Industry veteran Ken Landen joins the podcast to deep dive into the mobile game 'Legend of Mushroom' with discussions on game mechanics, in-game purchases, player engagement, battle pass systems, optimization strategies, critique of game mechanics, and analysis of game design elements.

GameMakers features Matej Lancaric and Jakub Reimar from 2.5 Gamers and Ken Landen, former PM at Kongregate, Scopely, Blizzard, and Hit Factor. They discuss the rise in downloads and daily revenue of Supercell's Brawl Stars, highlighting the influence of influencers, the difference between micro and macro in gaming, Brawl Stars progression and gameplay, incentivizing engagement and spending, event structure and quest cadence, advertising channels, low user acquisition efforts, and the future of Brawl Stars.