DRON_PROGS

Zillion Whales

Company was founded at the beginning of 2014 year by former i-Free company's game publishing branch. After becoming an independent company we focused on development of it's own titles and now is mostly famous by the game Mushroom Wars 2. Later we signed strategic partnership with Russian IT giant Mail.Ru Group to work on our new upcoming games with much more resources availabel. In September 2022 company was acquired by Cyprus publisher Azur Games.

• Date: 2014 - ...
• My role: CEO and Partner

DeeProSoft

In 2007 while graduating university with like-minded friends I founded a company named DeeProSoft.
One of the first big projects was FutureGIS a 3D geographic information system of our city Yekaterinburg developed for the city government.
Later company started working on B2B solutions, web and mobile development. DeeProSoft positioning itself as an innovator on the local market, being the first who began to implement augmented reality, no-touch control methods, realtime 3D content visualizations.
DeeProSoft made a lot of exciting projects including some for major local brands.
I was able to develop company from 3 to more than 20 people, build internal processes and made them stable and independent. In 2012 I left company because of relocation to Saint Petersburg, willing to focus only on game development.
At the end of 2013 year there was a conflict between new heads of the company that led it to separation into several independent parts. At this point I finally decided to quit company.

• Date: 2007 - 2013
• My role: Founder and CTO

Rapid Bricks

At the beginning of 2013 year dreaming of making a business from my gamedev passion I founded mobile game development studio startup. Company started successfully outsourcing game development for number of american clients. Later company started work on it's own projects and was assimilated by Zillion Whales publisher in 2014.

• Date: 2013 - 2014
• My role: Founder and CTO

Mushroom Wars 2

• Date: 2015 - ...
• My role: Producer

Mushroom Wars: Space!

"Mushroom Wars: Space!", a unique real-time strategy game where meticulous tactics meets furious action, and armies of tiny creatures clash in epically massive real-time PvP and PvE battles. This game is an advanced F2P version of the original "Mushroom Wars" title from Play Station 3. I was succesfully producing this game for more then two years from it's initiation and beyond release.

• Date: 2014 - 2015
• My role: Producer

Mushroom Wars

Mushroom Wars is a dynamic real-time strategy game, where smart strategy meets furious action in epic PvP and PvE battles. Game is internationally acclaimed RTS, originally published on PlayStation 3 (becoming one of IGN’s Top 25 PlayStation Network Games). Mushroom Wars was first playable RTS on gamepad. I was producing game port for Steam.

• Date: 2016
• My role: Producer

DGLE

This is my pet project which I dedicate almost all my free time. This project is my vision of perfect engine for 2D and 3D games and applications. The goal of the project is to provide developers with flexible and extendable cross platform easy-to-learn professional technology, capable of building any games, real-time visualizations, scientific applications etc.
Since I have started working on the engine in 2005 year, project was totally rewritten several times. Several enthusiast are working with me on this project and I will be glad anyone who will help too.
Almost every my project is using this engine and there is number of 3rd party projects which are successfully powered by my technology too. DGLE is open source and absolutely free for any type of usage.

• Date: 2005 - 2017 (frozen)
• My role: Evangelist and Developer

Future GIS

This is one of the projects developed while working in DeeProSoft. This project is platform for creation of 3D geographic information systems of cities. Created technology allows rendering realistic high precision 3D city map in real-time. Every object on the map consists of 3D model and semantic data from the database. Map could be easily integrated into website using plugin to the browser.
Project was developed by request of Yekaterinburg city government and was integrated into city infrastructure. There also was version of the product for citizens, distributed free of charge through internet and on CD.
Because of the project specifics it was developed from scratch and powered by self-developed engine DGLE and number of "know-how" solutions.
Still there is no any analogs of this project in Russia.

• Date: 2009 - 2012
• My role: Lead programmer

Video Lectures

Video course about creating cross-platform real-time applications based on self-developed engine from scratch.
We (I also invited my friends from other companies) started step-by-step creation of engine and small game using it. Initially we planned only to teach DeeProSoft employees but later decided to upload material on YouTube because there is lack of such information (at least in Russian). In the course we were talking not only about programming but about management and gamedesign as well.
There were more than 20 lectures recorded but this project was frozen because of my relocation to another city. I received a lot of positive feedback and lectures were even mentioned as further to study material in one book.

