Ani Mohan is the co-founder and former Product Lead of GameSnacks, a platform for HTML5 games with the vision of making games universally accessible across any device, connection and region. We talk about how to put games in the hands of more people, emerging markets, internet connectivity, operating Gamesnacks as part of Google (as the company was founded as part of Google’s Area 120 incubation program) and much more. This interview was recorded in November 2022.
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Timestamps
(0:57) What is GameSnacks?
(07:26) Technical challenges with making games widely accessible
(15:46) Embedded distribution
(19:03) Pros & cons of being part of Google
(24:02) Universality of games
(30:08) How big the gaming market is
(32:11) 2 final questions
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Ani's recommendations
A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster
Tennis
