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The Road to be the official music game in Thailand - Thapster

Jan 14, 2015

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Wasin Thonkaew

Thapster, a no.1 massive hit of music game in Thailand. It reached 500,000 downloads and 2M gameplay-times within 5 months of Thai iOS App Store.

Mr.Thitipong Krungkaew, (Co-Founder & Producer) and
Mr.Ratapatr Chotimongkol (Business Development Manager)

both from Sinoze Game Studio will be sharing with us about their journey for the road to success of making Thapster the no.1 hit of music game in Thailand. The story will include approaches they were using both in terms of business and production, problems they faced and how they resolved them, vision of the team and the app itself including all other misc story along the journey.

See the meetup event link at http://www.meetup.com/Indie-game-developers-and-development/events/139630732/.
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Page 1: The Road to be the official music game in Thailand - Thapster

Presents

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Who am I ?

Sinoze Co-founderCTOProducer of Thapster

Past :Graphics Programmer

Now :CodeManage ProjectDesign QAFanpage Admin, Order Pizza

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Topics Thapster History Problems Achievement The Future Lessons Learned

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“The First Official Thai Music Game On Mobile”

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#1 Official Thai Music Game

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High Quality App

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Featured App

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Data Overview

Average Plays / Day 278,281

680,461 installs Soon...

Time Spend / Session 17.6 min

~30,000,000 plays

Data Collected on September 27th 2013

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Free iPhone “Game” Ranking

Thapster Ranking

LINE POP Ranking

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Entertainment “Half-life”

Music 25 - 1000 yearsFilm 5 - 25 yearsGame 2 - 5 yearsMobile Game 1/2 - 2 years

The shorter the half-life, the more power the creator holds

Reference : Unite 2013 Keynote

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The Community

● Updates● Song Request● Live Support● Android ???

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History

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$$$

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Freedom

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Research Research Research

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Understanding market

TapSonic (2011)

Tap Tap Revenge 4 (2010)

Cytus (2012)

Jukebeat (2011) Beat Sneak Bandit (2012)

Groove Coaster (2011)

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Incubation Period

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Concept Art

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Planning

“Business Plan”

Monetization

Production/ Programming

Marketing

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Pitching Investors

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Prototyping

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Testing Market

FatFest 2012

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Building the Team

Sinoze Office

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Drama

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1. Users

4. Music Labels 3. Advertiser / Ad Network

Stakeholders2. Product Development

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Problems1.1.Thai Users do not

purchase songs

2. Advertising Selling / Operation

● Advertising● Alternative Payment Gateway● Items Shop

● Build larger Users● Co - Promotion Program● Direct Customers

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Problems

3. No Sales Pack/ No Exact Price

● Co Promotion Program (itune/ facebook/ youtube)

● Satisfaction Discrimination● Profit Share/ Fix Amount

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Future Plan

Thapster 2.0

Internationalized Music Game

International Social/ Casual Game

Better UI/UX designItem ShopPayment GatewayNew Social Features

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Lessons Learn

Be friend with everyones

Fails Lead Success

Lean as you can

Stay Focus and Motivate

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Contact: [email protected] , Tel. 090-971-2235

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