DESIGNERS OF DEVELOPMENT

As we already mentioned in part one of this article, Annapurna Interactive appears to have been the biggest winner in app design during 2018, with Donut County and Gorogoa. While they are the only developers to feature twice in Apple’s most popular apps of 2018, the rest of the list is a combination of renowned developers and up-and-comers in the industry.

Epic Games and Tencent Mobile International Limited have now established themselves in the app-based games industry, with Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds shading the efforts of the regular big-hitting developers Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Supercell. The Voxel Agents, mentioned earlier, and Snowman (creators of the Apple TV Game of the Year, Alto’s Odyssey were among the other developers to do well with their games apps this year.

Calm.com and 10% Happier Inc. were among the most successful developers in the Self-Care category of the year’s trends, and were joined by the likes of Headspace Inc., Joyable Inc., Mend Tech Inc., Fabulous, Shine, The Bikini Body Training Company Pty Ltd and Tru Luv Media, Inc.