NOCH (ONLINE CO-OP)
Status: released
Trailer | Steam | Website
Cooperative surrealistic horror/adventure about the girl, who destroyed the whole world
Role: game director, lead game designer, lead scriptwriter
Yan Shevchenko, 36 years old
Game designer, scriptwriter, game developer, IT expert
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"The game is a product of art and high technologies. I dedicated my life to this industry. If you decide to create a game, I'm the one who you need!"
Skills and Expertise
Game directing, producing
lead game design, concept creation, project direction
Game Design
project design
Project management
monitoring of assigned tasks and work with the team
Programming
client, server, script logic
Design
2D graphics, animation, effects
3D modeling
low poly 3D, scan, animation
Sound Engineering
sound and music schemes development
Photo
Video
AA Projects
TRIGON: SPACE STORY (ONLINE CO-OP)
Status: released
Trailer 2 | Trailer 1 | Steam | Website
Cooperative tactical space rogue-lite game with strong battle system, quests and crew management!
Role: producer, lead game designer
EPICENTRUM (ONLINE)
Status: in development
Teaser | Steam | Website
Turn-based tactical online strategy game with extended services for streamers
Role: game director, lead game designer
PROTOCOL PC+VR, XBOX, PS
Status: released
PC gameplay | VR gameplay | Steam | Website
Cyberpunk, black humor, 3D first person adventure
Role: game director, lead game designer
Best VR Game (DevGAMM 2017) nominee
LOCO PARENTIS PC+VR (CO-OP), XBOX, PS, SWITCH
Status: released
Gameplay Trailer | Steam | Website
Cooperative horror, first-person 3D room escape
Role: game director, lead game designer
Best VR Game (White Nights 2018) nominee
STARTUP VALLEY ADVENTURE PC
Status: released
Trailer | Teaser | Steam | Website
Interactive fiction, black humor, 3D first-person adventure, RPG in Silicon Valley World
Role: game director, lead game designer
Portfolio
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EPICENTRUM
Role: game director, lead game designer
Turn-based tactical online strategy game with extended services for streamers
TRIGON: SPACE STORY
Role: producer, lead game designer
Cooperative tactical space rogue-lite game with strong battle system, quests and crew management!
LOCO PARENTIS
Role: game director, lead game designer
Cooperative horror, first-person 3D room escape
STARTUP VALLEY ADVENTURE
Role: game director, lead game designer
Interactive fiction, dark humor, 3D first-person adventure, RPG in Silicon Valley World
FINCH VR MOBILE MULTIPLAYER
Role: game director, game designer
Multiplayer tech-demo videos for mobile VR, for demonstration at CES2017
FANTASY VR (ONLINE CO-OP)
Role: game director
For VR quest room. Oculus Rift + Leap Motion, Online Co-Op
THRILLER VR (ONLINE CO-OP)
Role: game director
For VR quest room. Oculus Rift + Leap Motion, Online Co-Op
CYBERPUNK PROJECT SYSTEM
Role: programmer of the engine, programmer of logic, game designer, 2D artist, 3D artist, sound producer/composer
Cyberpunk is a first-person game, created in the form of an episodic series in 2004
BONFIRE STORIES 2: HEARTLESS
Role: Game designer / scriptwriter
Collector’s Edition
Big Fish Games Top 1
FEAR FOR SALE: THE HOUSE ON BLACK RIVER
Role: Lead game designer of the golden hour
Collector’s Edition
Big Fish Games Top 1
BONFIRE STORIES: THE FACELESS GRAVEDIGGER
Role: Game designer / scriptwriter
Collector’s Edition
Big Fish Games Top 1
PUNISHED TALENTS: STOLEN AWARDS
Роль: Reprocessing of game process
Collector’s Edition
Big Fish Games Top 10
MYSTERY CASE FILES: FATE’S CARNIVAL
Role: Mini-games Designer
Collector’s Edition
Big Fish Games Top 1
FOUND: A HIDDEN OBJECT ADVENTURE
Role: Quest designer
Free 2 Play
Big Fish Games Top 10
SURFACE: THE PANTHEON
Role: Project manager, game designer, scriptwriter, mini-games designer, cutscenes director
Collector’s Edition
Big Fish Games Top 1
MYSTERY TRACKERS: FOUR ACES
Role: Writer
Collector’s Edition
Big Fish Games Top 1
SURFACE: THE SOARING CITY
Role: Project manager, game designer, scriptwriter, mini-games designer, live video director
Collector’s Edititon
Big Fish Games Top 1
SURFACE: THE NOISE SHE COULDN’T MAKE
Роль: Project manager, game designer, scriptwriter, mini-games designer, live video director
Collector’s Edition
Big Fish Games Top 1
SURFACE: MYSTERY OF ANOTHER WORLD
Роль: Project manager, game designer, scriptwriter, mini-games designer,live video director
Collector’s Edition
Big Fish Games Top 1
LOST IN THE CITY: POST SCRIPTUM
Role: Project manager, game designer, scriptwriter, mini-games designer, programmer, 2D artist, sound producer, composer
Big Fish Games Top 11
ALICE MUST LIVE!
