Seminars

• Eugene Kharchenko (Intel)
  To fly or to crawl? Intel's compilers and their possibilities to optimize software (Programming)
  
  
• Eugene Kharchenko (Intel)
  To fly or to crawl? Intel's Vtune Perfomance Analyzer 7.1 (Programming)
  
  
• Vassily Basov (Intel)
  Intel's New generation of processors based on Intel XScale: new potential for game developers (Programming)
  
  
• Maxim Perminov (Intel)
  Get some speed. Hyper-Threading Technology explained for games (Programming)
  
  
• Natalya Tatarchuk, Richard Huddy, Guennady Riguer (ATi)
  Two-day seminar covering a wide variety of computer graphics aspects. Secrets of shader and OpenGL and Direct3D graphics optimization, tips and tricks on making effective graphical libraries. GLSL explained, new high-level shader programming language for OpenGL.
  
  
• Sergey Orlovsky (Nival)
  Milestones of the great path (Business organization)
  
  
• Yuri Miroshnikov (1C)
  How to mimic IL-2 success. Practical advices, tips and tricks (Business organization)
  
  
• Alexander Mikhailov (Buka)
  Just a bit more on developer/publisher relationships (Business organization)
  
  
• Andrey "Krank" Kouzmine (K-D LAB)
  Alternative games, or more on some of the deep aspects of game development - 2 (Game Design)
  
  
• Vlad Suglobov (G5 Software)
  Managing a gaming studio: fivefold growth in two years (Business Organization)
  
  
• Leonid Cherny (Nival)
  Testing process of the computer game (QA)
  
  
• Elena Sevostyanova (Nival)
  Planning, organization and obstacles for the lead artist (Art)
  
  
• Sergey Kondratovitch (X-Bow Software)
  Design of the imaginary industrial objects (Art)
  
  
• Sergey Tsyptsyn (LifeMode Interactive)
  Effective pipeline in facial animation (Art)
  
  
• Alexey Serkov (Nival)
  "I see little people!" Animation and visualization of the small-scale objects on the game scene (Art)
  
  
• Alexander Mishulin (Nival)
  The survey of computer and desktop RPG systems (Game Design)
  
  
• Pavel Epishin (Nival)
  Unavoidable changes to design on production stage, how do you live with it? (Game design)
  
  
• Marta Sareta (Sky Fallen)
  Game Design for Game Artists (Game Design)
  
  
• Ilya Stremovsky (Nival)
  Formal gameplay notation (Game Design)
  
  
• Dmitry Ivashkin (Apeiron)
  Ways of organizing in-game time (Game Design)
  
  
• Alexander Kovalev (Buka)
  Peculiar features of modern real-time strategies (Game design)
  
  
• Ivan Bannikov (Nikita)
  Creating a solid world for MMORPG (Game Design)
  
  
• Menshikov Sergey (Action Forms)
  Sound Design: planning sound production and creating unique sound effects (Audio)
  
  
• Viktor Krasnokutsky (Realore Studios)
  Tips on creating sound for small shareware games (Audio)
  
  
• Oleg Kostin (Nikita)
  Evolution of the game making process or Parkinson effect in action (Business organization)
  
  
• Alexander Roshin (Nival)
  Game developing and Russia's legislation (Business organization)
  
  
• Nikolay Baryshnikov (1C)
  Game promotion as the matter of game maker's own business (Business organization)
  
  
• Stefan Layer (ATARI)
  
  
• Luca Scaini (The Gang)
  Aspects of work in international firms investing in Russia (Business organization)
  
  
• Fabrice Cambounet (Ubi Soft)
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• Dean Trotman (Codemasters)
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• Alexey Maliy (Nikita)
  Publisher and Developer inter-relations (Business organization)
  
  
• Ivan Bunakov (Buka)
  Term of development and quality of the product: is there a golden mean? (Business organization)
  
