Board games based on video games continue to attract a lot of attention from the audience. Next up is the adaptation of the Frostpunk urban planning simulator. In three weeks on Kickstarter, the authors of “nastolka” collected € 2.5 million. Despite the fact that the initial goal of the campaign was only € 200 thousand.

On August 7, a board game about building a gaming business appeared on sale. It’s called Game Dev Sim. One of its authors — Vyacheslav Utochkin — prepared for App2Top.ru material about the project.

One of the founders of the PopCap studio, Jason Kapalka, has moved into a related field of activity. Instead of developing video games, Kapalka decided to start creating board games at Forbidden Games, which he also founded.

How to deal with the shortage of ideas in the mobile market with the help of desktop games, the editors of App2Top reasoned.

Playdek, a company specializing in the development of mobile versions of board games, has attracted investments in the amount of $ 3.8 million. Several venture capital firms, led by Qualcomm Ventures, have “invested” in it.