In Kiev, Kiev Games Night was held on the topic "How to open your game dev studio"

It is surprising that no one has covered this event. A week ago, a “Games Night” conference took place in Kiev. The event was divided into two parts: a block of mini-reports (5-10 minutes each) and a round table, where the speakers answered questions from the audience (which gathered an unexpected amount). And also - free communication. Admission was free.

In general, the initial message of meetings of this format was “to give people the opportunity to meet / talk”, because Our exUSSR gamedev has a rather low amount of horizontal connections, which is sometimes a problem.

Each of the speakers shared his experience of creating an igrodelcheskoy studio. He told about the problems that he had to face, gave advice, etc.
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Reports was 11:

• Andrei Harutyunyan ( Colibri Games ) - about how a team of 3 people made their game
• Andrei Prokhorov ( 4A Games ) - authors of a series of Metro games, etc.
• Artem Mironovsky (Nival Red) - about how the team go under the wing of the giant Nival
• Oleg Yavorsky ( Vostok Games ) - about how the authors of STALKER were looking for funding for a sequel
• Igor Karev ( Tatem Games ) - authors of “Anabiosis” and many other games
• Ken Leaver ( Eastlabs ) - an incubator gaming startups
• Oleg Klapovsky ( GOG.com ) is the 3rd largest platform after Steam and Origin
• Evgeny Zhukov ( Digitilus ) - about how and when to go on Kickstarter
• Oleg Pridyuk ( Unity ) - about how a team of 3 people in the garage with the money of one of the parents wrote the world famous engine
• Andrei Iones ( Saber Interactive ) - on development on consoles
• Sergey Klimov ( Daedalic ) - about quests and storytelling in games

Video performances:



At the end of the conference, one of the organizers, Sergey Klimov (the one on the video with the beard :), made some summary of the requirements for the creators of the game dev studio and wrote about it on his blog . In short, this is: Experience, Abilities, Vision.

Unfortunately, nobody recorded the video from the round table (or I don’t know about it).

For the conference, we are thankful to her ideological inspirers and organizers: Sergey Galenkin ( @galyonkin , blog ), Sergey Klimov ( @sergeiklimov , blog ) and Mikhail Kuzmin ( @kuzmitch_ru ).

In the near future, the team has plans to hold similar meetings in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Also, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that every week these same people record a podcast dedicated to the gaming industry, where they talk about domestic cooking, often invite interesting guests, etc. In general, I highly recommend to anyone who is interested in game-devoting.