GameTrek: THEO world order simulation

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2023: Development of a multipolar world simulator game for 200 million rubles

GameTrek has begun work on the world blockbuster in the field of computer games - THEO world order simulation. Representatives of GameTrek shared this with TAdviser on March 16, 2023. The game will become a simulator of a multipolar world, where the user, playing for one of the sides, will be able to form a new world order. According to the company, the project budget exceeds 200 million rubles. According to the calculations of the developers, the indicators of media coverage will exceed the level of 300 million people around the world, while the number of unique players will reach 10 million people.

Russian company creates a game-simulator of a multipolar world

Oleg Yanovsky, teacher of the Department of Political Theory at MGIMO, lawyer Yekaterina Gordon, political scientist, Doctor of Economics Nikita Krichevsky, publicist and radio host Armen Gasparyan, political consultant Igor Dimitriev, leading Russian prognostic specialist, military historian, researcher and science fiction theorist, publicist Sergei Pereslegin have already joined the work on the project as experts.

According to GameTrek, the gameplay has been unfolding since 1991 and captures important milestones in modern history that influenced and affect the global political balance of power. These are the war in Yugoslavia, the expansion of NATO and the European Union, the tragedy of September 11, 2011, the growing influence of China, the annexation of Crimea, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the COVID-19 pandemic and, finally, a special military operation in Ukraine.

Screenshot of THEO world order simulation video presentation

The plot of the game provides for two stages. First, the player will be asked to take part in a training session that immerses him in the context of world processes. Next, the participant will be able to choose one of the parties to the global world. Russia and the multipolar world, the global West led by the United States, the Chinese path of development, the world of great Islam. And after the choice made, try to defend your version of the new world order in the game.

GameTrek has created simulators of international political processes before. But the development of the THEO game is carried out using domestic technologies.

The co-founder of the company Kirill Shcherbakov is also the owner - IT creating integrator ITFB Group innovative products. Its experts combine competencies in development ON with real-world experience in digital transformation, design thinking and modern methods. project management

As noted, the studio has become a Skolkovo resident, and the team has more than 20 years of experience in working with information technologies, has significant skills in scaling relevant products, owns international PR and marketing tools, and cooperates with geopolitical experts.

"Strategy games, as a rule, are made according to the wars of the past, where a good user knows everything thoroughly; it is convenient to work with completely fantastic worlds. It's much harder to deal with modernity. With wars that have just ended or not even ended at all. THEO world order simulation is interesting, first of all, in that it is fully converted at present. The collapse of the global world is inevitable - this is a phase crisis, but it can go through different scenarios. The Earth chose the scenario of regional wars, the first of which was the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. It is not finished yet, and this turns THEO world order simulation from ordinary entertainment into a real staff game, "says Sergey Pereslegin.

Screenshot of THEO world order simulation video presentation

"We know how to promote global products, and we see a window of opportunity in bringing our vision of deep world processes to an international audience through the development and actualization of the legendary game," said Kirill Shcherbakov, co-founder of GameTrek.

This political simulator, according to the developers, is able to form the image of the future multipolar world in advance so that in the real world Russian and international users can build and test their own political strategies.

"For the Russian and international market, this is a unique product, since it is opportunistically and popularly responding to a real historical request formed in the current situation. In the course of the game, any participant will be able to get an answer to the question of how this world will develop in the near future and what results today's decisions can lead to, "says Nikita Krichevsky, Doctor of Economics.

The company is also confident that THEO world order simulation will be able to play the role of soft power.

"In the military sphere, command and staff games are used, where the alleged operations are practiced. Thus, without risking human lives, the necessary set of actions is effectively worked out. It would be good to apply such game, virtual methods in foreign policy, in the development of soft power, "said political consultant Igor Dimitriev.