The VKontakte social network will host the VK High Score conference in Moscow on October 12. It is aimed at developers of games for VK social and mobile platforms.

The Indie Game Cup game project competition will be held again at White Nights in Moscow. Acceptance of applications has already begun and will last until the twentieth of September.

The program White Nights Moscow 2017 appeared on the network. Among the speakers of the conference for game developers are representatives of Obsidian, Playtika, Epic Games and King.

The Moscow session of White Nights, which will be held from October 10 to 11, will host the traditional exhibition of game developers for the conference. The organizers report that there are only 20 empty seats left on it.

A report by Andre Krug from SOFTGAMES. The speaker spoke about how the global HTML5 games market looks like in general, what are the opportunities of this market, who are the most significant players and what awaits this segment of the industry in 2018.

A report by Indra Elisabete Priede from IBCC. She talked about how, when and where to open your IT business, in which country it is better to develop an existing business. Indra also spoke about the countries that are popular in the IT industry.

A report by Alexander Grach from AppsFlyer. He talked about how to recognize and combat advertising fraud in mobile, which new metrics (useful in combating fraud) should be paid close attention to by game studios, as well as what can be learned from the example of developing products to combat advertising fraud.

Report by Sjoerd De Jong from Epic Games. He talked about what Unreal Engine 4 is at the moment. The speaker also reviewed the latest updates and told how the engine can be useful to studios from a business point of view.

A report by Andrey Zimenko from Wargaming. He spoke about those aspects that are important to take into account and prepare for the release of the project in the soft launch. He also shared recommendations that will significantly improve the effectiveness of the project in a short time.

A report by Kirill Zolovkin from OctoBox Interactive. He traced the 15-year evolution of GameMaker and looked into the future of the most affordable game designer, with which you can do cool things without programmers.

A report by Leonid Yeletskikh from Adjust. Marketers need new, more advanced tools to work with large amounts of data, segment them in real time, and send personalized messages to users. At the same time, they need to know that user purchases are not fraudulent. Leonid Yeletskikh told about how to achieve these goals.

Report by Jari Paananen from Traplight. He talked about how Big Bang Racing players created 7 million levels for each other, and what advantages Traplight studio derived from this.

Report by Romuald Zdebsky (Microsoft) and Andrey Ivashentsev (Game Insight). The speakers analyzed more than ten technical scenarios using cloud technologies and explained in which cases their use is justified and in which cases it is not. In addition, they reviewed several well-known games that were created using cloud solutions.

Dmitry Krutitsky ‘s report from Mail.Ru The speaker talked about how to use the myTracker tool to cope with data analysis, collect all the data in the right slices in one window, as well as evaluate traffic and predict user behavior.

A report by Alice Chumachenko and Peter Romov from GOSU.AI . They talked about artificial intelligence and how it can change the business landscape, especially in the gaming industry. They explained the basics of machine learning and showed real cases of using machine learning for game design and business to improve their performance.

A report by Sven Erik Knop from Perforce Software. The speaker spoke about the version control system, as well as how to make a project successful with the help of a leading version control tool.

A report by Andrey Zimenko from Wargaming. The speaker presented a new structure in Wargaming, which is designed to strengthen the company’s presence in the mobile market, and also offers various options for partnership with developers.

Report by Valeria Andrianova from JetBrains. She talked about how agile is prepared in the company — using live examples of a variety of teams: product, marketing, design and technical writing teams.

Report by Marina Michkova from Yandex. She talked about which Yandex products and how to increase revenue from monetization of Russian-language mobile app traffic.