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Frank Yan (Senior Game Designer, Brawl Stars, Supercell)
Frank Keienburg (General Manager, Brawl Stars, Supercell)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass - Get your pass now!
Topic: Design
Format: Session
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All
Frank Keienburg, General Manager for Brawl Stars and Frank Yan, Game Designer of Brawl Stars will discuss the process of removing lootboxes from Brawl Stars entirely and how the game became less engaging as a result. We will then cover what we did in the year since and the subsequent results. We will speak to the impact of randomized rewards for the game as well as how we analyze what's right for the game using a combination of community sentiment, data, and designer intuition.
This will require PR approval from Supercell prior to publishing.
This talk will provide our learnings for the role of randomized rewards, how we removed them from Brawl Stars, and why we decided to add them back as engagement-based rewards in the year following and should serve as a reference point for others considering the use of them for their games. This will require PR approval from Supercell prior to publishing.
For anyone considering reasons to add random rewards into their game and when to use them vs. deterministic rewards. This talk should serve as a reference point for Developers and Designers and walks through the process of how we removed Loot Boxes from Brawl Stars and how we redesigned them to be added back into the game subsequently. This will require PR approval by Supercell prior to publishing.
