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Colabee Studios
CELEBRATING DIVERSITY THROUGH VIDEOGAMES
For more information, please contact:
Dima Veryovka - [email protected] Vesce - [email protected]
or follow our adventure at::www.colabeestudios.com orfacebook.com/colabees
Dima VeryovkaCo-Founder/Creative Director
Design and Visual Direction
Concept Art
Game production / Management
OUR STORYColabee 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
To find meaning in our work
Can Video Game be Entertaining...
Improve and enrich people’s lives?
Help us to understand who we are ?
Promote empathy, tolerance?
Help elevate one’s self esteem?
Build a successful business
Never Alone - Official Launch Trailer(Click to Play)
Community Events
INCLUSIVITY & COLLABORATIONIS 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:
Video games have the power to
shape our world.
Games settings
Forging new PartnershipsWe 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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Eastern EuropeanCulture Expedition
Fall, 2015
Colabee Studios
A FIRST PERSON ADVENTUREFROM THE DIRECTORS OF NEVER ALONE
Surprising Advantages
Massive promotional support on a national and international scale
TCH News (1+1 Media) вікна (CTB)
TV Channel UkraineChannel 24 News
Outpouring of volunteer support
Opens doors to unexpected places
• Funding• Inclusive Development• Achieving Authentic Representations• Galvanizing Grassroots Support• Language / Cultural Barriers• Long distance development• Contrasting Timescales
Practical Challenges
Why worth making ?
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
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Questions?colabees.com
facebook.com/colabees