Iryna Bilous and Nika Avayan fled their homes but are now at the world's largest gaming conference.
Like many colleagues in the video game industry, Iryna Bilous and Nika Avayan recently arrived at the world's largest gaming conference, Gamescom in Germany, to show off their latest title to fans. But for these two Ukrainians, the road to the trade fair has been anything but a normal journey.
Ms Bilous, Frogwares' release manager, fled from Kyiv to France along with her pet cockatiel Blinchik . Its Opening Night Live evening, held at the beginning of the trade fair and hosted by Canadian presenter and games journalist Geoff Keighley, has been seen as one of the biggest nights in the video gaming calendar in recent years for games companies to reveal what they have in the pipeline.
The only solution was to take a bus and wait for 11 hours at the border between Ukraine and Poland. Luckily, the pair's flight to Frankfurt was delayed too, meaning they could still attend the event on time, despite the anxious wait in between.With roughly 80 employees, Frogwares wouldn't be considered by most in the industry to be a very large studio compared with the likes of video game giants Electronic Arts or Ubisoft.
But she adds that, as more team members have returned, there have been office reunions and even the reappearance of the usual office banter. "We make a lot of memes," she laughs. "It's like, the only way to laugh now is to create memes and to joke."Gamescom is billed as the world's largest event for computer and video games
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