Come to KRI 2014

In the calendar of all Russian game developers, the days from 2 to 4 October 2014 are circled in red. At this time, Crocus Expo will host one of the most important annual events in the Russian gaming industry - KRI 2014 conference. The history of the CWI has been taking place since 2003, and therefore bears the proud title of the oldest annual event in Russia for gaming industry professionals. Here, experts from various professions gather to exchange experience: programmers, designers, animators, artists, scriptwriters and many others.

By the way, starting this year, the CWI takes place simultaneously with another event, the locomotive, the IgroMir exhibition. This event is intended primarily for the players themselves, here you can see almost all computer, console and mobile gaming innovations. Big and noisy show. So from the point of view of the gaming industry professionals, the joint holding of the GDC and IgroMir is very convenient, you can show yourself and see people and share your experience.
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Of course, our gaming department will take part in this conference. We have prepared a whole troop of speakers, one can say the color of our games. They do not hide their rich professional experience and are eager to share it with the developer community. To make it easier for you to navigate, we have prepared brief announcements for each performance.

Development and trends in IMO (Hall 1, October 3)
Alexander Mishulin, creative director of the studio Allods Team

Any game genre evolves over time, it is a completely natural process. Approaches, unwritten rules, genre standards are changing. And it was especially clearly manifested in the development of the Allods Online and Skyforge projects. With their examples, Alexander will demonstrate how different the approach to the same gaming features that form the basis of the MMORPG genre. Of course, he will also give a detailed account of the reasons why the development team applied certain solutions without blindly repeating the same standardized approaches.

Skyforge: rendering technology (Hall 1, October 3)
Sergey Makeev, technical director of the studio Allods Team

Sergey will share the details of creating a render system that is used in the Skyforge game engine. In particular, we will discuss the physically correct system of materials and lighting, post-processing, deferred shading, interaction with translucency, multiple optimization techniques and many other technologies used in this render system.

Tips for creating PvP cards (Hall 1, October 3)
Danil Radchenko, senior level designer at Allods Team

Danil wants to talk about some of the “applied” points that are worth remembering during the construction of the level. There are many that can be recruited, but only four will be highlighted in the report: determining the scale of the map by time, gameplay "history", minimizing assets when building the base layout and working with statistics. This is not only for an MMO and it is not “tricks”, but rather those moments that are usually (astonished by other designers) are forgotten when developing levels and often because of this get problems

Never Ending Story (Hall 1, October 3)
Alexey Kolesnikov, senior screenwriter for the studio Allods Team

In his report, Alexey will talk about the specifics of writing scripts for MMORPG games. Listeners will learn about how best to build a story, how to develop it as the game progresses, what characteristic problems the scriptwriters face and which solutions are most effective. Also, Alexey will share his observations on some aspects of the perception of the plot by the players and much more.

Evolution: graphics and mechanics (Hall 1, October 3)
Alexander Chernyakov, IT Territory Programmer

The presentation will be devoted to the subtleties of the development of a hardcore project for mobile platforms on the example of the game “Evolution: the battle for Utopia”. Alexander will tell and show you how game mechanics evolved during the game development process, and will also share professional secrets for optimizing graphics and performance.

Social Casual (Hall 1, October 3)
Arthur Shakalis, head of the gaming unit of the Odnoklassniki social network

Using the example of his native social network, Arthur will show why the casual genre has become so widespread, when this trend has emerged, and what does it do for social game developers today. Arthur will also share a kind of anti-Soviets, that is, he will tell about the characteristic mistakes of developers who can spoil any casual game.

New race in "Allods Online" (Hall 2, October 2)
Evgeny Laschev, art director of the project “Allods Online”
Dmitry Pasechny, Scram-master of the team of characters of the project “Allods Online”

This time there will be two speakers at once. Eugene and Dmitry will share their experiences on a variety of issues. In particular, they will tell about how the unique and easily recognizable game race of pridents was created, and what rake the developers attacked. Also, inquisitive listeners will learn how developers manage to strike a balance between the classic style of Allods Online and modern graphics requirements. Finally, Evgeny and Dmitry will share their experience in the difficult task of attracting new players and maintaining interest among the “veterans”.

In addition, interesting reports from our partners are waiting for you at the CWI, and we also recommend paying attention to them.

Rules of cooperation (Hall 1, October 3)
Eric DeMilt, Producer Skyforge (Obsidian Entertaiment)

Eric will dedicate his speech to changes in the traditional patterns of interaction between game developers. Traditional “work for hire” relationships are outdated and more likely to interfere than contribute to successful game development. Eric will talk about how they restructured their business processes, focusing on flexibility and positive results. The new approach focuses on the joint work of development teams, the purpose of which is to create great games, rather than complying with the planned amount of work and strict observance of deadlines.

Development of technology Warface (Hall 2, October 2)
Stanislav Spivakov, Technical Director, Crytek

Key points - technical challenges: server side, minimum settings for weak computers (balance between quality and performance), features of the CryENGINE engine.

As you can see, we have prepared reports for every taste. See the full schedule on the conference website . Come, listen, watch, ask questions, you can even tricky. Please note that the ticket gives you the right to attend three events at once: KRI, IgroMir and Comic Con Russia - the exhibition that is taking place for the first time in Russia as part of Igro World. We are waiting for you at Crocus Expo !