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.

Today, June 17, at 13.00 Moscow time, a new broadcast will take place on WN Hub. This time it is dedicated to gaming ASO. Application page optimization specialists in the App Store and Google Play will discuss the market situation, the latest trends, common pitfalls in the niche.

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.

Today, on June 3, at 13.00 Moscow time, a new broadcast will take place on the WN Hub. This time it is dedicated to hyper-casual games. Developers, publishers and marketers will discuss the future of the niche, as well as discuss how the COVID-19 situation has affected hyper-casual games.

At the end of April, MRGV turned three years old. We decided that this was a great opportunity to talk to its managing director Ilya Karpinsky about the relationship between developers and publishers.

On April 28, the Frozen Flame game from Dreamside Interactive was released on the Fig crowdfunding platform. She scored the required amount in the first week — $ 50 thousand. This is the first Russian project on the platform and one of the few domestic desktop AA games. We talked about the history of development, personnel hunger, working with investors and, of course, entering Fig with the owner of the studio Sergey Korolev.

What is going on in the hyper-casual games market? How difficult is it to launch your own studio in this niche? Is viral success possible? Under what conditions do publishers work with developers of hyper-casual games today? We talked about this and not only in the format of a video interview with Alexander Filatov, co-founder of Hypernova Games.

We have launched a YouTube channel. On it, we plan to post interviews and streams with game developers about the industry. The pilot issue is dedicated to Valorant. We talked about the project with Kirill Shabordin, Technical Director of the W4 Game Creation Kit.

A video about the origins of the Civilization series was released on the Ars Technica YouTube channel. Its main character is Sid Meier. He says that the first Civilization could have become an RTS game.

Kirill Zabrodin, Technical Director of Social Quantum, spoke at White Nights St.Petersburg 2018. In the report, he shared the definition of the prototype and talked about how to prototype correctly.

On White Nights St. Petersburg 2018 was performed by Alexander Shmyrov, producer of Game Insight. Alexander told why the company held one of the last events in Guns of Boom with the participation of actor Danny Trejo.

Nadav Ashkenazy, ironSource’s Vice President for Publisher Relations and Sales, spoke at the recent White Nights. He explained exactly how to improve the financial performance of a mobile game by placing ads in it.

Waves platform, which specializes in the management and release of digital assets, performed at White Nights in St. Petersburg. She assures that the blockchain will help to increase revenue from each user.

At the last White Nights session, Kiness Cheng (Keyness Cheng) spoke. He represented the company Merculet, which offers customers its own solution for the implementation of blockchain in their projects. He spoke about what opportunities the blockchain opens up to the gaming industry today.

At White Nights St.Petersburg 2018, Liftoff marketing platform manager Alexandra Issakova spoke about working with creatives. She also touched on such a topic as A/B testing of mobile advertising.

The authors of Pillars of Eternity published The Road To Eternity movie on YouTube, in which they told how the studio came to develop a retro project on Unity and what problems it encountered during its creation.

Pavel Ryakkonen, Executive Director of Nevosoft, spoke at the recently concluded conference for mobile game developers Winter Nights 2015. We are posting a video with his speech and presentation.

A report by Olivier Bernard from App Annie at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

Presentation by Pavel Ryakkonen, Distribution Director of Nevosoft, at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.