Gaming Digest: September

You are not warmed by a cat, a code, a tea, or a blanket? Then read the heart-warming articles, learn the news of video games and learn useful materials in our digest.


Mobile direction

Mobile games are a new art : how games become akin to books and cinema.
How fundamentally different is the behavior of paying users from non-paying ones: GameAnalytics report .
IOS 9 users are more likely to spend money on games.
Sony blamed mobile games for failing on a PlayStation Vita.
Localytics: 58% of users fall off in the first month .
Square Enix released Final Fantasy XIII-2 in Japan on iOS and Android.
NPD Group: 63% of children prefer mobile devices to computers.
5 unusual observations related to the mobile gaming industry.
Conversion from mobile grows: Criteo statistics .
John Romero announced the release of Dangerous Dave on iOS.
Appszoom Content Manager Janel Torkington: You are promoting mobile apps incorrectly .

Audio
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Simultaneous genres in dynamic music for games.
Power to players: music for user-created levels .
Video: how great sound can help your game "feel" better.
Starter kit for gaming audio : tips, tutorials and code samples.
Half-Life approach to music.
Memorable sound design of the main menu.
Sony: how to choose music for the project.

Making games

Making an HD remake of a pixel game correctly .
What should be the video game menu. Ten Commandments for the developer.
One strange trick to write better code.
Microtutorial : we apply modular technology to wheels.
7600 assets of Infinity Blade are now available to Unreal Engineers for free .
3D game engine built with C ++, OpenGL and GLSL.
More than 30 popular translations of tutorials on game development.
Best cross-platform development: key tutorials from Microsoft.
The release of Super Mario Galaxy 3 is possible only after the release of the next console from Nintendo.
Algorithm for procedural generation of dungeons.
Introduction to game design : basic concepts and principles of game design.
Introduction to game design : game state, game particles, mechanics and other basic components of games.
Creating an exciting gaming story: a guide for indie developers.
The official SDKBOX release for Cocos2d-x.
French artist and game designer Nathan Lovato told how to improve the graphics of the game .
Blender 2.76 announcement : new program features.
Marmalade 7.9 engine release.
Silicon Studio unveiled version 1.3β of the Paradox game engine.
The Infiltrator project is open and available free of charge for the Unreal Engine 4.
CryEngine 3.8.4 release with partial support for Visual Studio 2015, the new Height Map based on Ambient Occlusion and other features.
Epic Games continue to use Unreal Dev Grants.
The great release of Unreal Engine 4.9 is a stable build.
Release AXMA Story Maker 4.0 with support for the development of audio books.

news

Valve punished developers who offered free games on Steam for user feedback.
Video game voice actors can start protests .
Sony's PlayStation One celebrated its twentieth anniversary .
Super Mario Maker is still number one in Japan .
Lucy Bradshaw leaves EA .
Studio Twisted Pixel is no longer owned by Microsoft .
Rockstar weren't impressed with the BBC's Grand Theft Auto movie.
Nintendo introduced the new president of the company .
Nintendo patented a controller with a side scroll wheel.
Kickstarter was re-incorporated as Public Benefit Corporation (PBC).
In 2016, California will launch an attraction based on Mass Effect .
Amazon hired lead game designer Guild Wars 2 .
Chris Avellone joined Larian Studios .
FarmVille creator Mark Skaggs breaks up with Zynga .
Konami is ready to release new Metal Gear without Hideo Kojima .
Gameloft closes studio in Seattle.
Games for Apple TV will require remote support .
Xbox Live Indie Games will be closed .
Sperasoft hired former director of Rockstar Games .
Fiksu closed office in the United States.
The Konami community manager denied the company's withdrawal from the console market .
Halfbrick left without designers and are not going to hire new ones .
AniVisual Contest # 2: Fantasy .
Sundog Software is once again the best in its field .
Amazon announced the game bundle Fire TV.
Users of Android devices will be able to stream gaming on YouTube Gaming.
Zynga acquired a startup of its former employee.

