Digest of the game industry: December

It's time to get out of the winter holiday hibernation! Read the news, interesting reviews of games and predictions for 2016 in our digest.



Mobile direction

Why are cards in games for the East and the West so different ?
The difference between the games is three in a row in the west and east.
Free-to-play: Why don't mobile users get paid ?
Test your icons!
Top 5 things you should not do when creating an application.
The best mobile games of 2015 according to App2Top.
How to get rich in 2016: 7 trends in the mobile gaming market.
Mobile market trends: forecast for 2016 .
Fiksu analyst report: CPI on Android and iOS has declined.
Most mobile apps in China cannot hold users for more than a week .
Google confirms that the new version of Android will not use the Oracle Java API .
Nintendo's first mobile game suspiciously resembles a social network .
Yandex.Store is a store for hosting Android applications .
Draw into the game in 60 seconds: a new feature of Trial Run Ads from Google.
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Audio

The music system in the game Eon Altar.
Who cares about organizations that specialize in audio for games?
Sound design heavy armor for the InSomnia Project.

Making games

Detailed analysis of bugs in the project OpenMW.
Super Mario World method: using evolution and expansion .
How to implement and use the message queue in the game.
A * Pathfinding for 2D platformer: grab the ledge .
How to make a turn-based RPG game using Phaser. Part 1 .
Final Fantasy VI: doing a HD remake correctly .
The developer blog game Arrival in Hell: dialogue .
The importance of character poses in the game and other observations.
UI design in the game.
Christmas analysis of the root .NET libraries (CoreFX).
The educational game was released three in a row from the creators of the Unreal Engine.
Release MyRPG Master v0.900.
Vertex reveal the secrets of game graphics.
Game Guru V1.11 release.
New engine - Atomic Game Engine.
Release UNIGINE 2.1.
The announcement of the NoMaps tool in CRYENGINE 3.8.6.
Release CRYENGINE 3.8.6.
What's new in Blend4Web 15.11.
Update Imperial Game Engine 2.5.
Facts about hexagonal grids.
Leadwerks Game Engine 4 - the release of the preliminary version .
Release Xenko 1.5β.

Developments

Announcement of Vision Summit 2016.
Announcement of the White Nights Helsinki 2016 and Indie Game Cup.

news

Hideo Kojima opens a new studio and is working on an exclusive for the PlayStation 4.
Apple called the new chief operating officer .
2K Games hires PlayStation veteran Murray Pannell.
The ten-year-old boy became the first national Minecraft champion in the United States.
Nintendo are working on a touchscreen gamepad .
Julien Merceron joins Bandai Namco.
A Russian is suing Bethesda Softworks because he has become dependent on Fallout 4 .
League of Legends is now fully owned by the Chinese Tencent .
The heroine of Final Fantasy advertises a collection of 2016 Louis Vuitton handbags .
Based on the game Plants vs. Zombies will build an amusement park .
On Steam, 77,000 accounts are stolen every month.
Newzoo report: mobile market volume in 2015 reached $ 30 billion . China has become the largest representative of the direction and continues to grow rapidly .
Paradox Game Engine renamed to Xenko.
SOOMLA : Most paying users in Asia.
Apple 's Swift programming language will become open .
A special controller for the Pokken Tournament has gone on sale.
Michael Fassbender told about the film on Assassin's Creed.
Project Anarchy engine is closed .
The premium controller for the Xbox will be hard to buy in the coming months.
Included with the Oculus Rift will be sold platformer Lucky's Tale .
Valve apologized for the consequences of the hacker attack on Steam.
Video : Sony talked about the new features of the PlayStation 4.
Head of Mass Effect: Andromeda left Bioware .
Bethesda Softworks reduce the number of developers The Elder Scrolls Online.

