The Playliner mobile game functionality analytics system shared with App2top.ru his vision of what mechanics unite the most cash-successful games.

Seven key mistakes in the design of the user interface, which you need to remember when working on a children’s game, how Punch Club was created, as well as many other things – in our weekly digest.

The author of the Monkey Island series of games, the Grim Fandango quest and the Psychonauts platformer, Tim Schafer, shared tips on managing the game development team.

How to come up with a good game concept, what is the secret of the success of the DomiNations game and a bonus – how to create a beautiful water space on Unity 5.

How an indie developer can start collaborating with Microsoft, where to look for free art for his project, what the stars of the gaming industry are preparing for the coming year – all this is in our selection of the main materials of the past week.

The analytical company DeltaDNA researched 200 shareware titles and found out that there are several key ways to keep new players in the game.

We continue to publish collections of sites. This time it’s the turn of game designers. We present five English-language resources with useful content.

There is not much news today, so instead of our daily column, there is a selection of useful resources for game developers.

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.

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.

Developer Milan Babuskov (Milan Babuskov) talked about optimizing the size of graphics inside the APK package. We translated the article and share it.

We are mastering the genre of harmful advice. We translated an article from the Gamasutra resource, where they tell us how to ignore the testers’ reviews correctly.

Developers will be able to submit the application for external testing through TestFlight 2000 testers.

The Gamasutra resource has published tips for level designers from Geoff Ellenor from Ubisoft Montréal. We share the translation.

The independent resource Develop compared different analytical platforms. Mobile analytics company DeltaDNA commented on this material. We share a retelling of the article.

The Gamasutra resource has published a list of sites where you can find game art for free or for a small price. We share.

The British company Marmalade, the author of the cross-platform SDK of the same name, has released two new sets of tools for creating 2D and 3D games. They are called Marmalade 2D Kit and 3D Kit.

Intel has announced the launch of a beta version of the Multi-OS Engine tool. With its help, developers will be able to create native mobile applications for iOS and Android in Java on Windows and/or OS X.

The game of the Boston studio Oniix was copied by Chinese clone makers. The team shared their experience of dealing with them. We offer you a translation.