First of all, let’s try to define what is a Software Architect. It’s an important part because it has so much different definitions and role descriptions over the industry that it’s not that easy to navigate. If to check on Wikipedia, you will read as follow: A software architect is…

It’s been more than a year since the time I went remote. At first, it was just a temporary solution for the lockdown period and no one actually believed it will last, everyone I knew was mostly expecting things to get back soon. And so did I. After a long…

Lately, fighting with distractions and balancing on the edge of procrastination and being productive, I dive into thinking what is a distraction? At first, it sounds like a silly question, everybody kind of understand what is it. But if to think further, distraction is something that puts away your attention…

Overview Dead Cells is a roguelike action platformer game with a lot of challenges in the atmosphere of mystery with a few revelations. It’s often used to say roguelike — like if it’s obvious, but what is roguelike exactly? So in short it’s a role-playing game about crawling in dungeons through…

Some time ago I participated in a game jam with my indie team, and I want to share a few thoughts about jams and how it played for us. To start with, let’s say a few words about what is that Game Jam thing. Game Jam is an event where…

Recently, or to be precise — today, I finished the storyline of a game called Neversong — a psychological adventure game developed by indie game developer Atmos Games together with Serenity Forge. …

Lately, I’ve been thinking what does a good company to work in looks like? I guess that this might be different for everybody, because everyone has their priorities and preferences. But I want to define this, at least for myself and maybe you will agree with me on some points. …

Last year I spoke at the international game development conference called Games Gathering`19 in Kyiv about how to build modular architecture for games that scales and will probably repeat that experience this year at their next event in Odesa. This was the biggest crowd I talked to and I was…

I play mobile games for many years already and I tried a lot of them. I am checking the App Store for new games regularly and have some sort of a habit to install a bunch of different games that catch my attention to play a few rounds and usually…