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Keep the Story Going Between Updates

Replace a season-shaped calendar with overlapping story arcs, share plans in three honest horizons, and find the clean breaks and heavy releases that give players a reason to stop.

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── THREE LESSONS
~5 MIN EACH
  1. 01LESSON 1 · 5 MIN

    Run Live Ops Like a Soap Opera, Not a Movie

    Map a game's current content as interweaving arcs and identify which arc gives players a reason to return next week.

  2. 02LESSON 2 · 5 MIN

    Share a Roadmap in Three Horizons

    Sort planned work into imminent, in development and in concept, state a caveat for each, and decide what feedback to ask players for.

  3. 03LESSON 3 · 5 MIN

    Remove the Clean Break and the Burnout

    Identify one clean break point in a season structure and redesign it with a staggered or overlapping element, and identify one piece of a weekly update that could be delivered as configuration instead of a new build.

↳CONCLUSION · 3 min

Build Your Always-On Roadmap

Combine arcs, horizons, caveats and one clean-break fix into one roadmap you could publish.

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Take the Keep the Story Going Between Updates quiz.

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