The Khronos Group company, with the support of Valve, LunarG and The Brenwill Workshop, has released the MoltenVK game development platform. It fully supports the Vulkan graphical API on iOS and macOS operating systems.

In 40% of the most profitable games in the match-3 genre, there is an event in which the player is invited to complete a certain number of levels for a reward. The analytical company Playliner told about this in its latest research.

Unity Technologies has acquired the ProBuilder tool. ProBuilder is designed to create levels on the Unity engine. The tool was included in the official Unity development kit.

The Gamasutra publication talked about the Game Accessibility Guidelines resource with tips on developing video games accessible to people with disabilities.

Today, War Robots is among the Top 60 most profitable mobile games in the USA. But when it was launched, the team ran into problems that could drown the game. What kind of difficulties were they and how they were solved,” said Igor Klyukin, executive director of Pixonic, which developed the game.

Independent developer Jake Birkett analyzed how the revenues of the game for the first week and for the first year of sales on Steam correlate. He interviewed 30 developers and gave their answers in the form of a graph.

Almost every significant game studio uses the services of third-party teams in working on AAA titles. This is reported by The Outline, which has studied the gaming outsourcing development market and talked with representatives of several companies.

“Faster does not mean worse,” says independent developer Jake Birkett, speaking about the timing of the creation of video games.

Sometimes the lack of a budget and a lot of experience gives rise to brilliant ideas. The artist Dead Cells has figured out how to create animations for pixel games using 3d cheaply and quickly.

Founder of the independent studio Scared Square Games and game design teacher Stuart Lilford named 5 common mistakes of novice game designers. And he told me how to fix them.

The Unity team wants it to be easier for developers to work with the engine. This is hinted at by the Unity Hub release. The tool allows you to select the version of the engine to work with.

With the help of events, the Photostrana social network was able to significantly raise the earnings of the internal development – the “Caramel” project. Anna Vyugina, product manager of the social network, shares her experience working on the game.

The authors of Max Payne and Quantum Break from the Finnish studio Remedy admitted that the creation of high-budget game projects with an eye to a single game has become unaffordable for most developers.

How to improve in–game events and increase user involvement in the project with their help, – Igor Petrov, Director of Game Design at MyTona, told on the example of Seekers Notes: Hidden Mystery.

Epic Games has announced a revision in the asset store for the Unreal Engine. The owners of the site want to make sure that the authors of the content do not violate intellectual property rights.

Alexander Shilyaev, a leading game designer at the Gardenscapes project (Playrix), shared his experience in developing levels for games in the three-in-a-row genre.

The Unity game engine received a major update before Christmas. In version 2017.3, working with panoramic videos has been simplified and Xbox One X support has appeared.

The third is superfluous. Autodesk has decided to discontinue support and development of the Stingray game engine. The company explained this decision by unwillingness to compete with Unity and Unreal Engine.

BioWare Austin Creative Director James Ohlen spoke about the reasons that inspired the studio to create its own space saga Mass Effect instead of working on the sequel Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic.