Game Design Meetup
This Year’s First GameNode Event
On January 31st, Hyundai MotorStudio welcomed the second GameNode meetup. The event was attended by over 130 people. This time, the meetup was themed around game design — the speakers shared their experience in creating games for various platforms, having unveiled the key aspects of this process.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — a Story Behind the Game
Creative Director at Owlcat Games Alexander Mishulin delivered a lecture titled Kingmaker — a Story Behind the Game. He dwelt on how this large-scale isometric RPG was created, on the various stages that the project passed through and the specifics of developing games in this genre.
Social Games — Game Design for Housewives
The lecture given by Kirill Grabovsky, Lead Game Designer at Crazy Panda, was concentrated on the audience of social networks, LTV, monetization and future prospects of social games in the mobile world.
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Good Game Design in Mobile Games
The specifics of designing effective game mechanics capable of engaging users and yielding profits to developers, were the key takeaways from the report Good Game Design in Mobile Games delivered by Lead Project Designer at G5 Entertainment Andrey Popov.
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Creating Meta Gameplay Driven by Open Economy
The series of lectures culminated in a joint report by Yaroslav Kravtsov and Alexander Zelenshikov — Creating Meta Gameplay Driven by Open Economy. Expload’s Creative Director and CPO shared their perspective on building open-economy games, bolstered by examples of new gaming interaction, where users themselves would be responsible for setting goals and providing rewards.
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The meetup went beyond the presentation of insightful reports — our guests were also presented with gifts from GameNode’s media partners:
- The participants were granted a 5% fee discount on the two upcoming courses at the Higher School of Business Informatics under National Research University Higher School of Economics.
- Crazy Panda presented gifts for the best questions addressed to the speaker.
- Certificates for 2, 4 and 8 free individual English lessons were raffled off among the guests who provided their business cards.
Traditionally, we would like to say huge thanks to all of the participants — speakers, guests, media partners and our team! :)
We will announce the next event shortly. Meanwhile, you can check out the photos from the meetup — just visit GameNode’s pages on Facebook and Vkontakte.
