The producer of the Recontact game franchise, Simay Dinc, has launched the CATS of Small Village creative camp for Turkish children from villages and small towns. Dinge believes that this is a great project for training and attracting young talents to the video game industry.

Slava Lukyanenka, senior producer of CD Projekt RED, wrote a post about the systemic problems of education in game development. He shared his thoughts on why there are so many people with “faded eyes” among the graduates of the courses. This caused a discussion, which was joined by other Russian-speaking representatives of the gaming industry.Lukyanenka decided to speak out on this topic after talking with young developers.

From November 1, Cyprus will suspend the Citizenship by investment program. In conversation with App2Top.ru industry representatives explained why such a decision would have a positive impact on IT and game development in the region.Why was it decided to suspend the program?

Abertay University has opened a new training center. It will teach, among other things, experimental game design.

Every year, €50 million will be invested in the German federal budget for the development of game development. This decision of the Budget Committee of the Bundestag will take effect from 2020.

The executive director of Supercell Ilkka Paananen criticized the Finnish migration policy. According to him, because of the bureaucracy, it is difficult for game studios to hire specialists from abroad.

How game dev, gaming devices and video games themselves developed is described in detail and with illustrations in the books from the 80lvl collection. The selection has been translated App2Top.ru .

The Finnish gaming industry currently employs 3,200 people. A quarter of them work from abroad.

There is a popular format on Twitter: “one like — one fact.” As part of this format, the head of the Mexican mobile publisher HyperBeard, Antonio Uribe Fire, spoke about interesting aspects of game development in Mexico.

The Russian gaming industry needs self-regulation, according to the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Kiriyenko. He promised gamedev his help in contacting the authorities.

In the Gamedev topic on Reddit, users discussed what prevents the Indian video game market from developing and why it is much weaker than the Chinese one. The developers from India themselves expressed their opinion on the topic.

The German authorities have allocated €50 million from their budget to create a fund for the development of game development. For the first time, the German gaming industry received support at the federal level.

In the German Wooga again layoffs. The company has decided to focus on the development of games with a plot and, in this regard, is conducting a complete restructuring.

On February 26, Rusbase released a voluminous interview with Alexey Grigorkin, one of the authors of the Sandbox Coloring game, whose total downloads reached 30 million, and estimated monthly income is $ 2 million. App2Top.ru publishes a short retelling of the material.

The creator of the St. Petersburg office of Nival, Peter Prokhorenko, now works at Alternativa Games (formerly AlternativaPlatform). He became the product director of a company known for the MMO action movie “Tanks Online”.