In September, the artbook for the League of Legends game went on sale. Editorial Office App2Top.ru I talked to a representative of Riot Games about the goals of the project and the efforts spent on it.

The other day, VK support appeared in Castle Clash, which has been leading the Google Play box office top in Russia for three years. We talked about the deal and the game itself with Timofey Fadeev, brand manager at IGG.

Why Magisteron studio refuses Unity and leaves mobile, how the gaming industry turned “wrong way” where to sell its art – we tell about this and much more in the most interesting materials of the week.

In the third issue of the development diaries, the OWL-studio team shares how they worked on emotions for the characters in One Day in London.

In August, the total turnover of payments in online multiplayer games in Russia increased by 20%, and the receipt – by 13% compared to the same indicators a year earlier.

If you don’t have a soul for office work, and you don’t want to waste your nerves on the freelance exchange, then you can sell your art on special markets for game dev artists. We made a selection of the top 5 resources where game art is sold. We share.

The analytical company Playliner has released a study on the types of battles and character development in mobile games of the battler genre. We publish part of this study with the permission of the authors.

Discworld Noir and Ghost Master designer Chris Bateman laments that the gaming industry has “turned the wrong way” in his blog on Gamasutra. SoftPressRelease translated the material into Russian specifically for App2Top.ru .

About the history of Hybrid Wars development, the project itself, as well as working with WG Labs, – App2Top.ru I talked to the Extreme Developers team.

So many games have already been released on Defold, which studios inside King use it and how big is the engine community in Russia, – App2Top.ru Oleg Pridyuk, an evangelist at King, told us.

Today is a day of sad news. Marmalad will no longer develop its engine, Blizzard’s senior vice president of creative development is retiring, Pokemon GO has lost 79% of paying players in a month.

The author of the meditative games Flower and Journey told the Gamasutra resource about the creation of the game Abzu. We have translated the interview and are sharing it with you.

On the eve of the second wave of closed beta testing of action-MMO “Pirates: Allods Online“, which starts on September 15, we talked with the project manager Alexey Kornev about the history of the game and the specifics of its development.

The ratings given by users to games on Steam are no longer taken into account if access to projects was obtained through a digital key.

The author of Cut the Rope and King of Thieves, the Moscow company ZeptoLab, is looking for new games to publish. About what ZeptoLab expects from projects and what it is ready to offer to developers, App2Top.ru Mikhail Sviblov, the head of the company’s publishing direction, told the audience.

All the main business news and development of the gaming industry for the day in one publication.

Rob Pardo, Blizzard’s creative director and World of Warcraft designer, founded the Bonfire gaming startup. The studio has raised $25 million and will start releasing online multiplayer.

Superdata compared the dynamics of monthly earnings of seven popular mobile games with each other.

Of the total number of downloaded applications in the world, paid installations account for only 10%. Most of the downloads are organic,” the marketing company Tune assures in its research.