Creative director, Game designer [iprospero@gmail.com]
Russian Federation
- Current
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- Creative Director at World Media Ventures Management
- Owner, Game designer at Prosperous Design (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Team Leader, Senior game designer at 2RealLife
- Game designer at Sunny Games LLC
- Project manager & Game designer at HeroCraft
- Game designer at KranX Productions
- Game designer (by contract) at Dynamic Pixels
- Game designer at Frodo
- Graphic Designer at Stora Enso Packaging
- Editor, Web-projects Manager at R52.ru Nizhny Novgorod web-portal
- Co-founder, lead designer at Centre of Modern Information Technologies (Self-employed)
- Education
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- Nižegorodskij Gosudarstvennyj Tehniceskij Universitet
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Ilya Kurylev’s Summary
I'm involved in gaming industry since 2003.
Took part as concept or game designer more that 45 mobile, PC and Web game projects in cooperation with 6 game development studios.
Current location: Moscow (Russia)
My major specialization is game desing for online & casual markets.
My field of activity:
- game design for casual games
- browser-based MMO games and online fun services
- psychological analysis and adaptation of games for casual market
- adapting video games to mobile or flash games, advertising games
- using brands and licenses for game design.
My experience on this field:
- adaptation of fantasy novel of famous Russian fiction writers Sergei Lukyanenko and Nick Perumov for RPG-game "No Time for Dragons" (PC)
- football manager game licensed by famous football club (not announced yet, Mobile)
- design fo casual & fun pool game (Pool Arena, J2Me)
- set of casual erotic arcade games (Mobile)
- free online flash games (www.gametop.com)
- browser-based MMO social game (in production)
Feel free to contact me for consulting or something else.
ICQ: 117438705
E-mail: iprospero@gmail.com
Portfolio and blog (rus): http://igrostroy.ru
Profile (eng): http://www.linkedin.com/in/prospero
Profile (rus): http://iprospero.moikrug.ru
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Ilya Kurylev’s Specialties:
- concept & game design,
- adaptation novels and movies to game plots,
- psychological aspects of games,
- movie & game trends analysis,
- team leadership, project management,
- typology, psychological research & analysis.
Ilya Kurylev’s Experience
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Creative Director
World Media Ventures Management
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Development and creative lidership of gaming division of company (casual, browser and client MMO games)
Involved in:
- forming strategy for casual, browser and client MMO markets;
- building project teams and project producing;
- creative team management. -
Owner, Game designer
Prosperous Design (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)
October 2003 — Present (5 years 10 months)
My field of activity:
- game design for casual market
- psychological analysis and adaptation of games for casual market
- adapting of fiction novels and movie scripts for game plots
- adapting video games to mobile or flash games, advertising games
- using brands and licenses for game design.
My experience on this field:
- adaptation of fantasy novel of famous Russian fiction writers Sergei Lukyanenko and Nick Perumov for RPG-game "No Time for Dragons" (PC)
- football manager game licensed by famous football club (not announced yet, Mobile)
- design fo casual & fun pool game (Pool Arena, J2Me)
- set of casual erotic arcade games (Mobile)
- free online flash games (www.gametop.com)
- browser-based multi-user social online game
More information: http://igrostroy.ru -
Team Leader, Senior game designer
2RealLife
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Browser-based MMO games and online fun services
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Game designer
Sunny Games LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2006 — June 2006 (4 months)
- game design for browser-based online games (flash)
- game design for free downloadable games:
Best games:
- Golf Master 3D (flash, Daily 4th Place on NewGrounds.com)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/312318
- daBomb Pong (flash)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/311023
- Pac-xon (flash)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/327718
- KGB Hunter (downloadable)
http://www.gametop.com/download_free_shooting/games_kgb_hunter.html
- Mini golf Pro (downloadable)
http://www.gametop.com/download_free_sport/games_minigolf.html
See website for more details: http://www.gametop.com -
Project manager & Game designer
HeroCraft
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)
May 2005 — March 2006 (11 months)
Took part...
- as game designer in 8 game projects
- as project manager in 18 game projects
- as concept designer in 6 game projects
Platforms: J2Me, Symbian, WinMobile, PocketPC
Announced games:
- Kamikaze 2: The Way Of Samurai (rpg/adventure)
- Revival (turn-based global strategy)
- Black Shark (action)
- Blind Fury (platformer arcade)
- Governator 2 (action)
- Soul Catcher (adventure/quest)
- Arcade Park, vol.1 (arcade)
- Ball Rush 2 (experimantal version of arcanoid)
- Sweet Invaders (casual erotic arcade game)
See website for more details: http://www.herocraft.com -
Game designer
KranX Productions
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)
June 2004 — May 2005 (1 year)
- took part in 6 PC game projects (1 announced)
- adaptation of sci-fi novel for game plot
(Sergei Lukyanenko, Nick Perumov "No Time for Dragons")
See website for more details: http://kranx.com -
Game designer (by contract)
Dynamic Pixels
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)
February 2004 — June 2004 (5 months)
- game design for mobile platforms (J2Me/Brew)
See website for more details: http://www.dp-mobile.ru -
Game designer
Frodo
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)
March 2004 — June 2004 (4 months)
- game design of 3D-adventure game (not yet announced)
See website for more details: http://www.frodosoft.ru -
Graphic Designer
Stora Enso Packaging
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Packaging and Containers industry)
March 2003 — March 2004 (1 year 1 month)
- package graphic design
- design of transport boxes
- adaptation of corporate identity for packaging
Clients and brends: Miller, Tinkoff, Kozel, PIT, Baltimor, Balkan Star, Nidan Foods, DigiDon, Nestle, Wimm-Bill-Dann, Efes, Baltika, Gallina Blanca, Gerros Group.
See website for more details: http://www.storaenso.com/ -
Editor, Web-projects Manager
R52.ru Nizhny Novgorod web-portal
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2002 — March 2003 (1 year)
- web-projects management
- concept development
- coordination of publicity department
See website for more details: http://r52.ru -
Co-founder, lead designer
Centre of Modern Information Technologies (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 2002 (5 years)
- design of corporate identify
- design of presentations for exhibition
- various IT services
Ilya Kurylev’s Education
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Nižegorodskij Gosudarstvennyj Tehniceskij Universitet
1996 — 2003
Additional Information
Ilya Kurylev’s Websites:
Ilya Kurylev’s Interests:
Russian and World movie industry Experimental psychology, skills traning Socionics, MBTI and other typologies Networking, business connections
Ilya Kurylev’s Groups:
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The Games Developers Network (www.vfx-recruit.com) -
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Game Creator's Network -
VideoGame Professionals -
Virtual Worlds and Gaming Professionals -
GameDev.net -
FlashGAMM! -
AddVenture fund
Ilya Kurylev’s Honors:
"Most useful site" 2002 award
(for "News Cocktail" (news.r52.ru) on "Day of Nizhny Novgorod Internet - 2002")
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"The Best Designed Exposition" 1997 award
(on "Days of economy of the Nizhniy Novgorod region" in Dusseldorf (Germany), 1997)
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