WGDC Competition: Latest Recommendations and Jury
After only three weeks, on October 15, the second stage of the WGDC contest will end. Today we will talk about the presentation of presentations and finished projects, as well as reveal the composition of the jury.
How to draw up and submit work
It may seem that the development phase is still far away, but now is the time to tidy up your presentations and videos and add “special effects” to them.
According to the rules, ideas should be presented in the format of pdf-presentations or videos that are in the public domain. They need to describe the essence of the project, its target audience and, in fact, the value of the project for Central Asia.
Those involved in the development need to place a link to a working finished project in the presentation itself, or in the description for the video. The order of submission of various projects is as follows. It is necessary to pay special attention to it, this is a kind of memo for developers:
1. Mododels must go through a review and put the finished mod on the resource www.res-mods.runo later than October 15th. Due to the fact that just yesterday Update 9.3 for World of Tanks was released, do not forget to indicate in the presentation which version of the game the mod is made for. If he will work in 9.3 too - excellent, but not necessarily for participation or for victory.
2. Mobile application developers need to upload them to the application store of that (or those) platforms for which / for which the application is made. If everything is ready, do it right now. For example, an AppStore application review can take from several days to a couple of weeks, and a link to it in a video or presentation will be needed already on October 15.
3. With web resources, everything is simple: a presentation or description of the video must contain a link to a working resource.
4. For a desktop application, you must also provide a link to a resource where you can download it.
All works will be tested for viruses and moderation for compliance with the rules of the competition after October 15. For projects that were finalized during the competition, please indicate in the presentation what exactly was finalized.
A little tip. If you feel that you have created a really good product, do not be too lazy to bring the presentation in an accessible and readable form. You can already look at the presentations of other participants and pull your own up to their level (or even higher). It is possible that you will present your project at the final event, and today's work on the presentation will be a good start for the future.
Composition of the jury and final parting words
So, after 23:59 Moscow time on October 15, participants in the competition will no longer be able to edit projects and make changes to presentations.
Further, the work will pass the initial screening and go to the jury. The following judges and their teams will evaluate them and identify the winner:
1. Andrey Yarantsev , head of the Wargaming publishing division - chairman of the jury. Game Dev Experience - 7 years.
An expert in the field of business process organization, in 2007-08 he certified two IT companies for compliance with ISO9001 and ISO27001. In Wargaming, he built an international publishing division with a dozen offices in various countries of the CIS, Europe, North America and Asia.
2. Alexander Shilyaev, Director of the global operation of meta-games and mobile products Wargaming - expert on mobile games and service applications. Game Dev Experience - 9 years.
He led the development of the World of Tanks project. Currently oversees mobile and special projects of the company. He is involved in the coordination of global market launch processes, operations and business development related to Wargaming mobile projects.
3. Andrey Karpyuk , Director of Mobile Development Wargaming - an expert on mobile applications. Experience in mobile game development - 10 years.
One of the founders of DAVA, which released the first iOS app in 2008, shortly after the launch of the AppStore. In total, games developed by DAVA have been downloaded by users more than 15 million times.
4.Sergey Smolsky , Head of Wargaming Web Development Department - Web Expert. Game Dev Experience - 6 years.
He was at the forefront of World of Tanks and for more than six years at the company he managed to create and establish the work of a web development department, which is responsible for creating web services and their integration with games in the Wargaming universe. Currently, the department is developing over 60 projects to create various non-gaming services.
5. Anton Pankov , chief executive producer of the Wargaming publishing division, will primarily evaluate user mods and applications, as well as projects that contribute to the development of the company and its products. Game Dev Experience - 4 years.
The main competencies are publishing, user interaction. The main representative of users of Wargaming products within the company.
6. Levon Zakharchenko , head of the World of Tanks Game Design department at Wargaming - the company's leading game designer; he and his team will give a detailed assessment of the mods. Game Dev Experience - 8 years.
Specialist in level design, game balance, game mechanics, scenarios and battle system.
As you can see, the jury is selected by Wargaming in such a way as to give the most complete assessment of each project - both from the technical, “development” side, and from the point of view of marketing and publishing potential. Another member of the jury will represent Habrahabr.ru:
7. Dmitry Kolobov, technical director of Habr.
Ahead of you are waiting for more than three weeks of intensive refinement and polishing of presentations and projects. So far, not all of them have been put in the public domain, because we are looking forward to the real bombs and surprises from you before October 15, as well as questions in the comments right now. Good luck