Sony has published a small guide for indie developers on pitching games. The company told what you should pay attention to when applying, and also clarified which questions should be answered before presenting your project for PlayStation.Journey

The British company Chucklefish, which accounts for the development of Starbound and the publication of Stardew Valley, has published a guide on pitching games. It contains tips on how to prepare for the presentation of the project and what publishers pay attention to. We share the main material.

The game currency is the basis of any frituplein economy, according to the product manager of Tilting Point Javier Barnes (Javier Barnes). In total, he identifies 11 of its types.

Producer Egor Vasiliev wrote a lot of material about the experience of cloning a game in the genre of “spot the difference”. He talked about budgets, difficulties during development, softlonch, release and first results.

The plot is a rare guest in construction simulators. This is a big omission of the developers, according to PCGamesN. In a recent article, the portal told how the narrative makes such games deeper and more attractive for gamers. We have chosen the main thing from the publication.

How to conduct effective events in mobile games to get high engagement and ARPDAU, — Louise Lu, Assistant Product Manager at Tilting Point, told on the example of Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest. We have selected the main tips from the material.

EverMerge is a puzzle with merge mechanics from the Belarusian studio Neskin, which has become a big hit and has earned $50 million over the past seven months. Deconstructor of Fun has an analysis of the game with an analysis of the elements that helped it become successful.

Where should I start hyper-casual game design: with core mechanics or meta games? What should be the approach to promoting hyper-casual titles? Christian Calderon, the former chief marketing officer of PlayDots and the current CEO of Gamejam, told about this and not only.

Epic Games has introduced an update for the Unreal Engine. A number of significant changes have been added to the engine version 4.26, including a new system of water and clouds, as well as an editor for creating realistic hair and wool.

How Zynga looks at game design, — the leading designers of FarmVille 2: Country Escape, Poornima Seetharaman and Vimal Sathish, told at the online Talents in Games Conference.

The top genres in terms of revenue in the niche of erotic games are the same as on mobile: role—playing games with gacha, as well as three-in-a-row. Grigory Sokolov, senior designer at Nutaku Publishing, told about this at the online Talents in Games Conference.

While multiplayer GTA V and Call of Duty: Black Ops III are leading in the top sales for PS4, Sony itself says — in fact, players like single-player games much more. That’s just that users have almost no time for them. The company offers developers to disclose information about the length of quests and allow gamers to run tasks in a convenient sequence.

This summer, the Polish studio Phobia Game Studio released a horror-metroidvaniya called Carrion. How the idea of the project came about, what I had to face when creating a navigation system for an amorphous monster, and whether there will be Carrion crossovers with other titles — said level designer Krzysztof Chomicki.

Next year, the French indie studio Un Je Ne Sais Quoi will release the adventure game Dordogne. It will be a pastoral watercolor story, immersing in the world of childhood memories. In an interview with Gamasutra, the art director of the project shared the nuances of game development.

The Russian UNIGINE engine has received a large-scale update. The developers have added new features to it, which can also be used for game development. Among them are updated clouds and a new smoothing technology.

A new free LDtk level editor has appeared on the web. Its author is the creator of Dead Cells. The project is open source and is aimed primarily at indie developers.Attention to LDtk was recently drawn to the publication 80 Level, and for the first time the developer presented his project back in September.

A new game competition is in full swing right now. This time, HTML5 projects are on the wanted list. The winners will receive both cash prizes in the amount of $ 5 thousand to $ 10 thousand, and service ones. The acceptance of works will end this weekend.

Discussing the success of Genshin Impact. The other day it became known that only the mobile version of the game collected $ 140 million. Alexander Bazhan, Head of the Game Analytics and Design Department at My.Games Venture Capital, helped us figure out the secret of Genshin Impact.

What mistakes are most often made when creating levels, — said the senior game designer Mail.ru Group Mikhail Goransky, responsible for the design of Bombastic Brothers.