![]() "I think it's somehow based deep in a tradition of playing chess, really gamey and strategic games. ![]() The countries are an ocean apart but in reality the real differences in Russia's development philosophy stem from a long tradition of chess-playing, he says. ![]() "I think it's somehow based deep in a tradition of playing chess" So we flew from Moscow to Berlin, then Moscow to New York, then New York to Los Angeles. "We missed the first day of press because our flight was canceled. "We had a lot of trouble getting here to E3," says Tortsov. The differences aren't just geographical, although even that is a relevant topic. "For some reason this genre, this real-time strategy genre is a really big thing in Eastern Europe," he says. The Russian independent games studio shares development connections with popular role-playing game Mount&Blade, whose expansion Mount&Blade: With Fire & Sword was published by Snowball Studios, the same publisher behind Snowbird's upcoming real-time strategy title Eador: Masters of the Broken World. Tortsov works for Snowbird Studios, a development team that isn't going to ring any bells outside of independent development circles across Russia but you'll recognize the lineage. Snowbird Game Studios introduces its upcoming real-time strategy role-playing game Eador: Masters of the Broken World.ĭeveloper Vladimir Tortsov struggles to explain what makes game development in Eastern Europe different from development in the West. ![]()
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