Reading room of a mobile indie developer: the most interesting thing for the New Year holidays

New year holidays left behind. It's time to look back and find a bunch of interesting links in the series of holidays. We decided to publish the materials of the internal mailing as an experiment, which every week lies in the boxes of KamaGames Studio employees. Information must be publicly available!


We are constantly looking for interesting information.

In our collection, we regularly include news, articles and links that may be useful in mobile development. We would be grateful for the constructive criticism of this format. And do not scold much if there are bearded warriors or controversial judgments in the list. The information itself is not important, but the way we work with it!
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news

http://www.livebusiness.ru/news/11213/ - ABBYY offers cloud services for transfers

http://blog.flurry.com/bid/103350/Christmas-Continues-To-Set-App-Download-Records-In-Spite-Of-Slowing-Growth-and-Globalization-of-App-Market - Flurry o christmas app downloads

http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2014/01/03/king-brings-match-three-game-farm-heroes-saga-to-ios-android/ - Candy Crush Saga creator - King - has released a new match3 toy on mobile platforms that has already become a hit

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/04/zynga-testing-bitcoin-payments-web-games/#!rnM2s - Zynga is testing bitcoin reception in its web games

http://recode.net/2014/01/03/rovio-says-its-taking-free-to-play-slow-uh-sure/ - Rovio admits that while slowly mastering fritupley

http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG%2EBiz/Chillingo+news/news.asp?c=56406 - Chilingo funders leave EA and Chilingo itself

http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG%2EBiz/Nokia+news/news.asp?c=56422 - Nokia discontinues support for MeeGo and Symbian

www.insidemobileapps.com/2014/01/06/is-ibeacons-future-in-mobile-gaming - An interesting idea at the junction of geolocation and in-game offers

http://vk.com/durov?w=wall1_45607%2Fb854e2b29591344e50 - Pavel Durov announced the results of the mobile year for “In Kontakte”, fixing the leadership of the social network

http://www.m24.ru/videos/38510 - The law banning the sale of SIM cards "from the hands" came into force

http://app2top.ru/?p=35597 - Alibaba is developing its own gaming platform

Articles

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/12/27/would-you-like-to-buy-some-blue-crystals-the-game-industry-is-breaking-bad - On the monetization of modern mobile games

http://qz.com/161320/why-christmas-is-an-agonizing-time-for-app-developers/ - What is Christmas for the application market

http://mobiledevmemo.com/the-economics-of-mobile-game-publishing/ - Mobile Publishing Economy

http://mobiledevmemo.com/ltv-for-freemium-products/ - About the meaning of the LTV metric

http://www.lostgarden.com/2013/12/multiplayer-logistics - A great article about logistics (math information users) multiplayer games

http://mobiledevmemo.com/supercells-strategy-boom-beach/ - What is the Supercell strategy for Boom beach

http://blog.xsolla.ru/2013/12/27/prices_in_games_image_or_function/ - Pricing in games: image or functionality

https://medium.com/p/ce05dda53e7c - 7 reasons why appstores are doomed

http://virtualeconomists.com/blogs/news/9721924-virtual-economy-analysis-the-simpsons-tapped-out - Parsing the popular game model The Simpsons: Tapped Out

http://blog.gameanalytics.com/blog/can-supercell-do-it-again-boom-beach-analyzed.html - Parsing the Supercell Boom Beach model

http://mobiledevmemo.com/10-commandments-mobile-app-analytics/ - 10 commandments of mobile analytics

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/207779/ethical_freetoplay_game_design_.php - An article about the moral game design from the former leading game designer Playdom

http://blog.appwared.com/awful-app-review-trend-among-turkish-users-this-is-why-your-app-gets-so-many-one-star-reviews/ - About the specifics of commenting in Turkish Google Play

Links

http://learnunity2d.com - Unity2D Study

http://ru.forvo.com - The largest pronunciation database (to help localizers voice)

https://www.motaword.com - Transfers in the "cloud"

http://mobiledevmemo.com/mobile-app-analytics-platforms/ - Selection of links on mobile analytics

http://www.asoprofessional.com/apptweak-review-as-an-app-store-optimization-tool/ - AppTweak Review, Utilities for ASO

https://placeit.net/ - Download a screenshot of the mobile application and get a photo where the user holds the device with the application

https://medium.com/in-russian/b29f8c7de76d - Naming for technology-based products

http://taplytics.com - A / B tests without updates in the store

http://www.mobile-patterns.com - Large collection of mobile patterns

https://twitter.com/asymco/status/420627679713693696 - Apple AppStore daily statistics: 100 million downloads and $ 25 million in payments to developers


Happy New Year!