Delivered at Casual Connect USA 2016. Dima Veryovka and Sean Vesce will give their perspective of games-based cultural storytelling. They developed Never Alone, a celebrated puzzle platformer designed to celebrate the traditions and mythology of the Inupiaq community of Northern Alaska. They will share their experiences in developing games inspired by world culture, and a sneak peak of their upcoming project, The Forest Song.

1. Colabee Studios
CELEBRATING DIVERSITY
THROUGH VIDEOGAMES
For more information, please contact:
Dima Veryovka - dima@colabees.com
Sean Vesce - sean@colabees.com
or follow our adventure at::
www.colabeestudios.com or
facebook.com/colabees

2. Dima Veryovka
Co-Founder/Creative Director
Design and Visual Direction
Concept Art
Game production / Management

3. OURSTORY
Colabee Studios is an international collective of creatives, technologists and storytellers.
We develop hand crafted video games that celebrate our world's diverse cultures.
Mech Warrior Series Tomb Raider
Series
SOCOM Series Never Alone

4. To find meaning in our work

5. Can Video Game be Entertaining...

7. Improve and enrich people’s lives?

8. Help us to understand who we are ?

9. Promote empathy, tolerance?

10. Help elevate one’s self esteem?

11. Build a successful business

13. Never Alone - Official Launch Trailer
(Click to Play)

14. Community Events

15. INCLUSIVITY & COLLABORATION
IS AT THE HEART OF WHAT WE DO
We created Never Alone together with over 40 Alaska Native elders, storytellers & artists.
Voices of our Alaska Native Partners:

17. Video games have the power to
shape our world.

19. Games settings

21. Forging new
Partnerships
We have established deep partnerships
with the Taras Shevchenko National
University of Kyiv, artists like
DakhaBrakha and Ukrainian culture
bearers throughout the world.
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22. Eastern European
Culture Expedition
Fall, 2015

24. Colabee Studios
A FIRST PERSON ADVENTURE
FROM THE DIRECTORS OF NEVER ALONE

28. Surprising Advantages

29. Massive promotional support
on a national and international scale
TCH News (1+1 Media) вікна (CTB)
TV Channel UkraineChannel 24 News

30. Outpouring of volunteer support

31. Opens doors to unexpected places

32. • Funding
• Inclusive Development
• Achieving Authentic Representations
• Galvanizing Grassroots Support
• Language / Cultural Barriers
• Long distance development
• Contrasting Timescales
Practical Challenges

33. Why worth making ?

34. New Market for World Games
Aurion: Legacy of Kori-Odan
(Kiro’o Games)
Song of the Deep
(Insomniac Games)
1979 Revolution: Black Friday
(iNK Studios)
Saudi Girls Revolution
(NA3M Games)
Badiya: Explores Arabic culture
Semaphore studio
…….

35. Questions?
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facebook.com/colabees