Video Game News

New horror game Calendula tries to stop you if you start playing.
At least the music in Mirror's Edge 2 will be what you need .
Nintendo confirmed the release of their first mobile game .
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will appear on the PC on January 15th .
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 is full of glitches .
The developers of Halo 5: Guardians promise a frequency of 60 frames per second .
The company SNK Playmore announced the release of the game King of Fighters for PS4 in 2016.
The EA is forced to withdraw 13 women from the FIFA 16 game because of the NCAA rules.
First-person shooter Ghost in the Shell will appear on the PC in 2016 .
The mini-game Slave Tetris was removed from Steam after resonance in social media.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will not have Xbox 360 and PS3 campaigns .
Plarium announced the transfer of the Alien vs. Predator franchise to the world of one of their games .
SpaceX Falcon 9 Lander - eight-bit video game of incredible complexity .
Wolfenstein sequel: The New Order will be released in two years ?
The system requirements for Street Fighter 5 for PC.
7 things you need to know about Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps.
Naughty Dog showed an early design by Nathan Drake of Uncharted.
FIFA 16 or PES 2016? Both.
The developers have decided on the release date of the new Hitman.
The author of Five Nights at Freddy's is developing a role-playing game .
The update for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 "weighs" more than the game.
Takeshi Kitano first appeared in the “frame” of Yakuza 6.
Announced release date for Prison Architect.
Above Silent Hills was supposed to work mangaka Junji Ito .
The Nathan Drake Collection will take more than 40 GB on a PS4 hard drive.
In one of the most rare and old games about Sonic will soon be possible to play on the PC .
In Rainbow Six Siege there will be no story campaign .

It is interesting

Wilhelm Tat, head of external products at Rovio: motivated advertising - yesterday .
Probably your PS3 inside looks disgusting .
How to transfer the fighting game genre to online: the three principles of Seth Killian .
Video course "Mathematics for game developers."
Nathan Altis talks about the development of the original Super Mario game and Super Mario Maker.
Games on the discs will always exist.
18 months of work as an indi-developer: conclusions .
Overview of the new features of 3ds Max 2016.
Games as two-way communication .
4 lessons of creating games that I learned from over thirty years of software development.
Video : create artificial intelligence for Hearthstone.
Developing games on Linux in 2015.
Why we created our own engine for our indie game Future Unfolding.
The joy and tragedy of flash-programming.
“Games as art” is good for business .
9 unreasonably rarely used game genres for your future project .
What can developers teach the art of the XIX century ?
Video : Adding handmade details to a procedurally generated world of your game.
Wizard's Lizard: Watch HTML5 games on Steam.
Video : parsing the Journey decoration.
On the creation of the game Crisis Mountain in 1981 .
Autodesk Maya 2016: an overview of new features.
How else Heart.Break () turns players into coders .
Where are all the flash developers?
3 steps to improve the graphics of your game.
Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about his participation in WWE 2K16 .
Chartboost told which 4 key shareware metrics should be monitored during the trial run.
Leonid Sirotin about the crisis of the free-to-play system : how to survive in Kali-yuga.
Master of Orion: how the legend was created .
Ron Gilbert: how to plan a game budget .
Instagram is an expensive way to promote games.
Interview with evangelist "Microsoft Russia" about Imagine Cup, support for indie teams and the gaming industry.
Apple TV as a game console : the opinions of journalists and representatives of the gaming industry about the new set-top box.
7 deadly sins game designer.
Project Manager Game Insight on the types of game developers : "adult", "festivalman" and others.
App Annie: how to take screenshots of games and applications.
A remake of The Legend of Zelda on Unreal Engine 4.
10 topical philosophical ideas that video games have taught you. And you did not know .
Designer Hearthstone: 6 tips for anyone who wants to become a game designer.
Which is faster : Metal or OpenGL ES?
First impression : how to present your project to partners, investors, and journalists.
"Cybersport - the future of gaming monetization": the founder of NoobStars about which model can replace free-to-play in the near future.
Mad Max review by KitchenRiots.
The network has a full playlist of lectures from DevGAMM Hamburg 2015.
Eric Schofert talked about whales and user retention in shareware applications.
Newzoo: The eSports market will reach $ 765 million by 2018.

Press

The 37th issue of FPS, an electronic journal dedicated to various types of digital creativity, has been released.

Podcasts

VideoGamer UK podcast : discussion of Forza 6, Mad Max, Until Dawn, and MGSV.
VideoGamer UK podcast : about Destiny The Taken King, Halo 5 Guardians and Metal Gear Solid 5.
VideoGamer UK podcast : about FIFA 16, Street Fighter 5, SOMA and Konami's decision about AAA games.
VideoGamer UK podcast : Rainbow Six: Siege, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, Lego Dimensions and more.
State of the debate around video games.
September podcast on Hobby Gamedev.
Siggraph 2015 and graphics in games.
Sergey Galenkin on eSports and Apple announcements .
Sergey Galenkin's podcast : from Kickstarter and Greenlight to release and Steam Summer Sale.
KitchenRiots podcast on Gamescom. Release 12.
Podcast from “Disgusting Men” : why play FIFA 16 and NHL 16 well, why go back to Destiny and much more.

Crowdfunding

True Detective: the creators of the game raised $ 30,000 through Kickstarter and disappeared .
Survival-project Etaria is looking for support on the Boomstarter .
Allison Road is out on Kickstarter.