Highwinds, a gaming server company, summed up the results of the GDC 2013 San Francisco conference in an unusual format. She caught ten GDC participants and asked them to name any one important thing they learned from the lectures.

At the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, we were able to personally ask questions to speakers, including Ville Heijari (Rovio), Chris Williams (Big Fish), Michael Schade (FishLabs). In this article, we have put all the video interviews together.

At the Winter Nights conference, Marianna Polyakova, Director of Product Management at PlayFirst, answered several questions to our editorial staff. The interview was conducted in English.

Chris Williams, vice president and general manager for Free-to-Play at Big Fish, answered several questions about the development of f2p projects at the Winter Nights conference. The interview was conducted in English.

Today the game “Hypnosis” was released on iOS. This is a big and bright quest that the internal studio of Nevosoft has been working on for more than two years. Alexey Serebrov, Director of the Nevosoft Development Department, told us about the stages of development, mistakes and victories.  

Ed Rumley, Executive Director of Chillingo, answered a number of questions about the features of publishing and monetization of games on various platforms to the editors of App2Top during the Winter Nights conference. The interview was conducted in English.

In his interview, Ville Heijari, senior vice president of brand marketing at Rovio, told us about the merger of franchises. The conversation was held in English as part of the Winter Nights conference.

Richard Firminger, Managing Director of Flurry, Europe, told the editorial board of App2Top about marketing in the mobile gaming industry. The interview was conducted in English as part of the Winter Nights conference.

Sebastian Kriese, Wooga’s Strategic Partnership manager, told us how to port the game from Facebook to the mobile platform and which monetization scheme to choose. The interview was conducted in English as part of the Winter Nights conference.

Michael Schade, CEO of FishLabs, answered a number of questions at the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference about the difficulties of working with the franchise and the differences in monetization schemes for different countries. The interview was conducted in English. 

In an exclusive interview with App2Top, Herocraft spoke about the strategy market on mobile platforms, hardcore and midcore, as well as about its latest project – Strategy & Tactics: World War II. 

Olivier Bernard, Vice President of App Annie, Europe, at the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference answered a number of questions about the possibilities of the stores. The interview was conducted in English. 

Mikhail Katkoff, Supercell Product manager, talked about how to distinguish a successful game project and make money on it. The interview took place within the framework of the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference.

Marmalade company told about itself, its plans for the future, the gaming market and competitors. 

Alexander Zverev, Head of Yandex.At the Winter Nights conference, the App2Top editorial staff answered several questions about the features of this app store.

At the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, held in St. Petersburg on February 8-9, Evgeny Kosolapov, CEO of i-Free Asia, answered a number of questions to the App2Top editorial board about the specifics of promoting mobile games in the Chinese market.

Mikhail Ryazanov, Head of the mobile direction Mail.Ru Group, at the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, answered several questions to our editorial staff.

On March 15, the Beach Girl Aloha game by Dodo Games studio appeared on the App Store. On March 20, she topped the Russian chart of free apps. We asked Artem Zemtsov, one of the studio’s founders, about the project and its promotion in Russia.      

How Cyto was developed, where its authors were looking for inspiration, why a publisher is needed, and much more, in an exclusive interview with App2Top, the executive director of the studio Room 8 Svyatoslav Pogrebnoy told.