YaGames - Yandex.Games SDK for Defold

[tsimox]

We have made a research a month ago, so here is the result.

Game	URL	Engine	Downloads to the date
Море Слов	https://yandex.ru/games/app/98073	Defold	2129600
Филворды	https://yandex.ru/games/app/100048	Defold	556245
Катапульта	https://yandex.ru/games/app/96919	Defold	286942
Звёздный Кроссворд	https://yandex.ru/games/app/101236	Defold	270902
Маджонг Фрукты: соедини пары	https://yandex.ru/games/app/100734	Defold	13485
4 картинки 1 слово	https://yandex.ru/games/app/104461	Defold	7608
Ай, бросай!	https://yandex.ru/games/app/115235	Defold	7260
ЕГЭ по Истории	https://yandex.ru/games/app/118179	Defold	7112
Знаешь-сдвигаешь!	https://yandex.ru/games/app/103311	Defold	24413

[Pkeod]

Welcome!

Great to see more games made with Defold with tons of players!

You’re a part of OpenMyGame? I hope you can share some more cool information in the future!

[tsimox]

Thank you!

Yes, I am from OpenMyGame.
Happy you found it interesting!

[tsimox]

You gave so many likes to previous version of Yandex.Games.Defold statistics, so I decided to receive additional dopamine through publishing the freshest version of it. All apps have Russian localization, but I GoogleTranslated titles.

UPD. We have 18 apps, 9 publishers, 5 millon installs.

Game	Downloads	Publisher	Rating	URL
Sea of ​​Words	2654572	OpenMyGame	4.3	https://yandex.ru/games/app/98073/
Fillwords	1048482	OpenMyGame	4.2	https://yandex.ru/games/app/100048/
Star crossword	507658	OpenMyGame	4.3	https://yandex.ru/games/app/101236/
Mahjong Fruit: Connect Pairs	358650	Potato Jam	4	https://yandex.ru/games/app/100734/
Catapult	313669	MaratGiliazov	4.4	https://yandex.ru/games/app/96919/
Mahjong Cards	32233	Indiesoft	4.2	https://yandex.ru/games/app/134586/
You know, you move!	29938	Lampogolovii	4	https://yandex.ru/games/app/103311/
4 pictures 1 word	23377	Alexander Bulatov	3.9	https://yandex.ru/games/app/104461/
Unified State Exam in History	17305	Lampogolovii	4.4	https://yandex.ru/games/app/118179/
Emoji	14921	korgames	4.1	https://yandex.ru/games/app/148683/
Edible or not?	12666	Lampogolovii	4.1	https://yandex.ru/games/app/141471/
Ay, throw it up!	9930	Lampogolovii	4.1	https://yandex.ru/games/app/115235/
Ball Vocabulary	8318	Lampogolovii	4.5	https://yandex.ru/games/app/141469/
What color is the crocodile?	8050	Lampogolovii	4.4	https://yandex.ru/games/app/132518/
Sweet couple	4935	Alexander Bulatov	3.4	https://yandex.ru/games/app/132155/
Collect add 21	1845	ColorGames	4.2	https://yandex.ru/games/app/152056/
Filler	1772	korgames	4.9	https://yandex.ru/games/app/141762/
Belt	839	QicCodingLtd	3.5	https://yandex.ru/games/app/152063/

[AGulev]

18! that’s much better! =)

[britzl]

UPD. We have 18 apps, 9 publishers, 5 millon installs.

Let’s double those numbers in 2021!

[britzl]

Feel free to ask any questions. I’ll help you as much as I can.

Any idea what’s wrong if the upload displays as “File contains errors” and “backend: Internal error”?

[aglitchman]

Any idea what’s wrong if the upload displays as “File contains errors” and “backend: Internal error”?

Could you please try again? Sometimes Yandex console has problems with the uploading process. After uploading, click “Save” and refresh the page.

You’ll see “File is verifying”:

Wait a couple of minutes to get “File verified”. You can click the link to test your game!

[britzl]

Could you please try again? Sometimes Yandex console has problems with the uploading process.

I tried multiple times to no avail. But I got help from the nice folks at Yandex and now it is working again. The also deployed a small fix to avoid this problem in the future

[britzl]

Another question: It seems like Yandex is caching the upload and that you get the old version back even if you upload a new version of your game. Is there some way to forcibly clear the cache to get the new version of an upload?

[aglitchman]

This is the most asked question in the Yandex.Games Telegram chat

All I know is that after uploading, you should wait a little more time while Yandex refreshes cache on their CDN servers. Then a single click on the “Refresh” button in your browser should be enough to get the new version.

[AGulev]

usually, you need to use the reference to the game you get in the dashboard after the unloading and checking process. Then it should update your build. Sometimes even if I see this link is ready I refresh the browser it doesn’t help, but if I open the link again from the dashboard - it works.

[britzl]

It seems like Yandex is caching the upload and that you get the old version back even if you upload a new version of your game

In my case it me being stupid and not pressing Save after uploading a new version…

[britzl]

Got an error when trying to show an interstitial. The browser console gave the following advice:

What you can do:
1. Enable monetization: https://yandex.ru/dev/games/doc/dg/console/enable-monetization-docpage/
2. Fill all fields in your draft https://games.yandex.ru/console/application/162334#application-info-draft
3. Ensure in Ads section https://games.yandex.ru/console/application/162334#application-info-draft (bottom)
there is block id (like R-A-123456) and state = work.
If state != work (created, for example), just wait 24 hours: block creation might take time

Need to check what this actually means

[aglitchman]

If state != work (created, for example), just wait 24 hours: block creation might take time

This is what you should do, i.e. wait again, yes! The interstitial will start working soon.

[britzl]

This is what you should do, i.e. wait again, yes! The interstitial will start working soon

Thanks. I had missed the Ads tab on my game page. Today I see ad blocks under the Ads tab. When trying an interstitial ad I got:

v2-proxy:16 Trouble with showing adv:  Error: No adv to show now - it can happen sometimes

I must say that after having tested Poki, GameDistribution and Yandex and not having any prior experience with either one that Yandex is the least user friendly and the hardest to set up. Poki was by far the easiest, with GameDistribution close behind.

But in the end it all comes down to the money (as it almost always does). The game we have been testing has performed significantly better using Game Distribution compared to Poki. It’s going to be interesting to compare this with Yandex once the game is live there as well.

[AGulev]

But in the end it all comes down to the money (as it almost always does). The game we have been testing has performed significantly better using Game Distribution compared to Poki. It’s going to be interesting to compare this with Yandex once the game is live there as well.

It fully depends on your game. The audience on portals is different.
I know a couple of opposite examples where Poki and Yandex make more money than GD.

[britzl]

It fully depends on your game

Indeed. And the quality. The quality of the games on Poki is for instance higher than on GD.

[britzl]

Some Yandex.Games updates:

• New blog post: Developer Case Study - Mahjong Cards
• New blog post: Releasing games on Yandex
• New game: Sector 781 by Ben James

[aglitchman]

Yandex.Games team introduced Leaderboards several days ago - https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fyandex.ru%2Fblog%2Fgamesfordevelopers%2Fliderbordy-na-yandeks-igrakh

I added this new API for leaderboards in version 0.4.1. I don’t have games with high score tables to test the implementation. I’ll be glad if anyone tries to use it!