The results are summed up App2Top.ru Awards. Pathfinder became the desktop game of the year, and Mech Arena became the mobile game of the year
Editorial Board App2Top.ru summed up the results of the first prize for achievements in the Russian—speaking gaming industry – App2Top.ru Awards 2021. We talk about how it was and who won.
This year we decided to hold an award for the first time, which would be dedicated to Russian-speaking teams and projects. I wanted to focus on the successes of the domestic industry, which are not often talked about.
The award was held in two stages. Within the framework of the first edition, the nominees were selected based on a number of objective criteria (for example, the availability of transactions, if it was about investors, or the cash register, if it was about mobile games).
The second stage was the voting of experts for the nominees. Participants of the annual interview cycle “Results of the Year” were invited as experts (in it, the editorial board interviews top managers of the gaming industry and related companies about how the year has passed for their companies).
In total, about 120 applications for the results were sent out. We have received confirmations for 80 of them. About 40 participants of the results agreed to participate in the award and vote (we will indicate their names and positions in the publication below).
It was possible to vote for ourselves or for related companies, but in this case we did not take them into account in the final calculation (for example, if company N is part of holding M, and the latter is a nominee in a particular nomination, then we subtracted the vote of company N).
So, the winners:
- Mobile game of the Year — Mech Arena (Plarium);
- Desktop Game of the Year — Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (Owlcat Games);
- Developer of the Year — Owlcat Games;
- Investor of the year — GEM Capital;
- HR brand of the year — SberGames.
Here is a list of experts who took part in the vote App2Top.ru Awards (we have divided them by the niches in which they are engaged).
Development and publication
- Alisa Chumachenko — CEO at SberGamesMaxim Petrov — COO at ZeptoLab
- Alexander Derkach — Marketing Director of Playrix
- The Ushnitsky brothers are the founders of MYTONA
- Vasily Sabirov — Head of Analytics at Easybrain
- Ivan Kozyev — Director of Analytics at Crazy Panda
- Ivan Fedyanin — Co-founder of PlayDucky
- Vlad Suglobov — CEO and Co-founder of G5 Games
- Robert Bagratuni — Head of Mundfish
- Pavel Prokonich — CEO of Herocraft
- Alexander Enin — Head of IT Territory
- Dmitry Terekhin — founder of Nekki
- Elena Grigoryan — Marketing Director of My.Games
- Salah Sivushkov — Director of Business Development at Axlebot
- Alexander Bogdanov — CEO of Belka Games
- Ilya Salamatov — Founder of Meta Publishing
- Vasily Maguryan — CEO of My.Games
- Evgeny Sidorov — CEO of FreePlay
- Vladimir Markin — CEO of Pixonic
- Elena Morina — CEO and Founder of Ravenage Publishing House
- Kirill Zolovkin — indie developer and founder of Heart Core Studio
- Services, platforms, outsourcing
- Stanislav Sychenko in — BD Lead, RU & CIS at ironSourceValeria Alfimova — Chief Revenue Officer in Appodeal Stack
- Samvel Aramyan — Head of Chameleon 42
- Roman Garbar — Marketing Director of Tenjin
- Elizaveta Zharkova — head of the VKontakte gaming platform
- Evgeny Polotnyanko — Head of the Odnoklassniki social network gaming platform
- Konstantin Ivanov — Brand Director of AdQuantum
- Denis Hamin — Head of AllCorrect
- Investments and legal assistance
- The Gursky brothers are the leaders of the GEM Capital gaming directionSergey Evdokimov — Aream&Co.
- Roman Lukyanov — Managing Partner of Semenov&Pevzner
- Ilya Eremeev — Co-founder of The Games Fund
- Alina Davletshina — Senior Lawyer versus.legal
- PR, Media and Books
- Cohen is the editor—in-chief of ShazooRodion Ilyin — Editorial Director of VGTimes
- Anton Gorodetsky — head of the media project about video games PLAYER ONE
- Maxim Fomichev — Head of PR in GameDev
- Vladimir Obruchev — head of the game direction in the publishing house “Bombora”
- Nikolay Borzov — co-founder of Fatpony PR agency
- Kirill Perevozchikov — Founder of White Label PR
- Igor Haspeshny — co-founder of the PR agency GTP Media
