Alana Pearce, who is currently working on God of War: Ragnarok, decided to remind the players that the writers are also part of the development team. It was supported by many developers from other companies. They stressed that games are made not only by programmers, but also by all studio employees — be they marketers or HR specialists.God of War: Ragnarok

Difficulties in creating games should not stop indie developers, – says the creator of Braid and The Witness, Jonathan Blow.

Independent games have become an integral part of the global gaming industry and have ceased to be its antipode, says Rami Ismail, indie developer and co-founder of Vlambeer Studio. He stated this at The Big Indie Fest @ReVersed gaming conference, held in Austria on July 5-8.

The founder of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, believes that casual genres are losing leadership on mobile platforms. In his opinion, gamers have outgrown the fascination with simple titles and expect a more comprehensive experience from mobile games. This trend is one of the main reasons for the success of Fortnite’s “battle royale” on mobile.

Ken Wong, the leading designer of the mobile indie hit Monument Valley and creator of the interactive novella Florence, believes that frituplay is not a prerequisite for a successful mobile game. In his opinion, people are ready to buy high-quality titles.

The design director of Pillars of Eternity and Fallout: New Vegas, Josh Sawyer from Obsidian studio, believes that it is high time for the genre of role-playing games to evolve. Sawyer told about this at the Reboot Develop conference, which was held recently in Croatia.

The head of Bossa Studios, Henrique Olifiers, believes that the industry is using early access incorrectly. Developers are releasing almost finished games, while Oliphers wants to see more projects in early access at the initial stage of readiness.

On April 11, the independent analytical service Steam Spy stopped receiving Steam user data because Valve hid this information from third-party eyes. The author of the Games Industry publication Christopher Dring believes that this decision will harm small and medium-sized gaming companies.

“Faster does not mean worse,” says independent developer Jake Birkett, speaking about the timing of the creation of video games.

“Let the gaming industry solve the problem of loot boxes by itself. State regulation is a slippery slope,” said Sean Quinlan, a member of the House of Representatives of the Hawaii State Legislature.

Digital distribution of video games will completely replace retail in the next 5 − 20 years. Karl Slatoff, the president of Take-Two Interactive publishing house, thinks so.

Linear gameplay is no longer as popular with players as it was 5 or 10 years ago, according to Electronic Arts CEO Blake Jorgensen. He said this at the last Credit Suisse media conference in Arizona.

The public discussion about the monetization of video games through loot boxes did not affect the sales of large titles, according to the analytical company NPD Group.

Ex-BioWare employee Manveer Heir (Manveer Heir) believes that the Electronic Arts publishing house, in pursuit of gaming profits, forgot about the desires and needs of gamers.

The director of the God of War game series, Cory Barlog, defended games with a linear plot and a single-player campaign after news of the closure of the Visceral Games studio by Electronic Arts Corporation.

Charles Randall, an ex-employee of Capybara Games studio, believes that game developers have stopped openly talking about their work because of the “toxicity” of the gaming community, which endlessly attacks them.

The head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, believes that mobile app stores take away the lion’s share of revenue from mobile game developers.

Yesterday, on September 7, the Odnoklassniki social network announced that from November 1 it will pay developers only 10% of the game payments made by Bonus OKS. App2Top.ru I asked representatives of top Russian-speaking companies in the social games market about their attitude to the innovation.

Us on App2Top.ru the developer wrote the other day: “how to promote an f2p game in the USA in the racing section of Google Play with a budget of $5-6k?”. Based on this question, we had a more general query: what to do if the marketing budget of a mobile game is only $ 5-6 thousand? We addressed it to the experts.