Digest of the game industry: July

Summer offers a lot of options for spending time: traveling, outing, hiking, reading our digest. We advise you to manage everything: enjoy the sunshine and keep abreast of gaming industry news.



Mobile direction

The second part of the postmoor Nubs' Adventure - research platform for iOS and Android.
Mobile is a new battlefield for streaming.
Rovio released Angry Birds 2 after 13 variants of the original game of 2009.
Do not listen to your users (and other lessons creating an application that will directly interact with the consumer).
Google gave Android developers new beta testing capabilities .
Best App Store Optimization Tools .
Survival simulator Don't Starve appeared on the tablets .
Simple rules for the success of a mobile application.
Changes in App Store Ranking Algorithms : More weight for additional options.
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Audio

Are all gamers musicians ?
Creating the right music in the game : relevance versus constancy.

Making games

Why do you need a programmer if you use the Unreal Engine 4.
A Guide to Coding Graphic Shaders for Beginners, Part 3 .
Effective coding : do not repeat.
Placement of assets in the pseudo-3D world: professional tricks.
How to include acceptable death mechanics in your game.
Visual tips in the design of levels.
How to make subtitles : the basics and practice.
Cards in the game Jelly Splash: beauty in simplicity .
Creating alien writing in the game Infinifactory.
Video: learn to love procedural art while working on No Man's Sky.
Color in games : a closer look at one of the most useful game design tools.
Video: how the company Other Ocean created the game #IDARB (and you can too!)
Video : a retrospective of Civilization: Beyond Earth design.
Video : analysis of hand-made artworks and the design of the game Gorogoa.
A visual guide to creating multiplayer levels .
Beginner's guide to writing a game script .
Professional game developer tools .
Dirty coding tricks from game developers.
Writing more compelling storytelling in the game .
Continuing the series of articles on the Trinity game development method: part 5 , part 6 , part 7 , part 8 .
The GemRB game engine has been updated to version 0.8.3: the text system has been improved, 10-player party support has been added, the Android build has been improved, IWD2 scripts and effects have been added.
Iterative level design : how the game development process at Bethesda Studios works.
How to create a beautiful game level ?
Microsoft introduced the release of its updated development environments Visual Studio 2015 and .Net 4.6.
Release Blend4Web 15.07 : expanding the functionality of the node editor when working with transparency, the ability to work with the server on the local network, simplifying the configuration of planar reflections and much more.
NVIDIA's HairWorks 1.1 release for creating realistic hair and fur characters!

news

China has canceled a 15-year ban on consoles .
The Epic Games company together with the NVIDIA company holds the Architectural Visualization Challenge VI competition "The Vineyard". Participants need to create a building or an architectural ensemble in the “The Vineyard” theme in the Unreal Engine 4 game engine.
The Women in Games Conference will be held on September 2 in London.
Puma will release real boots from Metal Gear Solid 5 .
In the near future, Xbox One will support the management of a computer mouse .
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata died of cancer at the age of 55.
Casual Connect launched an Eastern European developer support program .
Registration is now open for the Moscow Nights 2015 conference , which will be held on October 13–14.
Game of Thrones inspired the creators of Horizon: Zero Dawn.
The Clone Wars : Snail Games Studio comes to life with Skymoons.
The creator of Minecraft: free-to-play needs to be banned .
The publishers of War Thunder have succeeded in blocking the popular fan YouTube channel about the game.
In Square Enix talked about the games for the Nintendo NX .
The British company Marmalade opens a gaming studio in Portugal .
The head of Square Enix spoke in favor of game sequels .
One of the creators of EverQuest left Daybreak Games .
GameAnalytics launch publisher .
Kongregate has launched a support program for independent developers .
Based on the "The Witcher" will release a board role-playing game .
Gameloft lose players and close offices in New York.
The gaming industry has outpaced sports revenue growth.
A mobile game from the PewDiePie letsplayer is being prepared for release.
NetEase Publishers will give indie teams half a million dollars to launch games.
The company Blizzard Entertaiment has announced a contest Rock the Cabinet 2015 for game developers and creators of modifications.
KRIL-2015 - a big competition has started for the creation of games in the Interactive Fiction genre (text adventure games, textual quests, etc.)
Wargaming.net launched a publishing initiative .
Facebook hosted the Super Mario Maker competition .
Revealed the first details of the film adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy's.
Jade Raymond will lead the Canadian studio Electronic Arts.
Video games will help teach the police not to shoot at civilians .
Bethesda: we will not put mobile games on stream .
Android games will earn $ 3.6 billion in China .
It became known the name of the film director Minecraft .
GREE International lay off a third of its employees , but open offices in Berlin and Melbourne.
Cybersportsmen will be tested for drugs .
Half-Life launched on smart watches .
Fallout 4 prohibits falling in love with robots .
The Street Fighter 5 beta test on PS4 lasted just an hour.
Italian publisher and developer Digital Bros opens an office in China .
Razer has confirmed the purchase of the manufacturer of Android consoles Ouya.

