VKontakte Fandom Fest revealed new program details

On the main stage of the festival, there will be a Q&A session with the Manhwa artist "Beware of that devil!" Blue Canna and a meeting with the actors of the film "Lefty" Yuri Kolokolnikov and Fedor Fedotov. The lecture hall includes an exclusive presentation of the game "Zemsky Sobor" from the Cyberia Nova studio and public talks with leading experts in the gaming industry. The speakers will discuss the MMORPG genre, neural networks in game development, and the prospects for Russian projects at the international level. Tickets for the festival are available on the official website.

Actors Yuri Kolokolnikov and Fedor Fedotov will present the action adventure "Lefty" to the guests. The main actors will show exclusive materials from the film, tell about the shooting and behind the scenes, answer questions from the audience and give autographs. The Mainstream editorial office.Geeks of AST publishing house will hold a meeting with Blue Canna, the artist of the manhwa "Beware of this devil!". She will talk to fans and answer questions from the audience.

VK Video and Stereotactic production will present a documentary series about Russian comics, "Watch: A series about comics in Russia." Artyom Gabrelyanov, founder of Bubble Comics publishing house, Mitya Levin, VK Video Content Director, Dmitry Salov, creative producer of VK Video, Alexandra Burmistrova, executive producer of VK Video, and Maxim Tomash, director of Stereotactic, will talk about the new project.

Cyberia Nova Studio presents a new action adventure game "Zemsky Sobor". In it, players immerse themselves in the behind-the-scenes intrigues of 1613 through the story of Kirsha the Cossack. The discussion "History vs gamedev — when historicism gets in the way of gameplay" will discuss the balance between authenticity and a dynamic game plot. The participants of the public talk are Sergey Russian, creative director of Cyberia Nova Studio, and Alexander Artemov, creative director of Navigator of the Gaming World magazine.

The discussion on the cultural phenomenon of games will discuss literature, where video games are considered as part of modern art. The speakers are Vladimir Obruchev, head of popular science and computer literature at BOMBORA Publishing House, Konstantin Sakhnov, author of the book "I Want to Go to Gamedev!" and Artur Sopelnik, creative director of Igromania. Alexander Egorov, Head of VK Play Media, will moderate the meeting.

The trends shaping the MMORPG genre will be discussed by Gennady Kolshansky, producer of Astrum Entertainment, Alexander Egorov, head of VK Play Media, David Hakobyan, lead project manager of 4Game, Andrey Frolov, project manager of VK Video Live, and Anton Rubendahouse Bobrovnikov, streamer. Anna Kabayeva, CEO of Somber Games, and Anastasia Shurkina, project artist, will analyze nostalgia for horror films and teenage identity through the prism of the visual novel Pink Noise.

Semyon Kudryashov, editor-in-chief of VK Play Media, Alexander Karimov, PR manager of SoftClub, Evgeny Mirkin, editor-in-chief of RuStore, and Evgeny Mirkin, editor-in-chief, will talk about the success of the Chinese Souls-like game Black Myth: Wukong. PlayGround.ru Nikolai Semenko. The speakers will explain why hardcore gamers and connoisseurs of Oriental culture liked the action project. Alexey Naydenov, the creator of The Hungry Town visual novel, will tell you how to integrate artificial intelligence into indie development and correctly distribute tasks between humans and the neural network, while maintaining the author's idea.

The lecture hall will discuss cultural exports using the example of Japan and South Korea and the prospects of Russian projects in the international arena. Alexander Mikheev, CEO of VK Play, Alexander Zhuravlev, an expert on law in the gaming industry, director Mikhail Reichelgauz, Maria Savinykh, creative director of Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio, and Sergey Volkov, Executive Director of 1C Game Studios, will take part in the discussion. Alexey Drokonov, VK Education's educational project manager, will talk about the specifics of game dev training in Russia. The expert will analyze the influence of European and Asian schools on the domestic gaming industry and evaluate the first results of this synthesis.

The VKontakte Fandom Fest will be held on November 22 and 23 in Moscow at the Main Stage.

More news about the festival can be found in the official community of the festival.