The Indie Game Cup Indie project competition has started. The best projects will receive awards and prizes at the winter White Nights, which will be held in February 2017 in Prague.

The authors of “Natives” and “Mysterious House” after the announcement of Instant Games by the social network Facebook said that they invested $ 5 million in games for the new platform, and also acquired the authors of Need a Hero.

As part of the last Casual Connect session, which took place in early November, the best projects were awarded in ten nominations. In light of the upcoming deadline for submitting applications for the next Indie Prize Showcase, we decided to briefly go through the list.

Unity has launched an affiliate program to promote content in the Asset Store. For sales received from external links, commissions will be paid.

Two high-ranking Zynga managers, leaving the company for Scopely, took with them to a new place data about the former employer and several colleagues.

The provider of Tilting Point has launched a fund that will invest in advertising campaigns for mobile games by indie developers.

App2Top.ru continues to post videos from the White Nights Moscow 2016 conference. Next up is the performance of Nizar Romdan from Virtual Arts. In his speech, he talked about creating his own VR studio in Cambridge (UK), which develops games, interactive content and new technologies, as well as how to make a good game for VR.

The Facebook social network has opened the Instant Games platform within the closed beta, which allows users to play with each other in a chat and news feed.

Dong Nguyen’s studio dotGEARS is preparing to release a new title. The project will be released on the same day as Super Mario Run (Nintendo) – December 15.

Since its release this summer, more Japanese have played Pokémon GO (Niantic) than any other mobile game.

About the most popular solutions for A/B testing in mobile, – Soomla company told.

Mobio Talks within the framework of White Nights Moscow 2016, which took place on October 11-12, interviewed the speakers of the conference. Today we publish a conversation between Alexey Pisarevsky, CEO of Mobio, and Luis Cataldi, evangelist of Epic Games.

On November 29 , the project of Andrey Babak and the Kaliningrad company HeroCraft – Tempest – is released on GOG.com . About the history of the development and promotion of the game on Steam – in our material.

Since 2012, the ratio of paid and free games released in the App Store has changed a lot: there are significantly more free-to-play games. But the number of premium releases has not decreased.

Farming Simulator 17 (Focus Interactive) — showed high sales on PC and consoles. The game has been bought more than a million times in a month.

The new star of the American mobile sales chart is the hardcore strategy King of Avalon (FunPlus). The game has been ranked first in the US App Store box office chart since November 15.

Localization of applications in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) strongly affects sales,” Google writes with reference to the experience of the teams Wego.com and IGG.com .

Within the framework of the “developer diaries” format, we publish the fifth note of the ComonGames team. In the new material, The Unknown’s sound engineer Igor “Neither I am” Fomichev tells how he worked on the music for the project, SFX and the voices of the characters. And he also shares how and where to find inspiration.

The author of Triple Town and Steambirds, Daniel Cook, shared his view on the gaming industry and made predictions for the future. And we have translated the text and now we present it to your attention.