Tomorrow – on the night of January 29-30 – the game will start GameDevParty.ru . It will last a week. The voting on the choice of a theme for game development is now ending, so you can still have time to take part. The authors of the project position it as a Russian-language Ludum Dare.

American users who play on smartphones and tablets spend 57% more time in mobile games than two years ago, NPD Group analysts found. 

2015 may well be a turning point for the mobile games market. This is hinted at by a recently published DAU-UP study, according to which the ROI of Android games in 2014 became comparable to the same within the iOS ecosystem.

At the recent DevNight Dnepr, the producer of the Dnepropetrovsk studio Murka Alexander Shtachenko clearly told how to set technical tasks when developing game projects. For App2Top.ru Alexander prepared a short text version of the speech.

Necrosoft Games studio has launched a free service for creating press whales.

It’s Tuesday evening in the yard, and we have three projects in our collection: “The Mushroom War: Cosmos”, iTrousers and Rider 2: Draw on Canvas.

What should a small indie company do if it wants to stand on a par with the giants of the industry? Recruit a good team, be patient, and do not reduce the quality,” says Andrew Stalbow, CEO of Seriously.

The Singapore studio gained 10 million downloads and a DAU of 100 thousand per year due to the fact that it did not follow market trends.

Resource SocialMediaOnlineClasses.com I have released a large infographic dedicated to how to promote my product on the Facebook social network this year.

Apple has announced the closure of the independent version of the mobile app testing service TestFlight. The company integrates it with iTunes Connect for developers. Website TestFilghtApp.com it will be unavailable from February 26, – Apple has notified users of the service in writing.

Today our selection is sparse – Hammy Go Round and Crevice Hero. 

As it traditionally happens at the end of the month, App Annie analysts summed up the results of the mobile games market of the previous month. We have an analysis of the report in Russian.

The German marketing agency Quaid Media offers mobile developers to advertise projects using television.

The authors of The Tower and Skyward, Artem Merenfeld and Yaroslav Rudakov, told us about the work on minimalistic games, cooperation with Ketchapp and what you can count on at the same time.

How to develop games in the match-3 genre correctly, why publishers are coming back into fashion, what can go wrong when working on a game – about this and much more in our digest for last week.

Rovio Entertainmen has announced the release of a series of books Storm Sisters for teenagers.

On Saturday, it was possible to watch a live broadcast from Dnepropetrovsk DevNight on our website. Actually, we have re-uploaded the publication today so that we can also now see how it was.