• Date: 2012
• My role: Ideologue and Lecturer

Max Madness

Game inspired by Mad Max universe is in development now for consoles and PC. Game participated in Gaminator 20 where was placed 4th in global rating.

• Date: 07.2018 - ...
• My role: Creator

The Flying Viking

Winner of 108th Independent Games Developers Contest
Indie game developed together with Rapid Bricks. Simple but addictive hardcore gameplay inspired by "Flappy Bird. Liters of blood a bit of madness and explicit trash, I'm loving it!
Accept your last fight on your way to Valhalla against crowds of demons with your only friend shotgun. What could be more exciting?

• Date: 04/2014
• My role: Creator

Club №69

Winner of 69th Independent Games Developers Contest
Was published on DVD coming along with printed game magazine "Igromania" (8/2011)
Old school style FPS game parody on "Duke Nukem 3D" and "Wolfenstein 3D". Game was inspired by disappointment of recently released "Duke Nukem Forever", when I was thinking how could "Duke Nukem 3D" look like if it was developed by "id Software" in 1992?

• Date: 06/2011
• My role: Developer

TetRoX

Winner of 68th Independent Games Developers Contest
Everyone knows what is Tetris, right? Usually it is about color blocks falling down on the field. But what if imagine that these blocks are parts of giant robot, they are falling on the city from the sky like rain, smashing citizens? Ok, it's my plan!

• Date: 04/2011
• My role: Developer

VoPiTe

Winner of 72nd Independent Games Developers Contest
Game in my favorite shoot'em up genre about love with stylish cartoon graphics in the computer world of kid's imagination.
Game is written on C++, doesn't use any engines and all graphic is pure procedural. I developed this game to study new unfamiliar platforms.

• Date: 12/2011
• My role: Developer

ЫжЫк и Гриб04кИ

Best indie game of 2008 award by MirGames
Winner of 42nd Independent Games Developers Contest
This is art-house game-trip in arcanoid genre developed only in 2 evenings. All graphics in this game is made of plasticine.
Help small hedgehog (from one well known Russian cartoon) to collect "magic" mushrooms and watch…

• Date: 12/2008
• My role: Developer

BloodTV 2256

Winner of 22nd Independent Games Developers Contest
This game is some kind of unfinished sequel to Out Of This World. Game was planned to be a multiplayer shooter but currently you can only play with bots on the gladiator arenas of the distant future. There are 6 different weapons and 3 game modes.
It's interesting that game size is only 2Mb because of the contest terms in which it participated.

• Date: 03/2007
• My role: Developer

Out Of This World

Later in 2005 this game was published.
I think every game developer should have game of his dream. I had such game too and I was even able to implement it in some form. I started working on it in school in 2003 year. I was planning to create Action/RPG which mixes two my favorite games at that time "Diablo 2" and "Crimsonland". Unexpectedly for me game was rather fun and got positive feedback and over 15 000 downloads on popular at that time resource downloads.ru. First month game was even in the top three most popular applications on the portal. Game has three different modes, short storyline, RPG system and items generator.

• Date: 09/2004
• My role: Developer

Alienator

Finalist of 58th Independent Games Developers Contest
Game with experimental indirect control gameplay. You are playing as aliens who want to assimilate all human kind but you have the only one little UFO and few almost harmless minions to control.

• Date: 08/2010
• My role: Developer

Ride The Bit

This is not the game but only gameplay prototype made in one night. You can select your favorite MP3 tracks and race the generated tube with the music.

• Date: 07/2010
• My role: Developer

No Chance

Finalist of 116th Independent Games Developers Contest
A small complete adventure of self identity in procedurally generated virtual world, on the one hand. And shooter with roguelike elements, inspired by «5734L3R» and «The Matrix» - on the other hand.

• Date: 12/2014
• My role: Developer

Lord of the Boards

Meditative game about snowboarding, white snow and high mountains.
Unfortunately this is only prototype that I didn't have a chance to finish.

• Date: 03/2012
• My role: Developer

Invaders Must Die

Art-house game parody on old black and white B-Movies about alien invasion. Game features me as main hero. Physics and skeleton animation were implemented as well as number of bugs to mark the intention of the author.

• Date: 06/2009
• My role: Developer