The movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) stimulated downloads and sales in mobile games based on the franchise. This is according to the results of its own research, the mobile analytics company Sensor Tower reports.

Kirill Petrov, co-founder of i-Free and Managing director of Zillion Whales, told App2Top about the main trends and the best games of 2015.

Ryan Cash from a small indie company Snowman talked to the resource 80.lv about the mobile game Alto’s Adventure. Cash spoke about how the project was created, about the choice of style and about the biggest problems of indie development.

Gaijin Entertainment CEO Anton Yudintsev summed up in a publication for App2Top.ru the results of the outgoing year.

In the new section, we look at the Dashy Crashy runner and two of its features that we really liked.

How to come up with a good game concept, what is the secret of the success of the DomiNations game and a bonus – how to create a beautiful water space on Unity 5.

The organizers of the DevGAMM conferences have published on YouTube all the lectures from the last Minsk event. There were 42 performances in total.

Playrix Creative Director Igor Elovikov said App2Top.ru about the projects that impressed him this year.

DeltaDNA experts told how the creators of the ToysBurg frituplein made the game more profitable.

Creative Mobile Games Business Development Manager Marianna Kryakvina summed up for App2Top.ru the results of the fifteenth year.

The evangelist of Epic Games, which develops Unreal Engine, shared with App2Top.ru with your thoughts about the outgoing year.

How an indie developer can start collaborating with Microsoft, where to look for free art for his project, what the stars of the gaming industry are preparing for the coming year – all this is in our selection of the main materials of the past week.

The analytical company DeltaDNA researched 200 shareware titles and found out that there are several key ways to keep new players in the game.

We continue to publish collections of sites. This time it’s the turn of game designers. We present five English-language resources with useful content.

Recently, the world launch of the game “Evolution: Heroes of Utopia“, a clicker in the universe of the role-playing strategy “Evolution”, took place. Head of the mobile direction My.com Alexander Enin told us about the tasks of the project.

A bill on the imposition of value-added tax (VAT) on Russian and foreign IT companies has been submitted to the State Duma. This was reported by the RBC edition with reference to information from the official website of the State Duma.

Especially for App2Top.ru Yulia Nabieva has prepared a material about the main app stores and ways of pre-release promotion in Hanguk.

We share a selection of six sites with game art. The main plus is that you don’t have to pay for any picture.

What should a community manager do if the entire development team went to celebrate the New Year? In response to this question, the Gamasutra resource published detailed instructions. We share a retelling.