The editorial team at App2Top has repeatedly approached developers for opinions on neural networks and received the most polarized responses. From “it’s random that desperately needs human intervention” to “soon AI will create a grand hit for me.” To find out what is closer to reality, we’re discussing with representatives from MidHard, Beresnev Games, Playkot, and other studios.

We continue to wrap up the year 2025 with top managers and experts from the gaming industry. Up next is an interview with Daniil Kolesnikov, Business Development Manager at HeroCraft.

The editorial team at App2Top posed the most pressing questions regarding publishing to representatives from Skystone Games, Indie GO Fund, HeroCraft, and Polden Publishing.

We continue to share videos of presentations from the St. Petersburg session of the “Games Industry” Conference (CII), which took place in July. Today’s focus is on a presentation by Daniil Kolesnikov, a business development manager at HeroCraft. He spoke on the topic “Early Access Mistakes Illustrated by HeroCraft Games.”

Is there a transition from mobile to Steam, and if so, what might this phenomenon be attributed to? The editors of App2Top spoke with teams that have experience with both platforms: HeroCraft, Brickworks Games, Lipsar Studio, Kylyk Games, and Nekki.

Continuing to share reports from the Minsk session of the “Game Industry” conference (KII), which took place in April. Today, we present a talk on the topic “Pitch Deck and Bad Advice: What Not to Do” by Daniil Kolesnikov, Business Development Manager at HeroCraft. Plus, a reminder that on July 10, the “Game Industry” conference will take place in St. Petersburg.

On April 11, the global strategy Revival: Recolonization was released on PC in full. App2Top talked with Sergey Ulankin, head of console and PC publishing at HeroCraft, about how development was going, how successful early access was, about working with VK Play, and much more.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Pavel Prokonich, CEO of HeroCraft.

He told about the planned releases and the company’s Birthday in his resultsPavel Prokonich, CEO of HeroCraft.

We continue to summarize the results of 2019 together with the managers of gaming companies and market experts. Next up is an interview with Alexey Morozov, Marketing Director of HeroCraft.

In early September, HeroCraft released the Hyperforma arcade game on the Nintendo Switch. This is one of the few Russian projects that have appeared on the site so far. We talked to the publisher about the history of the project, its porting from mobile and the difficulties the game faced during release.

The head of the mobile publishing house HeroCraft tells how his department interacts with developers.

Marketing Director of HeroCraft Alexey Morozov said App2Top.ru , how was 2018 for the company. Including the fact that HeroCraft has doubled its turnover in a year.

The Kaliningrad studio HeroCraft together with the Getloyal retargeting system told how effective re-engagement can be, using the example of its own advertising campaign.

A year ago, the three-in-a-row Season Match Puzzle Adventure was released. Since then, the ARPU of the game has grown 150 times. Denis Sedovich, producer of HeroCraft publishing house, told how such dynamics were achieved.

Mikhail Kuzmin, co-founder of the podcast “How Games are Made” and head of business development at HeroCraft, announced his transition to the position of marketing director at tinyBuild publishing house, known for launching games such as Punch Club and Hello Neighbor.

For 9 years Samara Studio MONO has been making INSOMNIA: The Ark, a dark role-playing game set on a giant space station. In March it became known that the publisher of the game will be Kaliningrad HeroCraft. As part of the announcement, we talked a little with Studio MONO CEO Anatoly Nekrasov about the project.

2018 may be the year of Russian RPGs. In addition to Pathfinder and Ash of Gods, INSOMNIA: The Ark will soon appear on virtual shelves. This is a story-oriented role-playing game, reminiscent of Dark Souls and Fallout at once. Kaliningrad HeroCraft is engaged in its publication.

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