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Development December 1, 2020

The highest—grossing games with adult content – Collectible RPG

The top genres in terms of revenue in the niche of erotic games are the same as on mobile: role—playing games with gacha, as well as three-in-a-row. Grigory Sokolov, senior designer at Nutaku Publishing, told about this at the online Talents in Games Conference.

Industry December 20, 2019

Facebook is preparing its own OS

Facebook is working on its own operating system. Its creation will allow other social network products not to depend on Android.

Management October 5, 2018

How to Choose which game to develop — Azur Games story

Each team faces a question: how to choose a game for development. Azur Games producer Artur Mostovoy shared with App2Top.ru the way the company decides to launch a new product into production.

Development February 7, 2018

Opinion: First week sales on Steam can predict revenue for the year

Independent developer Jake Birkett analyzed how the revenues of the game for the first week and for the first year of sales on Steam correlate. He interviewed 30 developers and gave their answers in the form of a graph.

Development November 13, 2017

Amazon has introduced a speech synthesizer for voice-over games

Those developers who don’t have money for voice acting or even a microphone may need to take a closer look at Amazon’s new solution. The company has introduced a speech synthesizer for voicing video games.

Games September 25, 2017

Valve is developing a “fantasy Destiny” (?)

Apparently, Valve is working on a new title — an unannounced cooperative action game for 4 players in a fantasy setting.

Development August 30, 2017

Google has introduced a devkit for AR applications for Android

Google has shown ARCore, a devkit designed to create augmented reality applications for Android.

Industry August 18, 2017

Steam will limit the issuance of game keys to developers

Valve will stop uncontrollably issuing developers any number of game keys. The service explained this by fighting the sale of keys on third-party sites bypassing Steam.

Development June 26, 2017

The second life of Flash games: Developer tips

The head of the FlowPlay gaming direction, Craig Robinson, shared his experience of transferring a Flash game project to a modern platform.

Industry December 13, 2016

The open alpha of the SpatialOS service, which supports one world on several servers, has been released

Improbable launches the open alpha of the SpatialOS platform, which allows you to run MMO games without restrictions from the server.

Development September 14, 2015

GrommGame: how to increase the probability of success of the game?

The authors of the iOS application “Skazbuka” (PlayBC) – the GrommGame team – shared with App2Top.ru the results of a two-year study of the links between patterns in thinking and games, resulting in a new game theory.

Development March 5, 2014

Converting currencies in F2P games

Yesterday on the pages PocketGamer.biz John Jordan’s interesting material has appeared about how game developers play with currency rates in their F2P titles. We offer a short retelling with explanations and additions.

Industry February 27, 2014

Interview with Renatus

About mobile engines, mobile game development and the future of match 3 edition App2Top.ru I talked to the chief producer of Renatus Media.

Industry February 18, 2014

Interview with Alis Games

At the last Winter Nights 2014 conference, the Need A Hero game from the Minsk company Alis Games received an award in the competition for the best mobile game. We talked with its head Denis Voikhansky.

Industry January 27, 2014

NaturalMotion: We are developing games for word of mouth

CSR and Clumsy Ninja publishers told what they focus on when developing and launching mobile projects.

Localization January 21, 2014

Interview with All Correct Localization

How much the localization of the game costs, why it is needed, how the translation of the game takes place — about this and much more in our interview with All Correct Localization.

Other January 13, 2014

What should you learn from the developers of Candy Crush Saga?

At the moment, Candy Crush Saga tops the box office tops in 50 countries. What should mobile developers who want to achieve comparable success take into account, the HasOffers strategist told.

Development January 9, 2014

Mechanics of midcore games: Part 4

In November, we started publishing a series of translations of articles by Mikhail Katkoff, product director at Scopely, about the mechanics of midcore games. Today is the fourth part dedicated to monetization.

Development December 26, 2013

Mechanics of midcore games: Part 3

In November, we started publishing a series of translations of articles by Mikhail Katkoff, product director at Scopely, about the mechanics of midcore games. Today is the third part devoted to the social component.

Other December 10, 2013

Two announcements of Telltale Games and five reasons why it is so successful

Telltale Games accounted for the largest number of announcements on the VGX game show. The studio announced work on games based on the Borderlands dilogy and the Game of Thrones series. We decided that this is a great reason to publish our last year’s material about Telltale Games and its quests.

All publications by tag «development»

The highest—grossing games with adult content – Collectible RPG

Facebook is preparing its own OS

How to Choose which game to develop — Azur Games story

Opinion: First week sales on Steam can predict revenue for the year

Amazon has introduced a speech synthesizer for voice-over games

Valve is developing a “fantasy Destiny” (?)

Google has introduced a devkit for AR applications for Android

Steam will limit the issuance of game keys to developers

The second life of Flash games: Developer tips

The open alpha of the SpatialOS service, which supports one world on several servers, has been released

GrommGame: how to increase the probability of success of the game?

Converting currencies in F2P games

Interview with Renatus

Interview with Alis Games

NaturalMotion: We are developing games for word of mouth

Interview with All Correct Localization

What should you learn from the developers of Candy Crush Saga?

Mechanics of midcore games: Part 4

Mechanics of midcore games: Part 3

Two announcements of Telltale Games and five reasons why it is so successful