  
• Dmitry "Goblin" Puchkov
  Dialogues for movies and games
  
  
• Alexander Lyskovsky (Alawar Entertainment)
  Internet-distribution for various platforms (Sales)
  
  
• Mikhail Melnikov (Nival)
  Universal editor for several projects (Programming)
  
  
• Alexander Veselov (Nival)
  User interface for several projects (Programming)
  
  
• Andrey Plakhov (Nival)
  Developing AI for strategy games (Programming)
  
  
• Mikhail Pizik (X-bow software)
  Management of programming division with version control system CVS (Programming)
  
  
• Daryl Cooper (SCEE)
  SCEE - Programming the PS2 (Programming)
  
  
• George Bain (SCEE)
  SCEE - Introduction to PSP (Programming)
  
  
• Timofey Bokarev (PlayMobile)
  Mobile games: developing, sales, marketing (Management - Marketing)
  
  
• Vitaliy Berov (Nival)
  Pathfinding in Blitzkrieg. Static and dynamic pathfinding, collisions detection (Programming)
  
  
• Rev Lebaredian (NVIDIA)
  The NVIDIA Developer Tool Suite
  
  
• John Spitzer (NVIDIA)
  Performance Optimisation - Part 1
  
  
• Ashutosh Rege (NVIDIA)
  Performance Optimisation - Part 2
  
  
• Andrea Dorta (Creative Labs)
  EAX 4.0: A huge step closer to reality (Programming)
  
  
• Yuri Kriachko (1C)
  Water modeling with pixel shaders 2.0 (Programming)
  
  
• Alexey Tugaenko (Action Forms)
  Realtime geometry and environment destruction (Programming)
  
  
• Ruslan Shelekhov (Buka)
  Logical systems in developing AI. Problems and answers (Programming - AI)
  
  
• Maxim Stroev (Alawar Entertainment)
  Technologies of developing multi-platform game engine (Programming - Game Engine)
  
  
• Nikolay Garkavets (Dynamic Systems)
  Skeletal animation optimization (Programming - Game Engine)
  
  
• Viacheslav Tsisarzh, Roman Marusik (Dynamic Systems)
  New abnormal quaternions in dynamic simulators (Programming - Game Engine)
  
  
• Andrey Tiagunov (Nikita)
  Project management: XP vs real life (Project Management)
  
  
• Alexey Isaev (Nival)
  Can the manager who finished a project successfully pass PMI or IPMA exams? (Project management)
  
  
• Andrey Grishenko (1ó)
  Game or product? Methods of creation (Project Management)
  
  
• Nikolay Sitnikov (G5 Software)
  Documentation of the game development process (Project Management)
  
  
• Sergey Gerasev (1C)
  External producing or how the tail wags a dog (Project Management)
  
  
• Dmitry Zakharov (Nival)
  Fighting the creeping featurism. Silent Storm post-mortem (Project Management)
  
  
• Sergey Titarenko (Lesta studio)
  Problems of organization in the field of graphics outsourcing (Project Management)
  
  
• Nikolay Safronov (Buka)
  Testing the game. Beta-testing. Relations between developers and quality assurance department (Project Management)
  
  
• Selyanov Sergey (STV film company)
  Choosing protagonist and an actor for the leading part in the movie
  
  
• Oskar Guilbert (Criterion)
  RenderWare - the price of a multi-platform game developed without a problem (Middleware)
  
  
• Alexey Medvedev (Revolt Games)
  Homeplanet Postmortem (Postmortem)
  
  
• Alla Pashutina (Buka)
  Localizing Russian games for West (Localization)
  
  
• Ilya Molochnikov, Stanislav Skorb, Ivan Bunakov (Targem)
  Battle Mages postmortem (Postmortem)
  
  
• Ivan Moroz, Malik Khatazhaev, Oleg Fedorov (Lesta studio)
  Entente postmortem (Postmortem)
  
  
• Rodion Chikin (Pilot)
  A small key and a chest of treasures. How to open? (Creating mobile games with J2ME)