News of the day (03.02.2014)

Zynga has announced the relaunch of its highest-grossing games; Banner Saga publishers will start publishing independent projects; how Flappy Bird should be monetized – about this and much more in the news digest for Monday, March 3.

Industry

Serkan Toto told about the history of the project that called the tops of the Japanese market last spring – Monster Strike.

http://www.serkantoto.com/2014/03/03/monster-strike-mixi/Zynga is going to release a mobile version of FarmVille 2 – FarmVille 2: Country Escape, as well as sequels of Zynga Poker and Words With Friends. 

http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/03/with-three-new-games-zynga-is-fighting-to-matter-in-mobile/Interview with Harebrained Schemes, authors of Shadowrun Returns.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/27/know-your-developer-harebrained-schemes/Game development teams are getting smaller, according to industry veteran Tadhg Kelly, now leading the What Games Are blog and promoting OUYA among game developers.

As an example, he cites Titanfall, which was developed by “only” 60 people.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/02/going-small/Banner Saga publishers are going to publish online projects.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/211879/Banner_Saga_publisher_opens_up_business_for_more_indie_projects.phpMarketing

How Flappy Birds should be monetized, disassembled on http://blog.soom.la/

http://blog.soom.la/2014/02/monetize-flappy-bird-with-in-app-purchase.html