Mobile industry experts are increasingly talking about the prospects of the Indian market. The analytical company App Annie was no exception and published a study of the local market. It turned out that India took the first place in terms of the growth rate of the mobile market.

About the new Russian battler Heroes and Puzzles, which was promoted by Apple in the Russian and Canadian iTunes in early June, we talked with its developers from Ufa – the LingPlay team.

In the first half of 2016, games on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform raised only $8.2 million. For the same period last year, the amount amounted to $20 million. The figures were published by the consulting firm ICO Partners.

In dollar terms, the Russian online gaming market fell by 5% in 2015 compared to the results of 2012.

Why indie developers have nothing to do on iOS, what mistakes should be avoided when creating mobile game interfaces, how the top 50 box office games differ from all other projects – we tell you in our selection of the main materials of the week.

The other day, The Little Fox game from the Ukrainian h8games team was released in the App Store. Yesterday she received a big banner on the iTunes homepage in 86 regions. Read about the project and developers in our publication.

King launched a midcore strategy, Nekki had a new release, and Tencent got almost half of the revenue from the 100 highest-grossing Chinese games.

Josh Bycer, the owner and editor-in-chief of the Game-Wisdom resource, told about what is wrong with Path of Exile and how to distribute content in the game.

At the White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 conference Olga Lysenko from My.com she told me what mistakes should not be made when creating mobile game interfaces.

The Chinese leadership announced the imminent introduction of new rules concerning mobile developers. We are talking about both a ban on the distribution of applications using someone else’s intellectual property, and the need to censor user content.

Company My.com Officially launched its reinvention of Clash Royale – a mobile game in the Jungle Heat universe – Jungle Clash.

Nikita Kulaga, co-programmer, game designer and script writer of Punch Club, at White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 shared what mistakes the team made when creating the game. And how she corrected them.

Tamara Basova, marketing Specialist at Pixonic, told about the subtleties of working with video advertising at the White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 conference. We offer a short version of the report with presentation slides.

How to choose the right publisher and what to pay attention to – Andrey Zimenko, head of the Mobile publishing department at the WG Labs External Project Curation laboratory, told at White Nights St.Petersburg 2016.

Mike Hines, evangelist of the development department in Amazon.com , told at White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 how the top 50 box office games differ from other projects.

Matthew Wilson, Director of Business Development at Rovio, shared his view on the current state of the mobile gaming industry at the White Nights St. Petersburg 2016 conference.

Vladimir Tomko, game producer in OK.RU , at the White Nights St. Petersburg 2016 conference, he told what needs to be done to publish the game on the native platform of the Odnoklassniki social network.

The top earning mobile gaming companies from Russia, the Baltic States and the CIS are Playrix, Nordcurrent and Game Insight. This was announced at the White Nights St.Petersburg 16 conference by App Annie Vice President Justin Rapp.

Llamasoft Studio no longer releases iOS projects and has removed existing games from the App Store. That’s because making games for Apple means working at a loss. This opinion was shared by the co-founder of the studio Jeff Minter (Jeff Minter) in a blog.