Director and game designer of Creoteam Andrey Kosciusko in his blog described in detail how his team’s latest game is a turn-based strategy Football Tactics – managed to pass the Greenlight on the Steam platform without getting into the Top 100 there, and also shared how he promoted the project. With the kind permission of the author, we publish the material on our pages.

The British company Marmalade, the author of the cross-platform SDK of the same name, has released two new sets of tools for creating 2D and 3D games. They are called Marmalade 2D Kit and 3D Kit.

The authors of the Dropbox file storage service presented a service that can help teams work together and discuss projects.

The Unity Analytics service has received an update. There is a click map (heatmaps) and a beta version of Unity In App Purchase. A message about this appeared on the company’s blog.

Intel has announced the launch of a beta version of the Multi-OS Engine tool. With its help, developers will be able to create native mobile applications for iOS and Android in Java on Windows and/or OS X.

The independent Stoic Games team, which owns the authorship of The Banner Saga game, is ready to share its own game engine with indie developers. This was told by the technical director of the studio John Watson (John Watson) in an interview with the resource Develop Online.

The game of the Boston studio Oniix was copied by Chinese clone makers. The team shared their experience of dealing with them. We offer you a translation.

The experience of passing Greenlight in the official blog of the Message Quest game was shared by its author and developer Maria Kravtsova. With the kind permission of Maria, we have published the material on our pages.

There are enough tutorials and forums on the Web about the technical aspects of pixel animation. Therefore, Jonathan Kim and Paul Robertson, the authors of the animation for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, give some general tips on how to make sprites that will stand out from the general background and attract the attention of players.

The Canadian company Fabric Engine Inc. has released the second version of the platform of the same name for creating visualizations, animations and 3D graphics.

In the West, unlike Russia, which still positions itself as the most reading country in the world, mobile book games are very common. Moreover, they cannot be called a very narrow niche. Popular resources write reviews on them, they are given high marks, it comes to the point that some of them become the games of the year. One of such popular games was 80 Days from inkle studio, also known for the Sorcery series!

Chukong USA, the American daughter of Chinese Chukong Technologies, has released an SDKBOX service designed for easy integration of third-party plugins into the Cocos2d-x engine.

French artist and game designer Nathan Lovato told us exactly how to improve the graphics of the game. We have translated the text and are sharing it with you.

Apple has changed the rules for Apple TV developers. Now any game under tvOS must support the remote control, which is equipped with “Apple” set-top boxes.

Ron Gilbert, who worked on Maniac Mansion and the first two games of the Monkey Island series, recently started developing the adventure game Thimbleweed Park with the help of Kickstarter. In the blog of the project, he told how he plans the budget of the game.

“We are already working on transferring the Unity runtime and all games created on Unity to a new platform,” Mantas Puida, an iPhone team leader, said yesterday in the official blog of the engine.

The authors of the iOS application “Skazbuka” (PlayBC) – the GrommGame team – shared with App2Top.ru the results of a two-year study of the links between patterns in thinking and games, resulting in a new game theory.

Soomla, the creator of the open source framework of the same name, has published a selection of resources with free 2D and 3D assets in its own blog for developers. And we share them with you.

Epic Games has made available for free download and use all the graphic and audio content of the never-released role-playing game Infinity Blade: Dungeons.