The St. Petersburg White Nights session starts in less than a month. As always, the Indie Game Cup competition will be held as part of the conference. What is the meaning of this event and what is the practical benefit of it — one of the winners of the contest told App2Top.

The organizers of the White Nights gaming business conference have published a preliminary schedule of the summer session, which will be held in St. Petersburg.

The White Nights conference will be held in St. Petersburg from June 14 to 15. The event will host an exhibition of game developers, where stands are given to teams for free.

On April 9, the Spb Gamedev Meet-up was held at the headquarters of the VKontakte social network. The issuing editor App2Top.ru with a story about how it was.

A report by Yulia Lebedeva from Nevosoft at White Nights Prague 2017. She talked about how the Digital Star tool works.

A round table on in-game economics and analytics, which was held at White Nights Prague 2017.

Report by Rami Jawhar and Felipe Iregui from Google. They talk about building a “golden path” to monetize players using data on when they are happiest.

Virtual reality round table held at White Nights Prague 2017.

Report by Yunoïa CEO Sebastian Pacetti at White Nights Prague 2017. He tells you when and how to show the game to publishers.

A report by Miikka Luotio from Tilting Point at White Nights Prague 2017. He talks about how to find and seduce a publisher with his game.

A report by Microsoft technical evangelist Martin Simecek at White Nights Prague 2017. He talks about how cloud technologies can be used for game development.

A report by Eugen Harton from Bohemia Interactive at White Nights Prague 2017. He tells what he learned from the experience of launching DayZ in early access on Steam.

A report by Markus Tessmann from InnoGames. The speaker talks about the modifications of meshes in the runtime environment.

A report by Josh Naylor from Unity. The speaker talks about Unity optimization methods that will help avoid interruptions in the game and make it smooth.

A report by Jan Kavan from CBE software s.r.o. The speaker talks about how to use the Blueprints language in Unreal Engine 4.

A report by Marek-Martin Matiska from Gamajun Games. The speaker talks about the mistakes and difficulties that the company had to face when creating the Take Cover game.

The report of Miglė Šaulytė from TutoTOONS. The speaker talks about how to become a game designer and start creating games.

A report by Daniel Maslovsky from Craneballs. The speaker talks about the experience of using Unity in a survival game for PC.

Report by Jakub Dočkal from Alda Games. Using the example of the game “Killing Room”, the speaker talks about how to attract the attention of YouTubers and influencers to the game.