Video Game News

Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima are planning the next joint project , but this will not be Silent Hills.
Dragon Quest 11 will be released on 3DS, PlayStation 4 and NX.
The release of Project CARS on Wii U is canceled .
Nexon will publish a free-to-play version of the game Titanfall in Asia.
In Ubisoft Zombi there will be more melee weapons, but there will be no multiplayer.
A WWE 2K16 wrestling simulator will add a Terminator .
Gearbox is looking for third-party developers to create the next Duke Nukem game.
Free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers in August.
The release of the Batman: Arkham Knight temporary patch for PC is scheduled for August.
Details gameplay Dark Souls 3.
Release ArcheAge held in the fall.
Incredible success of early access ARK: Survival Evolved.
The creators of Mass Effect and Dragon Age have announced a new role-playing game .
Targem Games and Gaijin Entertainment present new screenshots and sketches of locations of post-apocalyptic MMO-action Crossout.
Trial launch of a mobile game based on Pac-Man.
2K Games have confirmed the development of Mafia 3 .
There will be a mobile game based on the animated series Futurama .
New UE4 projects that have received investment Unreal Dev Grants.

It is interesting

What Yoko Ono art teaches us in creating video games.
Zeboyd Games: Indie games should cost less .
What happens when you give players 100 attempts to win a roguelike game?
5 ways to become a terrible game designer .
Publications Vice and Wired published the results of the study of sexism in the field of video games : the worse a man plays, the more he is angry at girl gamers.
Reflections on Iwata - game developer and Nintendo boss.
A love letter to the graphics of the game Odallus.
Post-mortem : Technobabylon adventure game in the style of cyberpunk.
Basics of game production.
What actually happened with the game Sunset from Tale of Tales.
3 things that make Fallout 3 special .
Street Fighter for Designers: Top 8 Lessons from Evo 2015.
Design vs. plot in the game.
RPGs that contributed something new to the industry: part 1 , part 2 .
Creation and sale of games in the genres of the visual novel and dating simulator .
The state of the industry according to GDC Europe: developers are moving from mobile phones to PCs.
Why game developers need to constantly carry a notebook .
We make educational games correctly (using the example of Never Alone).
On replayability : emotions, mechanics and needs.
Innovations in the genre of HOPA-games.
In Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes Easter Egg, a prediction of the breakup of the collaboration of Hideo Kojima and Konami was discovered.
Details of the creation of Street Fighter V.
How to know that your game will live ?
What programming languages ​​and technologies are most used on hackathons .
Plarium history : from a startup to a global international gaming company for 5 years.
Infographics: a comparative portrait of MMO-players from Russia, USA, China and South Korea.
Research from GDC representatives : Sweden is the center of the European gaming industry.
How to make a good game : 7 qualities of a successful developer.
3 key techniques for monetizing users in free-to-play games.
Plan B: How Microsoft is trying to save Xbox One .
"A good idea will always win a big budget": 7 principles of success for the head of Nintendo Satoru Iwata.
11 lifehacks to speed up the design of your game.
Video from White Nights 2015: the round table " On the mobile-gaming business with integrity ".
White Nights 2015: round table " Social networks from the point of view of game developers. "
The game is over: what mistakes in gamification should be avoided.
Features of war that are never counted in games.
Rating of the most successful video games in the world.
50 best easter eggs "The Witcher 3".
The difference between launching the game in Odnoklassniki and VKontakte.

Press

The July issue of " Gambling ."
The release of the amateur PDF-magazine DF MAG №5 , dedicated to video games of the past and present, their development and everything that is somehow connected with the game theme.

Podcasts

Video podcast Kitchen Riots # 11 .
Mini-podcasts about paid games for the App Store, virtual reality and Gamescom from Sergey Galenkin.

Crowdfunding

Shenmue 3 completes a Kickstarter fundraiser with a record-breaking $ 6,333,295 in games. 69,320 people took part in the campaign.
Experience and conclusions from the failed campaign on Kickstarter: part 1 , part 2 .
Giants hide a growing problem : video games on Kickstarter in the first half of 2015.
The app "Rustle" for the hearing impaired collects funds on the Boomstarter .