In Saint Petersburg, the "Gaming Industry" conference took place. Here's a recap of the results

On July 11, the conference "Game Industry" debuted in Saint Petersburg with the support of App2Top. Its attendees included representatives from companies such as VK, Astrum Entertainment, Cyberia Nova, HeroCraft, Lesta Games, Overmobile, and many others.

According to the event organizers, a total of 354 game industry-related companies were represented at the conference (the report can be viewed here). Of these, 78% were developers/publishers, and 24% were service providers.

Distribution of participating companies by specialization (a company may have multiple specializations)

It is also reported that 606 people attended the conference. The number of participants exceeded the organizers' expectations. Initially, it was anticipated that there would be around 500 attendees. Almost half of the participants (48%) were company executives. The second-largest group, comprising 38%, were developers.

Distribution of attendees by profession

A large-scale developers' exhibition was held as part of the conference. There were 167 applications for participation from indie teams across Russia.

Judging by the exhibition, Unity remains the most popular engine, with 61% of the games submitted for participation being developed on it. The exhibition featured mostly action games (44%), adventure games (35%), casual games (23%), RPGs (22%), and shooters (21%). The majority of games were made for PC (70%), with many projects also being developed for Android (43%) and iOS (32%).

Distribution of presented projects by technology

The organizers of the "Game Industry" conference reported that they are pleased with the results of the conference and wish to replicate its success. In October, they plan to hold a second session, which will take place in Moscow. More details about the event will be shared closer to the date, and in the meantime, updates can be followed on the iiconf.ru website.

Below are several photographs from the "Game Industry" conference.