Lucid Games level designer Tom Pugh talks about effective techniques when creating game levels.

A year ago, the three-in-a-row Season Match Puzzle Adventure was released. Since then, the ARPU of the game has grown 150 times. Denis Sedovich, producer of HeroCraft publishing house, told how such dynamics were achieved.

Each team faces a question: how to choose a game for development. Azur Games producer Artur Mostovoy shared with App2Top.ru the way the company decides to launch a new product into production.

During the development of Endless Space 2, the team shared the game design of the game with the community and asked for feedback.

On the example of the game “Caramels” Anna Vyugina, ex-product manager of Fotostrana, spoke about the solutions that helped increase the revenue of the project.

This phrase was dropped in an interview with VentureBeat designer Cyril Lagarick (Cyrille Lagarigue). With her help, Cyril explained his approach to the development of Streets of Rage 4, which he is currently working on.

What is a prototype and how to work on it correctly,” said Kirill Shabordin, technical director of Social Quantum.

British screenwriter and game designer Alexis Kennedy wrote an article on Gamasutra about how not to tire a gamer with information about the game world. Kennedy is known as the author of the browser quest Fallen London and the “bagel” Sunless Sea.

It is considered that the main source of inspiration for the Monument Valley series is paintings by Mauritz Escher. In fact, there are much more sources. Behind each level of the franchise’s games is a piece of art, a photo or even a music video.

On July 31, 2018, the independent studio Bit Kid released a two-dimensional action role-playing film Chasm, which she worked on for five years. Bit Kid Marketing and PR Director Dan Adelman spoke about how the company maintained the interest of players in the project throughout the development period and attracted the attention of a new audience to it.

What becomes the main obstacle for most independent developers? The creator of the indie platformer Spelunky, Derek Yu, tried to answer this question on his Twitter. In his opinion, if a developer wants to succeed in his business, he needs to learn not to abandon projects halfway, but to consistently bring them to the final.

Learning is an important part of any video game. It shows the players the basic mechanics and helps to immerse themselves in the process. But developing a convenient and useful tutorial can be a difficult task. The Game Career Guide resource has collected six recommendations that will help avoid common mistakes.

Gamasutra analyzed the anatomy of the genre of metroidvaniy — two-dimensional action adventure, the foundations of which were laid 30 years ago by Metroid from Nintendo and Castlevania from Konami. These games combined the familiar gameplay of platformers with a vast world that had to be explored during the passage.

At the end of June, Robin Hood Legends was released. This is a new game by the Belarusian studio Neskinsoft. The game is published by Big Fish. The novelty is a puzzle in which the authors mix the principles of classic match-3 fritupley with the mechanics of Triple Town.

There are many tools for organizing and planning work in a game project. The Game Career Guide web edition analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of 8 popular project managers used by game developers.

Sometimes the growth opportunities of business metrics are embedded in non-obvious things. IT Territory managed to achieve an increase in the retention of the first day thanks to the introduction of “deep UX” into the development.

Adam Telfer, co-founder of Chatterbox Games studio, explains in detail what you need to understand and take into account when you develop a game for messenger using the example of projects with Facebook Instant Games. 

The founders of Team Cherry studio described in detail how the indie hit Hollow Knight appeared – from the first ideas to the grueling final testing.

Founder of the game design blog Deconstructor of Fun Michail Katkoff reflects on why Supercell fails to make a genre-forming project out of Brawl Stars and whether the game will die before it reaches the world release. The article examines in detail what happened to the game in four big updates and where the developers made mistakes.