The main materials of last week (08.10 – 12.10)

The most interesting articles and materials from App2Top last week: Angry Birds are sent to a galaxy far, far away, the Simpsons have turned into zombies, Supercell earn half a million bucks on iOS per day, and a former Bungie employee tells what is the main thing in the plot for a mobile game.   

1. Will there be a Death Star in Angry Birds?Rovio has announced a joint project with LucasArts, dedicated to two powerful friendships.

2. EA increased profits with the help of zombiesThe Simpsons: Tapped Out took first place in the American box office apps chart after the appearance of the living dead in the game.

3. The fate of paid games on mobile marketsJournalists from PocketGamer decided to figure out what a paid game can count on in today’s mobile app market.

Is there an opportunity to make money not on f2p and not on freemium when it comes to iOS and Android?

4. Supercell games earn $500 thousand a day on iOSAccording to representatives of the Finnish Supercell, its two f2p games for iOS earn over $500,000 daily.

Thus, taking into account the 30% that Apple has left, the Clash of Clans strategy and the Hay Day farm bring about $350 thousand to the “hot Finnish guys” every day.

5. More than half of developers earn less than $500 per monthThe analytical company GigaOm conducted a study of the earnings of mobile application developers.

Most of them receive no more than $500 per month from one program.

6. MAU Angry Birds is 200 millionIn May, Rovio reported that the total number of downloads of all games under the Angry Birds franchise reached 1 billion.

Not a huge amount, considering that, for example, the total number of all downloads from the App Store is 25 billion. Today, new details about the famous “bird” brand have become known.

7. “A lot of letters”, or do the players want to readDo users who play social games (including on mobile devices) want to read in-game text?

With such a question, Gamasutra journalist Frank Cifaldi turned to the authors of Indiana Jones Adventure World from Zynga.

8. Mobile bikes from the authors of HaloThe founders of Industrial Toys (one of them used to work at the legendary Bungie), told about their attitude to the plot in games and how to adequately implement it in mobile projects.