What a game designer should always remember, Mark Brown, an indie developer and editor of the Pocket Gamer resource, told the Game Maker’s Toolkit video cycle. With the author’s permission, we have prepared a text version of the material in Russian. We share.

Former Director of Marketing and Communications at Rambler&Co Mikhail Dobrov became a member of the team Wargaming.net . In the new place, Dobrov will lead the promotion of World of Tanks in CIS as the head of the marketing department.

Google has made available a test build of the Android O operating system. You can download it from the developer page.

HacknPlan, an online project management platform, will launch on April 3. The program resembles the Trello manager, but is tailored to the tasks of game developers.

According to the results of last month, the game Real Piano from the Belarusian-British developer Gismart entered the Top 10 leaders in total downloads on the App Store and Google Play among games.

We continue the weekly publication of selected vacancies. Their selection makes for App2Top.ru Tanya Evdokimenko, HR and recruiting expert.

A report by Mark Heinz (Mike Hines), an evangelist from Amazon. His speech is dedicated to the promotion of games without buying traffic.

Report by Natalie Portier, Chief Operating Officer of Appodeal. She talks about how to advertise in mobile projects.

Activision has signed a partnership agreement with Chinese developer Elex to create a mobile game based on the Call of Duty franchise.

App Annie has published lists of the most popular and profitable mobile games in February 2017. The most successful projects of the month included Honor of Kings, Real Piano and Fire Emblem Heroes.

Japanese developer and publisher GungHo Online Entertainment (GOE) has become one of the global sponsors of the World Baseball Classic 2017.

The Kidoz children’s operating system of the Israeli company Netanya last year increased the monthly audience of active users by 50 times — from 1 to 50 million people.

The new Bioware project, the role—playing game Mass Effect: Andromeda, was criticized immediately after its release for poor animation and other errors. As it turned out, the development of the blockbuster was accompanied by problems in the Bioware Montreal team.

According to Bloomberg, Apple is preparing to introduce augmented reality (AR) into its ecosystem and plans to produce consumer-grade gadgets.

The French developer and publisher DotEmu announced the imminent closure of its digital store selling retro games.

Report by Matthew Steinke, Lead Technical Designer at CD Projekt RED. He talks about how the economy was created and how it works in Witcher 3.

Report by Itai Edry, producer of TabTale. He talks about what super casual games are, what they should be and where to look for inspiration for their development.

In February, players in Russia paid less for online entertainment than in January. The turnover of the domestic MMO market fell by 5%, the average check – by 13 rubles.

Scopley Studio has signed an agreement with the developers of Temple Run to create a three-in-a-row puzzle based on the mobile hit Imangi.