About this site

Hello there, Viktor here. This website is about games, technology, and everything, which represents my relatively wide sphere of interests. And exactly my interest is what defines the content to appear here. So let's have a few words about me.

I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in the year of long-awaited Independence. In more than 30 years of my life there I got my masters in Applied Mathematics and PhD in Informational Technologies. While working on algorithms for processing digital images I took a job in video game development, purely by chance, to work on browser games. Science didn't quite hook me back in the day, so my first job defined my future specialization, peaking in Solution Architecture for a browser game development engine. I tried to dive into indie-game development quite a few times - alone and with accomplices, but it never worked out leaving me with just a burn-out.

In the meantime, I never lost my interest in games in general. Times have changed in the industry though, from the narrow niche for geeks to mainstream media. This is not bad as is, but it has changed how, by whom, and why games are being developed. I am still playing in AAA games, but my focus has shifted greatly toward indie games. Games, created by individuals, or groups, not directly subordinated to a bigger company, that develop new authentic games, ready to take risks and follow their passions, rather than perfecting graphs in their financial reports.

Still, I am an engineer-mathematician by education and programmer by trade to start with.

So join me, it should be fun! I am always happy to participate in discussions on interesting topics. Don't be shy to share with me your thoughts and impressions even if you disagree with me.