Continuing our series of publications where professionals from gaming companies talk about their careers. The new article in the series is about Core Game Designer. Dmitry Aborilov, the lead core gameplay designer at Nekki, has detailed the position.

We are launching a new section where professionals from gaming companies talk about their careers. It’s called “Profession.” The first article in the series is about the work of an environment artist (level artist/environment artist). Timur Ozdoev, the lead level artist on the project SPINE—a Nekki game for PC and consoles—explained what this job entails. Timur previously worked at CD PROJEKT RED on Cyberpunk 2077.

The developer of the Shadow Fight series announced the conclusion of a partnership with the media company Story Kitchen. The latter will take up filming a TV project based on the yet-to-be-released game SPINE.

Nekki has updated the Cascadeur character animation tool to version 2024.1. Briefly tell us what has changed.

Nekki has decided to enter the Web3 gaming market. She presented the HTML5 browser-based game Fight Me, a fighting game in a fantastic setting in which NFTS will appear.

Nekki has abandoned the Unity engine. Its founder Dmitry Terekhin wrote on LinkedIn that the Spine action already in development will now be made on Unreal Engine.

Many developers have spoken sharply about Unity’s new pricing policy. One of them was Dmitry Terekhin, the founder of Nekki.

Nekki games have been downloaded more than a billion times in total. 95% of all downloads are organic.

In February, the official comic book for the Shadow Fight franchise appeared on the bookshelves of the CIS. We talked with Nikita Korzhavin, Nekki‘s business development director, about how the comic was being worked on and what task it solves for the game franchise.

Nekki has officially released Cascadeur in the release. The tool has more than 10 years of development and three years of beta testing.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Dmitry Terekhin, the founder of Nekki.

Another mobile developer from the CIS is entering the market of console and PC games. Today at Gamescom, the announcement of the Spine PvP action – the first Nekki project for “big” platforms – took place. This is a cooperative PvP action game from the studio Banzai Games, known for the mobile series Shadow Fight and Vector.

Two months ago – in April 2021 – Nekki launched the Cascadeur character animation tool for early access. This time was enough for the engine to increase the audience of users from 70 thousand to 80 thousand people.

The Shadow Fight Arena game from Nekki and Banzai Games studios was selected by Netflix for integration into the new Jupiter’s Legacy series, which is based on the superhero comic book series of the same name. Nekki Business Development Director Nikita Korzhavin told in his column on App2Top.ru how does the company manage to “appear on TV” and does it have a chance to create its own series based on the Shadow Fight universe.

Publisher Nekki announced the release of the Cascadeur program in early access format. The company also announced exactly how it plans to monetize the service.

Dmitry Terekhin, the founder of Nekki, told App2Top how 2020 was for his company. He also shared the direction in which his company will develop next year.

After two years of development, a new project by Nekki and Banzai Games, the mobile fighting game Shadow Fight Arena, has been released worldwide. We talked to the founders of the companies about how the game was being developed and why it is their first major step towards consoles and multiplatform.

Today, on November 3, after two years of development, Nekki, together with Banzai Games, launched a new game in the Shadow Fight — Arena universe for worldwide release. This is a mobile fighting game with synchronous PvP. Even at the “soft launch” stage, the game showed excellent retention.

Nekki has announced the launch of open beta testing of Cascadeur. This is a software for creating realistic character animations. The OBT version of Cascadeur can be used for free for the development of commercial projects. Special permission from Nekki is not required for this.