Celebrating Diversity through Games: Practical Lessons from the Front Lines of Games-Based Cultural Storytelling | Dima Veryovka, Sean Vesce

Colabee Studios

CELEBRATING DIVERSITY THROUGH VIDEOGAMES

For more information, please contact:

Dima Veryovka - [email protected] Vesce - [email protected]

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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)

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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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