions until someone expects the answer in under a minute.
Fortunately, RunOut has a straightforward core: short online multiplayer races through obstacle-filled stages where players avoid hazards, interfere with one another, and compete for the final objective.
The rules are readable.
The other players are the unpredictable part.
Industry events also give us a different type of feedback. Players may focus on controls and moment-to-moment fun. Developers ask about production. Publishers may look at audience and positioning.
Together, those perspectives help us understand the project more clearly.
San Francisco became another stop during a busy international period for RunOut and another chance to bring a game built in Bangkok into conversations with people from around the world.
Some events give us player reactions.
Some give us industry feedback.
All of them teach us something.
And most of them teach us that carrying demo hardware through airports is not the glamorous part of game development.
Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco became another point on RunOut’s international map and another step in WakaStudio’s growth as an independent studio.
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