Gusarov, Dmitry Vladimirovich

Dmitry Vladimirovich Gusarov (born December 20, 1973) is a Russian game designer , general director of the Katauri Interactive studio. In 1999, alone wrote the first version of the turn-based strategy " General ". The game had almost no graphics, but differed in the original gameplay . In the documentation, the author wrote that he has a lot of ideas and needs work. These words were addressed to the publishers of computer games. " Space Rangers " became the second major work of Dmitry, on the implementation of which through the Internet worked up to 40 people. The publisher of the game was 1C . To conclude an agreement with the publisher, the developers created the legal entity NewGame Software. Which was later renamed Elemental Games . In 2004, the majority of developers led by Dmitry Gusarov registered the new legal entity Katauri Interactive . Today in this company on an ongoing basis employs up to 20 people. Following the release of the famous Space Rangers game, Katauri Interactive began developing a game called King's Bounty: The Legend of the Knight . In 2008, developers from Vladivostok, where the company was founded, moved to Kaliningrad.

The game King's Bounty: The Legend of the Knight came out successful and Dmitry Gusarov began the development in Kaliningrad of the second part - “ King's Bounty: Princess in the Shell ”. The second part of the game was accepted by both domestic and foreign gaming press with special warmth ^[1] and won the recognition of the players.

After creating King's Bounty: Princess in the Shell , Dmitry began to develop a new game - MMORPG Royal Quest . The project, like all the previous ones, was warmly received by the public, however, with the beginning of beta testing, it turned out that the current mechanics of the game were not particularly interested in the game, as a result of which the publisher of the game, 1C applied to change the mechanics of the game to the head of Katauri Interactive . The developer went this way, and less than a year later, Royal Quest got a new mechanic, which, in theory, should have satisfied the mass consumer. At the same time, the publisher gradually began to intervene in the development process, which turned out to be unusual for Katauri Interactive due to the relative independence in the work on previous projects. Such a policy of the company forced Dmitry to leave his post, leaving the further development of the game 1C .

A year later, Dmitry began developing the browser-based game “ MusicWars ” in collaboration with Destiny Development . The game was expected to be commercial success, and already at the beginning of 2014, a few months after the launch, the project earned an amount of about 200,000 rubles. per day, according to the development company, however, Dmitry’s royalty remained low, as was the case with the Space Rangers , when the developer was financially constrained and could not dictate his terms to the publisher. According to data for 2015 , the old contract has lost its force, and, having concluded a new one, Dmitry finally began to receive worthy dividends from his activities.