🎮 App Showcase: First Time User Experience & Onboarding
The first few minutes of your game make or break whether someone keeps playing. Nailing the onboarding experience sets players up to actually stick around. In this session, Start Mentors Shane, Quentin, and Tevfik will each spotlight a game or app from the Start program with a standout first-time user experience. They'll break down what works, why it works, and what you can take away for your own projects. What to expect: Real examples from games on the platform — not abstract best practices Mentor picks with hands-on breakdowns of onboarding flows that land Actionable takeaways you can apply to your own first-time user experience Join on Zoom🎊 Live Events | When, Why & How
Looking for ways to keep players engaged and coming back to your app? Join Gabe Heiland, Meta Growth Insights Specialist for a practical workshop on designing and implementing live events in your VR games. This session will cover how to make focused changes to gameplay activities and rewards that drive player acquisition, boost retention, and increase monetization in live games. Join on Zoom🙌 Workshop | Practical Hand Tracking in Unity
Are you ready to level up your app's immersion? Join Start Mentor Valem for a hands-on workshop building on last month's advanced hand tracking session, where you will work directly in a Unity project, implementing finger pinch, microgestures, and hand pose recognition. By the end of this session, you'll know how to read these inputs, integrate them step by step, and compare them to choose the right interaction method based on best practices and design goals. Join on Zoom📈 Tune It: Performance and Optimization Clinic
Close to publishing your app, but running into performance issues? Join Start Mentor Sidney for this hands-on performance and optimization clinic where you can bring your project and analyze it using industry standard profiling tools and techniques to uncover what’s holding your app back. Are you an optimization pro? Join in to help investigate other member’s crashes, memory leaks, and performance bottlenecks. Join on Zoom📈 Tune It: Performance and Optimization Clinic
Close to publishing your app, but running into performance issues? Join Start Mentor Sidney for this hands-on performance and optimization clinic where you can bring your project and analyze it using industry standard profiling tools and techniques to uncover what’s holding your app back. Are you an optimization pro? Join in to help investigate other member’s crashes, memory leaks, and performance bottlenecks. Join on Zoom📈 Tune It: Performance and Optimization Clinic
Close to publishing your app, but running into performance issues? Join Start Mentor Sidney for this hands-on performance and optimization clinic where you can bring your project and analyze it using industry standard profiling tools and techniques to uncover what’s holding your app back. Are you an optimization pro? Join in to help investigate other member’s crashes, memory leaks, and performance bottlenecks. Join on Zoom📈 Tune It: Performance and Optimization Clinic
Close to publishing your app, but running into performance issues? Join Start Mentor Sidney for this hands-on performance and optimization clinic where you can bring your project and analyze it using industry standard profiling tools and techniques to uncover what’s holding your app back. Are you an optimization pro? Join in to help investigate other member’s crashes, memory leaks, and performance bottlenecks. Join on Zoom🎮 Free-to-Play Academy: Retention + Store Team Q&A
Tune in for another Free-to-Play Academy episode on Retention! Curious how successful games keep players coming back? Watch with us and learn: Proven tactics to boost player retention How to design engaging core loops and set effective short-term goals Ways to use social features and events to drive engagement What retention metrics matter most and how to track them Stick around for a live Q&A with our Store team—share your questions and get expert advice during the session! Don’t miss out—level up your retention strategy and connect with the community! Join on Zoom
✅ Fast Essentials - Retention: Quests and Badges
Making a game players want to keep coming back to isn’t easy. Join Start Mentor Tevfik to learn implementation strategies for quests and daily login rewards that incentivize players with both high and low value items and interactions. You’ll also see actionable techniques for designing grindable badges and enticing leaderboards. Join on Zoom📅 Fast Essentials - Retention: Live In-Game Events
Bring your game to life with planned in-game events! Connect with your player base and get valuable feedback from your most dedicated users. Join Start Mentor Tevfik in this session and you’ll learn the essentials of designing a live event that works and how to support community leaders with activations that highlight your players. Join on Zoom
