In light of the Apple TV console that has recently appeared on sale, Unity has published in its official blog some small tips for developing games for this device.

Not so long ago, the Israeli company SOOMLA has prepared a detailed guide to the marketing of mobile indie games. We read the text and realized that we have not only a guide, but also a kind of checklist for budget promotion. We offer you a revised version of the material in Russian.

Gameloft UX designer Om Tandon in his blog on Linkedin talked about how King stimulates booster sales. With the permission of the Oma, we publish a Russian translation of the article.

With the light hand of the English-language podcast The Meeple Syrup Show, dedicated to the design of board games, the popular and at the same time useful hashtag #ShareAGameDesignTip appeared on Twitter.

Game Analytics, an analytical platform and game publisher, has published a list of 21 training resources for game developers on its blog. Now this list can be found on our pages.

Communication with industry acquaintances often leads to certain thoughts about what game development should and should not be. Based on such conversations, we have written a short article about possible managerial mistakes when creating games.

The Gamasutra resource has collected ten useful quotes about the industry from well-known game developers. We have translated them and are sharing them with you.

Today, in the App Store and Google Play, you can find many projects in the match-3 genre. Only some rise in the box office top, while others remain unnoticed. How to make such a “three-in-a-row” that will bring money, we talked with the authors of the game “Mysteries of Atlantis”

So, you want to create a mobile app, and you have an idea, inspiration, an original name, and even, if you’re lucky, money.

In the blog of KamaGames Studio on habrahabr.ru there is a curious material about what awaits our industry this year. With the kind permission of our colleagues from KamaGames Studio, we publish this material on App 2 Top.ru .

Facebook ‘s Director of partner projects , Julien Codorgnu , said in an interview Forbes.ru what you need to do to make the game a hit.

Anders Drachen, the main author of Game Analytics, decided to turn to what is analytics in the gaming industry. He proposed 12 steps to build a work with such information. Which ones? Read in the material.

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.

On the Fiksu website there are very interesting graphs with which you can compare the popularity of “apple” devices with each other. 

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.

Yesterday KamaGames Studio in its blog on http://habrahabr.ru I published some interesting material about localization. With the kind consent of its authors, we publish the text on the pages App2Top.ru .

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.

Rob Weber, Vice President and co-founder of NativeX, spoke on the pages of Games Brief about five strategies for promoting the game and increasing its findability on the App Store. 

The most important things in a strong free-to-play game are role-playing elements and a sense of progress, said David Pi Chiu, director of business development at Kongregate, at Game Connection Europe.