Olga Voronina, Head of the Ravenage Business Development Department, told about the process of searching for games in publishing houses engaged in launching PC projects.

Eduard Kumykov, founder and CEO of GOOO.GAMES, shared his experience of developing and launching a casual game on Russian web platforms with App2Top.

At the end of March, it became known that Playkot received a license to release its Spring Valley game in China. About how much money was spent on paperwork, how long it took to wait for the review, what edits needed to be made to the build and much more — in our interview with Evgenia Artemova, bizdev manager of the company.

What can be wrong with working with Annapurna, what pitfalls are there when communicating with Versus Evil and why not all developers should cooperate with Raw Fury and Daedalic,” he said in an interview App2Top.ru Sasha Goodwin, developer of the anticipated indie blockbuster Selfloss.

Traffic exchange between mobile projects is a common story. It’s a completely different matter — “draining” the audience from a PC project to a mobile game. Today it became known how NCSOFT approached this case on the international market.

Gismart shared the history of partnership with the Snapchat platform: how it was possible to enter the platform, what results to achieve and what conclusions to come to.

The Chinese authorities are going to tighten the regulation of developers. To do this, a special game rating system is being introduced in the country. Projects will be evaluated according to several criteria at once, which will form an overall assessment on a five-point system. Games that have received a low score will not be allowed to be released.Perfect World

Indie artist and developer George Zarkua wrote a big thread on his Twitter page about the structure of the hyper-casual games market. He spoke about the history and development of the genre, relations with publishers, filling the market with money and the trend towards wholesale borrowing of other people’s ideas. We share material based on motives.

Todd Kuhns, marketing manager at AppInChina, told about what a game publisher might face when coming to China in his report for WN Winter’21.  We offer a short version of his speech.

Indie publisher Raw Fury decided to take up educational activities. The company shared a sample of the publishing contract that developers sign when working with it. At the same time, the publisher launched a hub with a set of other useful templates.

The coronavirus forced Apple to make allowances for iOS developers. They were given more time to migrate applications to the current iOS 13 SDK.

One of the problems of Stadia is a small library. Google understands this. Therefore, they announced that they were working on a program that would allow independent teams to independently publish games on this cloud platform.

The situation with the games in China last week became a little more transparent. One of the ministries of the country shared how the process of reviewing games for publication is now structured. Specific bans for games distributed in the country have also been published.

The authorities do not have time to process requests from gaming companies left over from last year.

On February 18, the Russian publisher “Buka” announced that together with the German Koch Media will publish games of domestic developers in the USA and Europe. We talked to Alexander Kutekhov, producer of Buki, about the deal, working conditions with the teams and publishing preferences.

During the round table, experts discussed the problems, opportunities and prospects of PC publishing. What to expect from the PC publishing market in the coming years, what challenges developers have to face, should we expect the emergence of a new unified platform, or the market will be fragmented over the next years.

Bad news from China. The stop of video game licensing, which began in March, is being delayed. There is a high probability that the Chinese authorities will not allow the publication of any new games in the country for the next six months.

The Chinese gaming market is under attack. Due to administrative changes, the region was left without new games. The administration, which is responsible for issuing licenses for publishing games, has not issued them since the end of March.