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Seasoned developer Caryl Shaw tells why she quit making free-to-play games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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When it comes to free-to-play games, Caryl Shaw has been there, done that. And the veteran game developer said she has had enough for now.

Shaw, who formerly worked on free-to-play titles for several game companies, plans to give a talk entitled, “Reclaiming My Soul: Why I Quit Making F2P Social Games” at the Game Developers Conference Next conference in Los Angeles in November. In an interview with GamesBeat, she said she’ll talk about her career shift from traditional games to mobile free-to-play social games and then back to her current position as an executive producer making high-quality titles at developer Telltale Games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.