Creative Mobile Games Business Development Manager Marianna Kryakvina summed up for App2Top.ru the results of the fifteenth year.

The evangelist of Epic Games, which develops Unreal Engine, shared with App2Top.ru with your thoughts about the outgoing year.

What should a community manager do if the entire development team went to celebrate the New Year? In response to this question, the Gamasutra resource published detailed instructions. We share a retelling.

Digital marketing specialist Logan Williams told in a blog about several of the most common mistakes that indie developers make when creating their own website. We share a retelling.

Zuckerberg’s social network summed up the gaming results of the outgoing year by presenting its own selection of projects that it considered the best.

There are three central mobile markets in the world today: Japan, the USA and China. About how you can get to the last one, – App2Top.ru Yulia Nabieva told me.

The Developer Online resource discussed with the heads of major studios what a developer needs to do to find the right publisher. We share a retelling.

Levi Buchanan, head of development at Chillingo, talked about which games have a chance of success and which do not.

The publisher of Clicker Heroes and Wartune answered the questions App2Top.ru and DataLead about the Russian market and the differences between our players and the Chinese.

At a master class held in mid-October from the Higher School of Business Informatics of the HSE “Gaming industry: an inside look” Vyacheslav Utochkin, producer of the educational program “Management of Internet gaming projects” and author of the course “Operating game projects”, talked about how much it costs to make your own mobile and browser game and how much they earn the games have the largest developers. We present to your attention the full transcript…

Halloween, All Saints’ Day, will take place tomorrow, October 31. On its eve, we decided to see exactly how some market players update their products for this holiday.

Where the most loyal players live in Southeast Asia and in which country almost all gamers are men, – said the expert of Gametop.

Recently, the studio Seriously shared the preliminary results of an advertising campaign with the participation of letsplayers. The event raised downloads to 250 thousand per day. CEO and co-founder of the studio Andrew Stalbow (Andrew Stalbow) spoke about the details of the campaign to the Medium resource. We offer you a translation.

The Midora game has collected $73 thousand necessary for the release with the help of the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. The project, however, has not yet been released: the authors of the game have run out of money. As of October 2015, only the diesel engine is fully ready.

We publish a funny and at the same time very interesting article about the current indie developers authored by Gur Dotan, co-founder and vice president of marketing at SOOMLA.

Chuck Doud, the head of the music department of the American branch of Sony Computer Entertainment, advises developers to think about the soundtrack at the earliest stages of development.

Artist Juan Hernandez (Juan Hernandez) told in an interview with the 80 level resource about the techniques he uses when creating 3D models. We publish a retelling.

Julius Fondem, project coordinator at RedLynx Studio, graduated from one of the Finnish universities to become a game producer. And during this time, in addition to his main specialty, he received several important lessons. They, according to him, were useful in later life.

The creator of the Broken Sword series, Revolution, celebrated its 25th anniversary at the Gamescom conference. The head of the studio, Charles Cecil, says: without Apple’s help, they would have closed long ago.