Pavel Ryakkonen, Executive Director of Nevosoft, spoke about how the last 12 months have passed for the company, and also highlighted the central trends of the outgoing year.
Year for the company
From the point of view of game development, this year we had, to a greater extent, let’s say, production. Most of the projects are at the final and prefinal stages, so we will see their launch next year.
We managed to launch Lands of War on Facebook this year. This is a project of the Moscow studio Nevosoft Online. The project turned out to be interesting and promising, next year will show how much.
Also recently, but still this year, the long-announced Digital Star project was finally launched. This is a virtual loyalty card for digital content consumers. The first partners have already been connected to the system, many new ones are in the process. We invite everyone. This is exactly the case when it turns out to build a win-win cooperation between developers, service and end users.
Event of the year in the world
Pokémon GO. There seems to be nothing to explain here, this topic has been discussed many times in the relevant media, and not so much. I don’t remember such a resonant release of a game project involving such a large number of players around the world in just weeks or months.
Trend of the year
This year, perhaps, was held under the motto of universal interest in VR /AR. I would also note the growing interest in HTML5 mobile games and messenger games, in fact, also on HTML5. Big platforms are paying serious attention to this, it will be interesting to see what happens in the end.
Game of the Year
As mentioned above – Pokémon GO!