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Industry December 21, 2018

Playgendary plans to expand its staff by 100 people

The publisher of Bowmasters and Tomb of the Mask has taken on a massive recruitment of employees in the Minsk office. The company wants to attract about 100 new employees to it in the near future.

Industry November 26, 2018

Playgendary got into the Top 3 global companies by the number of monthly game downloads

Founded by people from Belarus, Playgendary has once again entered the Top 3 world leaders in mobile downloads among gaming companies. This became known from the App Annie index for the past October.

Industry September 4, 2018

Charity in a gaming event — Belka Games experience

Today, on September 4, Belka Games studio launched a charity event in the Watchmaker game. All the money earned inside the event will be used to support programs United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). We talked to Yuri Krasilnikov, the company’s business development director, about the details of the event and why the company is taking part in it.

Industry August 29, 2018

Playgendary has launched two development studios in Russia

The authors of Bowmasters and Flip the Gun announced the opening of two offices in Russia — Moscow and St. Petersburg. The company plans to hire 110 employees for them, bringing its total staff to 300 people.

Development August 17, 2018

Deconstruction of Robin Hood Legends — with developer comments

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.

Industry June 15, 2018

How much are game developers paid in the CIS?

Recruiting agency Values Value has published a study on salaries in the CIS gaming industry for 2018. We have prepared a short version of the report, which focused on the salaries of market specialists.

Industry May 7, 2018

Belarusian Belka Games has joined the Leda Games team

The authors of the three-in-a-row “Watchmaker” announced the joining of the mobile studio Leda Games. The most famous project of the latter is the three—in-a-row “Knitted Story” with more than 500 thousand installations on Google Play.

Industry May 7, 2018

Timofey Fadeev became Director of Business Development at Awem Games

Awem Games, founded in Mogilev, known for the three-in-a-row Cradle of Empires, received a business development director. He became 32-year-old Timofey Fadeev, who was previously responsible for a similar area in the advertising startup BuzzGuru and the Chinese studio IGG, known for games such as Castle Clash and Lords Mobile.

Industry April 16, 2018

Mail.Ru Group has launched a studio in Minsk, looking for developers with experience in CryEngine

Russian IT giant Mail.Ru The Group has launched a game project development center “Igro Tek” in the capital of Belarus. Now he is looking for specialists familiar with CryEngine. One of the startup’s managers is Alla Vasilyeva. She was responsible for development in the Minsk office of Wargaming for more than ten years.

Games April 13, 2018

The mobile version of “Klondike” from Vizor has collected 1 million downloads in a week since its release

The Minsk-based studio Vizor has reported on the successful launch of its social blockbuster “Klondike: The Missing Expedition” on mobile platforms. In just seven days since the global launch, the project has reached the mark of 1 million downloads.

Industry March 7, 2018

Salaries of game developers in the CIS (data on specialties)

In the spring of 2017, the Ukrainian company Values Value, founded by Tanya Loktionova (Evdokimenko), conducted a large-scale survey of gaming industry specialists from the CIS about salaries. App2Top.ru publishes excerpts from the results of the study.

Industry January 16, 2018

Belka Games company was headed by Alexander Bogdanov

Alexander Bogdanov, who led the St. Petersburg studio Game Insight and Nord Quantum, became the CEO of Minsk-based Belka Games, the developer of the Watchmaker.

Industry November 17, 2017

Gismart has tripled LTV by adding a game mode to the project

How can I increase LTV if the application has been on the market for several years and has stopped developing? Gismart managed to do this by turning the music app into a game about drums.

Industry October 6, 2017

Feature in the new App Store: Bobaka Studio experience

On October 1, the interactive book for children “Green Riding Hood” by the Russian-Belarusian Bobaka team became the “App of the Day” on iOS 11. We tell you how it happened and what results it led to.

Industry September 18, 2017

The authors of Bring Me Cakes: “the time has passed when the feature sold games”

The developers of Bring Me Cakes, one of the first games on Defold, told why they work on it, as well as what to expect from the feature on iOS if you release a paid game.

Industry August 18, 2017

To attract a new audience, a story mode is introduced in World of Tanks

In the tank multiplayer blockbuster Wargaming, there will be story PvE campaigns that can be carried out alone. One of the tasks of the update is to reach a new audience.

Games July 14, 2017

The softlonch World of Warships Blitz took place

Wargaming has pre-launched the action-MMO World of Warships Blitz on the App Store and Google Play.

Industry March 22, 2017

Belarusian Real Piano is one of the most downloaded games in February

According to the results of last month, the game Real Piano from the Belarusian-British developer Gismart entered the Top 10 leaders in total downloads on the App Store and Google Play among games.

Industry January 25, 2017

“At Toy Defense, we mastered fritupley from scratch”: founder of Melsoft about the history of the studio

Melsoft founder Alexey Meleshkevich told Pavel Ryakkonen in an interview about the history of the studio, its best projects and internal processes.

Industry December 20, 2016

“The main way of income of music applications is subscription”: Gismart about itself and the market of mobile music games

After reaching the mark of more than 130 million downloads, the Anglo-Belarusian company Gismart announced that it is ready to take up the publication of music-oriented games from third-party teams. We talked with the co-founder and CTO of the company Alexander Mints about where the company started and on what conditions it is ready to publish external projects.

All publications by tag «Belarus»

Playgendary plans to expand its staff by 100 people

Playgendary got into the Top 3 global companies by the number of monthly game downloads

Charity in a gaming event — Belka Games experience

Playgendary has launched two development studios in Russia

Deconstruction of Robin Hood Legends — with developer comments

How much are game developers paid in the CIS?

Belarusian Belka Games has joined the Leda Games team

Timofey Fadeev became Director of Business Development at Awem Games

Mail.Ru Group has launched a studio in Minsk, looking for developers with experience in CryEngine

The mobile version of “Klondike” from Vizor has collected 1 million downloads in a week since its release

Salaries of game developers in the CIS (data on specialties)

Belka Games company was headed by Alexander Bogdanov

Gismart has tripled LTV by adding a game mode to the project

Feature in the new App Store: Bobaka Studio experience

The authors of Bring Me Cakes: “the time has passed when the feature sold games”

To attract a new audience, a story mode is introduced in World of Tanks

The softlonch World of Warships Blitz took place

Belarusian Real Piano is one of the most downloaded games in February

“At Toy Defense, we mastered fritupley from scratch”: founder of Melsoft about the history of the studio

“The main way of income of music applications is subscription”: Gismart about itself and the market of mobile music games