Harshal Karvande, Game Design Lead at Rovio, on a designer’s POV on LiveOps.

<p>On today&#39;s episode of Mastering Retention, <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://harshalkarvande.medium.com/">Harshal Karvande</a>, Game Design Lead at <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.rovio.com/">Rovio</a>, joins us to talk about how he started in India and ended up in Finland, what it means to create a LiveOps strategy based on player behavior and how to align yourself to the flow of your audience. During the episode, he provides several real-life examples that make his concepts and logic very fun and easy to understand. </p><p>Highlights of today&#39;s episode: </p><ul><li>Getting a masters in New media design in India </li><li>Why are Finnish games so successful </li><li>How impactful the why behind a company can be </li><li>What is the purpose of live ops from his perspective</li><li>Creating a LiveOps strategy based on player behavior </li><li>Aligning yourself to the flow of your audience </li><li>How he, as a designer, uses the user data that is collected </li><li>One tip or trick to increase retention</li></ul><p>Follow <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://medium.com/game-design-post">his blog on medium</a></p><p>Connect with him on <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshalkarvande/">LinkedIn</a></p>