A report by Ivan Belousov from HypeTrain Digital. He told me what they actually buy on Steam, how to prepare for the release of an indie game, what they play on Steam in 2017, how to understand who your player is, how to run a Kickstarter campaign, what tools exist to analyze competitors on Steam, and much more.

A report by Konrad Czernik from Techland. He spoke about the difficulties that arise when trying to create an art department. In addition to quality issues and time constraints, when developing a game, you constantly have to face problems of communication, motivation and personal boundaries. Konrad also talked about how difficult it is for programmers, artists, producers, designers and managers to work together. And also about the common tasks of game development and how the…

A report by Artem Petukhov from Pixonic. The speaker spoke about how to develop and promote action games in Asia (China, Japan and Korea) using the example of the MMO shooter War Robots.

A report by Christian Corsano from IO Interactive. The speaker shared his experience of creating a Hitman game using Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform.

A report by David Reichelt from Color Switch Productions, Inc. The speaker shared the story of the creation of the Color Switch game and talked about how to make a game that will not get lost among other projects.

A report by Evgeny Kozlov from Twitter. He talked about how to use Twitter as a marketing channel to promote games and apps.

Round table on HTML5 games. The participants of the round table discussed the present and the near future of the platform, touched upon topics such as instant messenger games and the current capabilities of Instant Games, talked about whether such projects will replace native applications.