Almost half of the mobile devices activated during the December holidays belong to Apple. The information was shared by the analytical company Flurry.

Every day, more than 500 new games appear in the App Store alone. Of these, there are at least a couple worthy of attention per week. It turns out about 100 per year. We have selected the top 10 projects.

Revenue from the sale of their own games is the main source of income for most indie developers. The second most popular is personal savings. This is reported by the results of a study conducted by the Indie Megabooth organizing team.

Read about the latest successes of Clash of Kings and the first winner of the Minecraft championship in our daily column “One line”.

Roman Menyakin, Director of Business Development at Unity in Russia, told App2Top about the past year.

Mentor of the “Games Market” category on vc.ru and Nekki Development Director Sergey Babaev shared with App2Top his thoughts about the outgoing year.

The soft launch of the third “saga” in the match-3 genre from King took place. The game Candy Crush Jelly Saga has launched in Canada.

The movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) stimulated downloads and sales in mobile games based on the franchise. This is according to the results of its own research, the mobile analytics company Sensor Tower reports.

Kirill Petrov, co-founder of i-Free and Managing director of Zillion Whales, told App2Top about the main trends and the best games of 2015.

Ryan Cash from a small indie company Snowman talked to the resource 80.lv about the mobile game Alto’s Adventure. Cash spoke about how the project was created, about the choice of style and about the biggest problems of indie development.

Gaijin Entertainment CEO Anton Yudintsev summed up in a publication for App2Top.ru the results of the outgoing year.

In the new section, we look at the Dashy Crashy runner and two of its features that we really liked.

How to come up with a good game concept, what is the secret of the success of the DomiNations game and a bonus – how to create a beautiful water space on Unity 5.

The organizers of the DevGAMM conferences have published on YouTube all the lectures from the last Minsk event. There were 42 performances in total.

Playrix Creative Director Igor Elovikov said App2Top.ru about the projects that impressed him this year.

DeltaDNA experts told how the creators of the ToysBurg frituplein made the game more profitable.

Creative Mobile Games Business Development Manager Marianna Kryakvina summed up for App2Top.ru the results of the fifteenth year.

The evangelist of Epic Games, which develops Unreal Engine, shared with App2Top.ru with your thoughts about the outgoing year.

How an indie developer can start collaborating with Microsoft, where to look for free art for his project, what the stars of the gaming industry are preparing for the coming year – all this is in our selection of the main materials of the past week.