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Future of GameArter - free hosting, no revenue

October 02, 20257 min read

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Introduction

Future of GameArter - free hosting, no revenue

October 02, 20257 min read

Services

Important Update: Conclusion of the GameArter for Partners Service

GameArter for Partners service will be discontinued as of August 31, 2025. From this date forward, no further partner revenues will be calculated.

August 06, 20257 min read

Introduction

Play To Earn Crypto games on the web

Play To Earn games may be the next big trend. How GameArter can help you to manage and distribute this type of new NFTs based blockchain games?

January 24, 20237 min read

VR

Virtual Desktop for Oculus - Full VR experience without performance limitations

Virtual Desktop application allows to bring infinite amount of performance from a PC to any all-in-one VR headset wirelessly. Make the most of Oculus Quest.

January 10, 20217 min read

VR

Oculus Quest 2 - the best all-in-one VR headset to use

Find out why the second generation of Oculus Quest VR headset is considered the best VR device. Ease of use, high performance, low price. + detailed comp ...

January 10, 20217 min read

Dev tools

How to optimize 3D CAD models for maximum performance?

How to optimize and automate that optimization for easy and fast use of 3D CAD models in any applications running on a specific device? Guide for ...

December 26, 20207 min read

Dev tools

Unreal vs Unity | Comparison of game engines

When looking for game engines, you will end up with a pair of the most advanced - Unreal and Unity. How do they differ, what are they suitable for and how important is it to select the right?

December 13, 20207 min read

Dev tools

Home Builder | Free open-source Asset Library for Blender

Home Builder is a free tool and at the same time a library for creating interior spaces in the 3D graphic editor Blender. The addon got great positive initial feedback.

November 17, 20207 min read

VR

Interactive Virtual reality for real estate business - Why and how to create?

Real estate configurator in virtual reality? Virtual tours with unique and cool interactions? What is it, how is it relevant to game development and does it ...

November 13, 20207 min read

Introduction

BMW & autonomous driving - 95% of test kilometers is virtual

Autonomous cars are not only the domain of Tesla and Google, BMW is also trying to develop a self-driving vehicles. How do they develop it and what does a team of 1800 engineers use?

September 03, 20207 min read

VR

What XR controllers exist & why we need Input Manager

What hand controllers exist and how they differ each other? How to develop applications working with all of them? What's input manager and OpenXR? Find out all in few minutes.

August 25, 20207 min read

Dev tools

Prespective - Digital twin software for virtual simulations

Verifying the expected functionality and collision-free states before the production of the first prototype saves a lot of money and time. How does work Prespective in Unity?

August 11, 20207 min read

Dev tools

How to create a 3D model of a real estate in Blender?

Create a 3D model of the real estate yourself and for free. This article describes how to create it in the free Blender software with the Archimesh add-on. You're done in an hour.

July 26, 20207 min read

Introduction

How to effectively develop VR applications?

There are many ways to develop applications, and most of them lead to successful completion. However, development time, quality and price often vary. How to do it best?

July 26, 20207 min read

Services

Rewarded ads for web games

Rewarded ads are now available for mobile as well as PC (desktop) web. Get access to them and implement them simply with GameArter.

July 15, 20207 min read

VR

How to develop motion sicknes free applications?

Motion sickness is a problem that needs to be take seriously. What are the locomotion systems in VR and how to eliminate unpleasant feelings?

July 13, 20207 min read

VR

360° content applications - how do they work and how to develop them?

Applications working with 360 ° photos and videos - how are they created and on what principle do they work? Find out information about technical side of 360 ° media files and applications.

July 05, 20207 min read

Dev tools

3D Modeling Software

Collection of the most used and interesting software tools for modeling and designing 3D objects and environments.

July 01, 20207 min read

Dev tools

MeshRoom - Free 3D scanning of an object with photogrammetry

Do you need to create digital twin of a real object? Find out how to do it easily just with your PC, smartphone and photogrammetry software Meshroom. Comple ...

June 27, 20207 min read

Dev tools

Meet the Digital Human

All you want to know about the digital human in one place. What is it, how is it created, where it is used and how great potential it has. Find out it on Gam...

June 04, 20207 min read

Introduction

Protection of games and apps from piracy

Game piracy seems to be a never-ending story. Getting accurate or at least approximate picture of piracy in video games industry in a…

May 29, 20207 min read

Knowledge space

Web game as part of marketing

What are gaming websites, what benefit they can bring you and why to use them for marketing purposes of your cross-platform games? Summarization in few points.

May 02, 20207 min read

Introduction

Games you can play anywhere

No matter where you are and whatever you are doing, you may get an idea to spend some free time by playing games. Here are tips for the best free of them.

April 03, 20207 min read

Introduction

Custom domain for your game

Description of ways to run games powered by gamearter at your own custom domain.

March 14, 20207 min read

Services

Itch.io support

Do you have a game on GameArter and would you like to have it also on Itch.io without need to host game files on many places? Check how to do it.

