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Source: Moscow Government – Moscow Government –
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Residents of the Moscow Video Game and Animation Cluster, the first phase of the creative cluster in Skolkovo, opened by Sergei Sobyanin, have been selected. They include Moscow studios with unique gaming and animation projects.
"Forty-one companies—33 video game studios and eight animation studios—have been selected for residency in the Moscow Video Game and Animation Cluster. They will gain access to development programs and infrastructure, as well as Skolkovo's tax incentives. The new space will become the world's first full-cycle development ecosystem for animation, video game, and media content," noted the Moscow Government Minister and Head of the Moscow Department of Culture.
One of the residents is Geeky House, which will develop the adventure mobile game Magical Merge: Puzzle Adventure. Game Art Pioneers, publisher of the visual novel "Bunny," will continue to expand and create the role-playing game "Distortion" and the slasher game "Cyberslav: Eclipse."
Computer game development studio Black Caviar Games will continue developing the atmospheric horror game Northflower: The Last Watch, as well as the retrofuturistic adventure game Pio. Resident Terrabyte Games will continue developing the Run Away From Me series and the shooter Basis Nord.
Other video game companies include Mensa, Voltep, Hanuman Games, DreamCraft Studio, Blue Cat's Games, Herbarium Games, Crumple Studios, JoyBox Studio, Vampire Squid, Virtonix, Renderise, Overmobile, Two Horn Unicorn, Gemenot Digital, Antelus Games, Digital Sports, Norllina Studio, Siberian Artisans, GamePunk Studio, halfwaypixel, Kafa Games, Technocore Lab, Madness Studio, Divovision Games, Oduvan Games, Erathian Project, and the Who is Terry? development team.
Aeroplan animation studio, part of the Riki group of companies, which produces the animated series "The Fixies," plans to work on a new project about scientific and technological advances in agriculture within the cluster. Yarko animation company (part of Gazprom-Media Holding) plans to develop new projects, "Motomars" and "The Learned Cat." Platoshka studio will continue to create the educational musical animated series "Tsvetnyashki" for children under four. Other animation companies involved include Itsalive Studio, Lux Cinema, Pervyy Proekt, Not Alone Production, and Klaxon Production.
The Moscow Video Game and Animation Cluster is a comprehensive ecosystem with educational, export, and production infrastructure focused on supporting both aspiring and experienced developers.
The innovation cluster will house a motion capture studio for creating highly realistic graphics. Background sounds, soundtracks, and music will be recorded in the recording studio, along with voiceovers for video games and animated films, and the resulting footage will be reviewed and adjusted in a specially equipped cinema.
For educational programs and courses, the cluster features a lecture hall—a technically equipped modular space that can be divided into different event formats.
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