The main thing for the week (26.01.2015 - 01.02.2015)

Interviews with the authors of Skyward, a list of sites to which you can send the game for review, a visual guide to setting tasks for game designers – this is not only in our digest for the past week. 

Photo: StuartWebsterAYA games: there is a dream — to make games so popular that they have a minimum of advertising

The authors of The Tower and Skyward, Artem Merenfeld and Yaroslav Rudakov, told us about the work on minimalistic games, cooperation with Ketchapp and what you can count on at the same time.

Mobile PR: 160 sites where they can write about your gameWe bring to your attention a list of resources where reviews of mobile games on iOS are written.

The link with the site name leads directly to the resource, and the “contacts” line contains a link to the contacts page.

Seriously: instant success in the gaming industry is impossibleWhat should a small indie company do if it wants to stand on a par with the giants of the industry?

Recruit a good team, be patient, and do not reduce the quality,” says Andrew Stalbow, CEO of Seriously.

Interaction between the manager and the designer: terms of reference and feedbackAt DevNight Dnepr, producer of the Dnepropetrovsk Murka studio Alexander Shtachenko clearly told how to set technical tasks when developing game projects.

For App2Top.ru Alexander prepared a short text version of the speech.

History of Hero Pop developmentOn January 8, a cute bubble Hero Pop was released in the App Store.

Developers from the Ukrainian studio Nravo shared with us the history of its creation.

App Annie: Russia is on the 9th place in terms of revenue from the App Store and on the 10th place in terms of revenue from Google Play in the worldThe other day, App Annie summed up the results of the year in the App Annie Index: 2014 Retrospective study.

From it, you can find out not only what place Russia occupies in terms of revenue and downloads in the world, but also how the market for mobile applications and games as a whole has changed over the past year. We present his squeeze.