March 03, 20207 min read

Services

Websites support

Manage games on many websites from one place. Simplicity you will love.

March 03, 20207 min read

Introduction

Customizable GamePlayer

Do not customize game for individual platforms - deliver all necessary customizations simply by a use of easily customizable gameplayer for native games.

February 26, 20207 min read

Services

GameArter Demo (for partners)

Static preview of GameArter system for partners which helps internet businesses gain additional revenue streams, increase user engagement, and simplify own work.

February 26, 20207 min read

Introduction

Static GameArter demo (for game developers)

Static preview of GameArter system which helps game developers to manage, monetize and distribute games on multiple platforms.

February 26, 20207 min read

Services

Poki support

Poki SDK, ads and gameplayer appearance is supported by GameArter. Manage your cross-platform game distribution from one place.

February 26, 20207 min read

Services

Yandex.games support

Yandex SDK and ads appearance is supported by GameArter. Manage your cross-platform game distribution from one place.

February 26, 20207 min read

Knowledge space

UX optimization & A/B testing

Website UX optimization is a necessary thing and A/B tests great way to do it right. Find out how to do simple and effective A/B testing and UX optimization.

February 20, 20207 min read

Introduction

Web redesign + business model for Games44

Step by step how we set and verified business model for a gaming website, did redesign and launched it according the the plan.

February 02, 20207 min read

Services

Monetization of the game web

Mix of monetization channels and ways to achieve maximum site revenue and working with it for marketing purposes.

December 29, 20197 min read

Services

For partners

A summary of information intended for partners interested for or connected in GameArter ecosystem of game developers and promoters.

December 03, 20197 min read

Services

Ads for web games

A summary of everything you need to know about web based ads for browser games.

December 02, 20197 min read

Introduction

Advantages and disadvantages of web games

Every platform has own advantages and disadvantages - the same is true of web games. Here’s main strengths and weaknesses of web based games.

December 02, 20197 min read

Knowledge space

Ways to make money in the gaming industry

Find out ways to make money in the gaming industry with over $130 billions of annual revenue.

December 02, 20197 min read

Services

Pricing - per Usage

Real usage payments for using GameArter services in games.

December 01, 20197 min read

Services

Pricing - Revenue share

Pay GameArter services in a form of revenue share generated by GameArter

December 01, 20197 min read

Introduction

Why to publish and promote games from GameArter?

Why to prefer games from GameArter when there are so many other game distribution partners from which webmasters of gaming websites can take free games?

November 14, 20197 min read

Introduction

Game distribution for web games - do we need it?

There are many game distribution services for web games to use. Most of them work on revenue splitting business model. Is this right solution and do we need it?

July 02, 20197 min read

Dev tools

Signing android apps with Unity

Making a finger print for publishing games and apps on Google play

May 25, 20197 min read

Dev tools

Google Play Services implementation - Unity game

Guide to implement and setup Google play services into Unity games

May 25, 20197 min read

Dev tools

Ads in Unity games

Advertisement is very popular type of game monetization. What options we have in Unity games?

May 24, 20197 min read

Dev tools

Android games and apps with Unity - How to debug

Guide to how to debug android apps and games made with Unity.

May 22, 20197 min read

Dev tools

Android builds with Unity - dev environment configuration

Complete guide for Unity to start development of Android games.

May 02, 20197 min read

Introduction

Cross Platform Solution

Google play, app store, web, messaging apps. Get your game there easily.

April 24, 20197 min read

Knowledge space

Risk factors in online business

List of risk factors we found by running our online businesses.

April 24, 20197 min read

Dev tools

Instant games with Unity

Develop instant games with Unity.

April 19, 20197 min read

Knowledge space

Page speed optimization

Loading speed really matters. You can read this information everywhere from official Google sources to all blog posts written by gurus over SEO (search engine optimization) and UX (user experience from browsing a website).

April 08, 20197 min read

Introduction

Shared Gaming currency GRT

Cross-games and platforms shared gaming credit developed by GameArter

March 21, 20197 min read

Knowledge space

Price of speed & data

Costs of operating browser games, importance of caching and why GameArter is not so fast as it could be.

March 19, 20197 min read

Services

Pricing

March 19, 20197 min read

Introduction

Revenue share

March 19, 20197 min read

Introduction

Importance of loading time + best practices to increase percentage of successful loads

Every SEO & UX handbook for websites mention loading time as really important. However, how is it with browser games having often higher tens of megabytes?

September 11, 20187 min read

Introduction

About GameArter

Professional services for game developers, automated solutions, friendly to you Saas service.

May 23, 20187 min read

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GameArter platform updates, product notes and overview articles.

18 articles

Services

Publishing, monetization and web game business topics.

13 articles

Knowledge space

Practical knowledge for browser games, XR, tools and online projects.

6 articles

Dev tools

Game engines, production workflows and developer tooling.

14 articles

VR

Virtual reality devices, workflows and interactive experiences.

6 articles