Role: Project manager, game designer, scriptwriter, mini-games designer, programmer, 2D artist, sound producer, composer
Unfinished (prototype stage)
LOST IN THE CITY
Role: Project manager, game designer, scriptwriter, mini-games designer, programmer, 2D artist, sound producer, composer
Big Fish Games Top 2
CAT STORIES: ROBINSONADE
Role: game director
Free 2 Play match-3 adventure game about kitties and love
FOUND: A HIDDEN OBJECT ADVENTURE
Role: quest designer
Free 2 Play
Big Fish Games Top 10
CLASH OF SPACE HAWKS
Role: game director
Free 2 Play, online turn-based strategy: Steam, iOS, Android
FINCH VR MOBILE MULTIPLAYER
Role: game director, game designer
Multiplayer tech-demo videos for mobile VR were demonstrated at CES2017
GAME ENTREPRENEURSHIP FACTORY
Role: project manager, game designer
Official game of the Entrepreneurship Factory
Real-time Chess
Role: game director
Classic chess gameplay with innovative mechanics. Online PvP game.
FRIENDS MINIGAMES
Role: game director
Browser mini-games in honor of the new voice over release of «Friends» series
Career
2017 - ... years. CEO and founder of Fair Games Studio
Founded and led the independent games studio Fair Games. The main goal is development of 3D projects for PC, Steam, VR and for consoles. Just like adults :)
2015 - ... years. CEO and founder of GD Forge
Founded and led GD Forge game development studio. Eventually, projects were also extended to the field of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR)
2013 - 2014 Elephant Games (Kazan)
Led the Kazan branch of Elephant Games. Worked as a regional director, game designer, scriptwriter and project manager.
2010 - 2013 Elephant Games (head office, Yoshkar-Ola)
Led the project group at the head office of Elephant Games in Yoshkar-Ola. Performed duties as a game designer, scriptwriter, project manager and by necessity a programmer.
2007 - 2009 Elephant Games (Cheboksary)
After the presentation of the «System» project to the corporate, Elephant Games branch was opened in Cheboksary. I served as a regional director, game designer, scriptwriter, project manager and by necessity a programmer, designer and sound engineer.
2004 - 2007 In-house development 3D Cyberpunk Project “System”
Developed on Blitz3D (DirectX 7.0 Wrapper): 3D scene collector, effects editor, my own scripting language for writing logic with documentation, 6 game levels (from concept to sound/music).
The year 2002. First recognition from “Strana Igr” (Country of Games) magazine
When I was 16 my flash-game was mentioned in the magazine “Strana Igr” (Country of games) №116 (2002):
«A few words about the author. Yan «Trion» Shevchenko is only 16 years old, he’s been working with Macromedia Flash for 5 months, and with the computer — for 5 years. He started with QuickBasic on school PC-286, now he’s busy with web-design, Flash and JavaScript programming. «I think we’ll hear more about Trion in the future»