RTU MIREA Hosts Moscow International Video Games Week

From November 27 to 28, RTU MIREA served as one of the venues for Moscow’s International Video Games Week. This large-scale event, organized by the Moscow Government and the Creative Industries Agency, gathered leading developers, technology companies, and the gaming community at its venues to vividly demonstrate the diversity and dynamics of the gaming ecosystem.

The main venue of the event was the Skolkovo Center, where the primary stages were located. Lectures and exhibitions also took place at the main competence centers: RTU MIREA, the Higher School of Economics, the IT Hub, Moskino, and the Institute of Business and Design.

The events at the RTU MIREA venue were organized by the Department of Gaming Industry of the Institute of Information Technologies. The participants were offered exclusive lectures, hands-on workshops, an exhibition of indie game playtests, board game zones, and a cosplay contest.

The lecture program covered the industry’s most topical issues. On November 27, speakers talked about managing creative teams and shared experiences of transitioning from illustration to gamedev. Gennady Baskin (Ingvik Studios, GameBox) gave a lecture titled “Assembling, Managing, and Motivating Creative Teams,” while Artyom Zhukov (head of the ManaMake comics studio) revealed the secrets of building a game’s narrative and visual style in his presentation “From Webcomics to Games.”

On November 28, the focus was on technologies and game design. Associate Professor Marianna Alpatova (RTU MIREA’s Department of Gaming Industry) delivered a lecture “Don’t Start with the Headset: Thoughtful AR/VR and Gamification Approaches,” explaining ways to make cutting-edge technologies solve specific tasks rather than serve only as a trendy embellishment. The business program concluded with a presentation by the creators of a cult racing game: game designers Ivan Abukhovsky and Ilya Molotovshchikov (CarX Technologies) revealed the internal structure and design principles of the CarX Drift Racing 3 project.

The Moscow International Video Games Week events drew strong interest from the students exploring creative industries and video game development.