The main thing for the working week (10.08.2015 - 14.08.2015)
All this week I have been sharing with my colleagues an observation: the summer turned out to be hot for events. Every day something happens, after which you have to look for the jaw under the neighbor’s table: then Milner will pour money into Vainglory, then Hearthstone earnings will be more than DOTA 2. In general, about the most important thing for the week – see under the cut.
We took a photo of the pie from here: petitworldcitizen.comRussian entrepreneur Yuri Milner invested in the authors of Vainglory
The creator of the Vainglory mobile MOBA, Super Evil Megacorop, received an investment of $26 million. One of the investors was the Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, co-owner Mail.ru Group and DST Global. The head of the company, Kristian Segerstrale, told about this in the studio’s blog.
Another material is an interview with the independent Portuguese studio Fun Punch Games, which is developing a pixel PvP arcade game Strikers Edge.
The other day, Eric Seufert, Vice President for Acquisition and user engagement at Rovio, published a presentation of his report with GDC Europe 2015. There are a lot of interesting things there (including an explanation of how to compete with the giants of the market), so we decided to give a short text that retells it in general terms.
Hearthstone Earns $20 million a month
The card collectible game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft brings Blizzard about $20 million monthly.
The Grand Prix and the prize for the best art at the Indie Game Cup 2015, held as part of White Nights 2015, was awarded to the game Lost Socks Naughty Brothers by Nerf Game. We talked to the team about the history of the studio and the game itself.
The Russian mobile games market has reached 8.8 billion rubles
In 2014, the Russian mobile gaming market grew by 68%. Its volume at the end of last year amounted to 8.8 billion rubles, – reports Mail.Ru Group.
Free-to-play: compare the key indicators of popular genres
The analytical company DeltaDNA compared the key performance indicators (KPIs) of shareware projects of different genres to find out what the market averages look like.
Types of social interactions in MMO
In one piece, Fred Tang, a designer from Beijing, collected all kinds of social interaction in MMO. We offer a short version of the article originally published on Gamasutra on our pages.
21 educational resources for game developers
Game Analytics, an analytical platform and game publisher, has published a list of 21 training resources for game developers on its blog. Now this list can be found on our pages.
