On March 13, the analytical company App Annie summed up the results of the gaming industry over the past year. She posted a presentation online about the general state of affairs in the market. We have identified 8 main facts.

In the spring of 2017, the Ukrainian company Values Value, founded by Tanya Loktionova (Evdokimenko), conducted a large-scale survey of gaming industry specialists from the CIS about salaries. App2Top.ru publishes excerpts from the results of the study.

Last Thursday, Hunt: Showdown came out in early access. This is a new game from the German Crytek studio. In less than a week, the audience of the game reached 100 thousand players. We talk about the project, its features and the first indicators.

GTX Corp is threatening to sue a Russian developer. He is accused of violating a patent for one of the main mechanics of freeplay – the creation and sale of in-game currency. The plaintiff is ready to solve the problem in a pre-trial manner for money. To what extent this is a common situation and what a lawyer advises in such cases to do, – I understood App2Top.ru .

What is the advantage of an advertising mediator compared to an advertising network, – says Kirill Makarov from Mobio.

On February 20, the Russian developer Black Sun Game Publishing announced a fundraising campaign for the creation of the game “Corsairs: The Black Mark” (“Corsairs 4”). The next day, Dmitry Arkhipov, co-founder of Akella, the developer and publisher of the first three parts, said that the creators of the new game do not have rights to the trademark of the series. App2Top.ru I talked to representatives of both sides of the conflict.

Last August, the game Flippy Knife from the Russian team Beresnev topped the world charts. The studio’s debut project, which previously specialized in graphics and animation, was downloaded 20 million times, and its revenue amounted to a six-figure sum. We publish a story by the founder of the studio Oleg Beresnev about where the team started and how it achieved success.

Today, War Robots is among the Top 60 most profitable mobile games in the USA. But when it was launched, the team ran into problems that could drown the game. What kind of difficulties were they and how they were solved,” said Igor Klyukin, executive director of Pixonic, which developed the game.

What are advertising networks, what are their pros and cons, as well as what is important to remember when working with them, – says Ilya Seregin, FeedWise project manager at Mobio.

We analyze what is meant by the word “offer” when it comes to advertising mobile games and applications. Helps us in this Ilya Seregin, project manager at Mobio.

With the help of events, the Photostrana social network was able to significantly raise the earnings of the internal development – the “Caramel” project. Anna Vyugina, product manager of the social network, shares her experience working on the game.

King’s approach to match game development (three-in-a-row/two-in-a-row) outdated. Adam Telfer, co-founder of Chatterbox Games, told what is replacing the usual Saga-model for the genre on the pages of his blog Mobile Free to Play. We offer a Russian translation of the material.

What questions can a candidate be asked for the position of a mobile game producer, what tasks should he be ready for, – he shared on his Facebook page Ilya Eremeev, who previously served as a creative producer of Game Insight, and now is an executive producer at Mail.ru Games Ventures.

With the help of work on the pop-up, DevGame managed not only to raise the rating of its two applications, but also to significantly increase the number of ratings issued per day. Elena Vereshchagina, CMO of the company, told about how it was done.

What tricks do slot developers resort to? – using the example of Vegas Words, Vasily Sabirov, chief analyst at devtodev, and Alexander Shtachenko, product owner at Panther Gaming and author of the blog, analyzed Progamedev.net .

Scrolling shooter on mobile can earn money. Alexander Enin, head of IT Territory, is sure of this (Mail.Ru Group). With App2Top.ru he shared the story of the development of the mockup Hawk: Freedom Squadron.

Game development is not the healthiest activity today. This is the opinion of Jason Schreier, editor of Kotaku and author of the book about the difficult life of developers “Sweat, Blood and Pixels”. Why so, he told on the pages of The New York Times. We offer a short translation of the material.

App Annie analytical platform has published game download and sales charts for September. Among the world leaders are Honor of Kings, Subway Surfers and Lineage M.

GameAnalytics named the most common mobile game genres, and also told whether retention, session size, ARPPU and the “stickiness” of the project depends on the genre.