Acquiring, retaining and monetizing players
Workshop
My articles, breakdowns and video lectures on game development.
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Original games and client projects as a business
How brands reach their audiences through games
How independent games find a place in museums
From a racing-game idea to its first players
Roblox in the context of metaverses
A studio’s experience entering the online-event market
Expectations and realities of independent development
Yaroslav Kravtsov as a guest of Narratorika
Developing game projects with the Unity engine
Joel Burgess’s approach to iteration and level quality
Two-button controls and the move from prototype to game
Petr Sikachev’s ideas on leader control and engagement
Hidden techniques that change how a game feels
Why a medium does not determine artistic value
First steps with the Unity game engine
How players notice, understand and remember spaces
Stories for a shared adventure in VR
Helping a team finish a playable game in time
From first projects to a career and a studio
Games and leisure in an increasingly automated world
How technology and players reshaped the industry
How payment models reshape game design
Digital doubles, with Natalia Alfutova
Game systems built around an open economy
Designing playable spaces across different genres
Movement, scale and playtesting a VR prototype
Preparing a booth, a demo and conversations with players
Presenting your game at a conference
Helping a small team take a project to release
How story supports engagement and game sales
From plans and prototypes to readable play spaces
Deadlines, feedback and finding your team
A clear foundation for a game, not tangled diagrams
Story, navigation and lessons from a 48-hour game
Russian-language indie projects sold as paid games
Turning player feedback into useful decisions
Scale, camera, composition and working with artists
Overcoming the fear of speaking English
Flight, upgrades and the limits of a two-day project
Teaching mechanics through the experience of play
A hypothesis about expectations and actual outcomes
How Fill the Bar grew from 2D into a 3D world
Story in games: early ideas and audience discussion
Bringing world, play and story into a coherent whole
Connecting story, world and player actions
Progression and changing conditions prevent monotony
Habits that get in the way of professional growth
A personal reading of the story and ending; spoilers
Portfolio, test assignment and talking to the team
A fan-made widescreen adaptation of Pathologic
Landmarks and connections on the player’s mental map
How players perceive price, risk, reward and choice
From a map of locations to a playable solo level
Opportunities for games to work with other fields