The other day on App2Top.ru there was a live broadcast with Anton Vinogradov, co—founder of the Samustai studio, which is engaged in porting indie titles to the console and publishing them. We talked in detail about the process of transferring games, optimization and the difficulties of working with different platforms. They also touched upon business processes, including revenue distribution, features of console marketing and sales.

App2Top.ru I conducted a live broadcast with Kirill Zolovkin, an indie developer and founder of the Heart Core studio. We discussed the problem of the shortage of personnel in the Russian game market, the nuances of development for PC and consoles, and also talked about the pros and cons of the GameMaker engine.

The other day App2Top.ru conducted a live broadcast with Alexey “Flazm“ Davydov, an indie developer and head of the studio of the same name. We talked in detail about the development of the Time Loader physical puzzle, the mechanics of the game and the difficulties encountered in the process. They also discussed working with publishers, the modern indie scene and budgets.

Golf Club: Wasteland is a post-apocalyptic puzzle game developed by Serbian Demagog Studio. The project, in which, while playing golf, you need to solve the mystery of the fall of humanity, was originally released on mobile platforms. In September, the authors ported the title to other platforms. In an interview App2Top.ru The CEO of Demagog Studio spoke about the development of the game, its concept, mechanics, visual style and the difficulties encountered.

Yesterday on App2Top.ru There was a live broadcast with Nexters co-founder Boris Herzovsky and Nexters Boost executive producer Max Postnikov. We talked about their new investment program, what selection criteria it has and how much money developers can get. We also discussed the situation on the gaming market in Russia and the CIS. We share a recording of the broadcast and an excerpt from it.

Raising funds for future sales is a common scenario in the mobile f2p games market. However, it also works with premium titles on Steam. That’s how the Russian role-playing blockbuster Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous received money for marketing. We talked about the mechanism of attraction and the deal with GamesBoost42, which acted as a financial partner of the game.

The Green Grey company has become more active. After two PR campaigns — involving Zurab Tsereteli in the creation of the Mountain Goat Cup for developers and launching a program about games on Muz-TV — the company announced the first deal. She invests $4 million in a joint mobile shooter of the designer of the Corsairs series and a serial IT entrepreneur. Details about the deal and the publisher itself are in our material.

At the end of October, Belarusian Vizor Games released a new major project — Atlantis Odyssey. According to AppMagic, by the end of November, the game can reach revenue of a million dollars without advertising. We talked about the project and its development with the leading game designer of the project Ilya Marchenko.

Next year G5 Games turns 20 years old. The company is approaching the anniversary at the peak of its form. In January-September of this year alone, she earned $117 million. We talked about how the company developed with its co-founder and permanent CEO Vlad Suglobov.

After two years of development, a new project by Nekki and Banzai Games, the mobile fighting game Shadow Fight Arena, has been released worldwide. We talked to the founders of the companies about how the game was being developed and why it is their first major step towards consoles and multiplatform.

Behind many of the events that we are witnessing, there is first of all a game PR, attempts to solve both obvious and not so obvious tasks with its help. In the new issue of “Industry on Thursdays” we tried to reveal exactly this topic — gaming PR. We are talking about him and not only with Nikolai Borzov, co-founder of the FatPony PR agency.

Igor Bukhman gave a great interview to the Russian Forbes. The co-founder of Playrix spoke about how the studio managed to become the world’s second gaming company after Tencent, as well as about potentially entering an IPO.The impact of the pandemic on the company’s activities

On October 1, Belka Games studio announced the launch of its first solitaire — Solitaire Cruise. The game began to earn rapidly even before the world release. Being in the softlonch, the game generated a million dollars. About the project and its first successes App2Top.ru I talked to the game team.

Family Island is the main opening of the Belarusian game show this year. Over the past 12 months, the monthly revenue of the farm about the prehistoric family has grown 100 times. If in September 2019 she earned $ 50 thousand, then in September 2020 — more than $ 5 million. The development team — Easy Team — was able to achieve such results after merging with Melsoft. About how it was, — App2Top.ru I talked…

Over the past two years, Saber Interactive has been increasingly heard about. In 2019, a company with Russian roots celebrated the successful launch of World War Z and the Switch port of The Witcher 3. This year Saber joined the Embracer Group, and then became the owner of 4A Games. The news about her did not stop there. For example, the Crysis remaster she created was released just the other day. Against the background of…

In December 2019, Alawar was headed by its co-founder Sergey Zanin. We talked with him about the early years of the company, about how it grew. They also touched upon the challenges that Alawar faced, discussed the situation around Stargaze and plans for the future.

Game designer Raphael Colantonio founded Arkane Studio in 1999 and participated in the creation of projects such as Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and Dishonored. In an interview with PC Gamer, he talked about the reasons for leaving the AAA segment, the problems of the industry and his new independent project.

A new week, a new video. This time about the history of the game Ailment. The game has an exceptional one. Its author was engaged exclusively in CG before development, he did not know programming. That didn’t stop him. In the process, he mastered C# and the Unity engine from scratch. In the end, everything worked out. Ailment was noticed by Apple, and Google called it one of the best indie releases of last year.

A new one-hour interview from App2Top.ru . This time we talked with Ivan Domankov, co-founder and managing partner of Highcore Games. In the center of the conversation is the story of the launch of the midcore mobile game Tanks A Lot.