Video Game News

Dirt Rally will appear on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in April.
Portal, Halo: Reach, Fable are backward compatible with Xbox One .
The next Ken Levine game will unfold in a “small open world . ”
Interview with Taka Kawasaki of Epic Games Japan on the work on Final Fantasy VII Remake and the Unreal Engine.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 quietly appeared on the PS3 and Xbox 360 .
Final Fantasy XV will be released in 2016 .
Announcement of Paragon on the Unreal Engine 4.
Sony promise an unprecedented flow of high-profile hits and exclusives in 2016.
In development is a gloomy two-dimensional fighting game Bounty Battle.
Roster game Dissidia Final Fantasy replenish Ramza .
Producer Bayonetta hints at a certain announcement .
Announced game Psychonauts 2.
The western release of Yakuza 0 can be very late .
Announced two new heroes Battleborn : Gault and Dyanda.
In the Steam service will be released a parody of the games about Mario .
It became known why there would be no Sagat in Street Fighter V.
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition will be released in the spring of 2016 .
The second alpha version of Star Citizen has been released.
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End release is delayed .
Total Annihilation has finally appeared on Steam .
Devilish Hand: Tales Of Berseria is coming to PC soon .
Post-apocalypse of the old school: the game came UnderRail .
God Eater will be released on PC .
Anime Fighting One Piece: Burning Blood will be released for the PC .
In Attack on Titan, the main character Eren will turn into a titanium that can be controlled .
Details of the gameplay and screenshots of The Division.
Guilty Gear Xrd and other Arc projects for PC .
Full Throttle Remastered will be released in 2017 .
Tales of Berseria will be released in Europe on the PlayStation 4 and PC.
Release Fable Legends moved to the spring.
Zombies, zombies, zombies! Dying Light: Enhanced Edition will be released in February .
Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is already in development .

It is interesting

Gaming industry development forecast for 2016.
The best for 2015 according to Gamasutra: games, developers, events and trends.
Post-mortem : Port Bastion to PS Vita.
Shigeru Miyamoto talks about the complexity of the game levels in the action genre.
Indie games: 11 best trailers of 2015.
Review of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.
Entering text in games using Intel RealSense 3D cameras.
Postmorthem games hack.source.net, or Why is it so difficult to create online multiplayer.
Review Just Cause 3.
Very detailed making of the game Toto Temple Deluxe.
Review of the game DiRT Rally.
In the studio, Space Budgie talked about the advantages and disadvantages of early access.
Screencast : do you create a game design or drop everything in a heap?
Review on Yakuza 5.
Ups and downs of Kinect.
How to become a game producer: part 1 , part 2 , part 3 .
Events that define 2016 .
Game design as such does not exist .
Video : 5 examples of good design in 2015 games.
100 best gaming studios in the world according to the magazine Develop.
Creating games that will allow viewers of the live stream to take part in what is happening .
The developers of Playrix, ZeptoLab, Plarium and Pixonic are about the New Year game mechanics .
How to find a partner to develop the game.
"Steam without explanation deleted our game based on Five Nights at Freddy's" - the story of Russian developers .
Fallout 4 Authentic Building Guide .
A selection of cosplay in the game theme for 2015.
The best games of the year according to Kitchen Riots.
7 combat systems , which must know game designer.
Console Wars : Sega vs. Nintendo.
Why many game developers hide their participation in high-profile projects and who benefits from it.
Handicaps in competitive games.
Overview of the mobile game Tap Titans: problems of clickers, user retention and monetization.
The economy of large eSports : budgets, player incomes and prospects.
In open world games, you must stop manually creating the design and plot.
Apple Watch Development is a game of limitations.
10 questions that you ask yourself before buying a Wii U.
10 games for which you can and should buy Wii U.
Study : Most indie developers live off gaming, Kickstarter, and personal savings.
History of Alto's Adventure.
The network has a full playlist of lectures DevGAMM Minsk 2015.
On the app stores and the promotion of games in South Korea.
Data analysis with segmentation: Playkot experience.
10 tips for novice game design.
Spellgun remade the Chinese game for the western market.
How to get to Xbox Live?
What does the success of the Rocket League teach us?
A simple way to keep up and earn more in game devs from Sergey Galenkin.
Fallout 4: performance analysis .
Review of Rise of the Tomb Raider: Lara goes to Siberia.
New show "Igrodely" on the channel Nickelodeon.
The gamer kept the console turned on for 20 years .
Review by Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam.
Video : the story of the creation of the Perfect Dark shooter.

Press

The 39th New Year's edition of the FPS magazine, dedicated to various programs for developers and game creation.
The sixth issue of the electronic magazine DF Mag , dedicated to the most amazing moments in the history of video games, has been released.
December and January numbers of Render Magazine.

Podcasts

Can video games make you smarter ?
In his podcast, Sergey Galyonkin discusses with the guests scenarios in games, the appointment of script writers in game devs, work with them, work organization, narrative and other fashionable words.
Game design, mechanics, prototypes, dizdoki, specialization, communication with programmers and producers, tools and so on in the podcast Sergei Galyonkin .
Practical aspects of developing projects for virtual reality, mobile VR, arcades, rendering difficulties, market potential and other interesting things in the Sergey Galyonkin podcast .
The podcast from Sergey Galyonkin : prototyping in game design, correct focus, iterative approach, what you need and what you do not need to prototype.
Results, changes in the industry and forecasts for 2016 in the podcast by Sergey Galenkin .