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Mine too - that's why I just posted the URL
There are some info in English there though...
Seems like they are just distributors/publishers for some other games in Russia, including "The Second Crown" (apparently from Germany) - I've never heard of it.
Here you go kids:
A Rough Russian to English Translation of the Smowball Press Release
Snowball together with Paradox to develop new game
09/04/2002 17:10 / Sergey Klimov
Moscow studio Snowball Interactive and Swedish Paradox Entertainment undertake their first joint project - the global medieval strategy "Crusaders".
The Game has been in development from the beginning of this year by the joint Russian - Swedish direction (for the Russian industry it is perhaps the first example of teamwork between Russian and foreign developers), advisers - employees Gosudarstvenogo (?) of a historical museum.
The Project is based on the Europa Universalis II engine and opens the struggle of royal dynasties for riches, power and prestige in period with 1066 for 1419 - the period marked by legendary crusades (pay attention: saved in the end of "Crusaders" the game can be exported to Europa Universails II "!).
A Rough Russian to English Translation of the Smowball Press Release
Snowball together with Paradox to develop new game
09/04/2002 17:10 / Sergey Klimov
Moscow studio Snowball Interactive and Swedish Paradox Entertainment undertake their first joint project - the global medieval strategy "Crusaders".
The Game has been in development from the beginning of this year by the joint Russian - Swedish direction (for the Russian industry it is perhaps the first example of teamwork between Russian and foreign developers), advisers - employees Gosudarstvenogo (?) of a historical museum.
The Project is based on the Europa Universalis II engine and opens the struggle of royal dynasties for riches, power and prestige in period with 1066 for 1419 - the period marked by legendary crusades (pay attention: saved in the end of "Crusaders" the game can be exported to Europa Universails II "!).
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Halo there,
just to add to what Patric has posted, snowball.ru is our sister company that is focused on publishing in Russia while Snowball Interactive is the development studio. We used to be all together both in corporate and in actual but since this winter we're running the divisions as separate companies with focus on different things. So S.I. is the one working on Crusader Kings, while snowball.ru will publish the Russian version here (and if they do a less-than-perfect job, we'll maim them.
Re: our track history, the biggest thing we've done (and not through, actually) is www.fatherdale.com, the medieval RPG/adventure.
Re: team, to add to Patric (again the Russian part is like that:
Boris "Boreal" Puzitski (Designer)
Alex Zdorov (Engineering/Design Consaltant)
Vitaly Klimov (Engineering Consultant)
Sergei Rozhkov (Programmer)
Vladimir Bulatov (Research Consultant)
plus me as Theo's co-producer and Mike Kolbasnikov as Game Artist plus maybe Masha Zhalnina also as Game Artist later on.
A fact worth mentioning is that Vladimir works in Dept. of Cartography at the State Historical Museum here, the chief authority on the Russian history (you should see their new Exhibit Halls on Red Square!!. Another fact is that Boris is probably the best-ever Russian player in EU, he's been a leader of the Russian forum of the series for a long time and knows it in and out. Add here an utterly constructive mind, and you have a killer designer .
just to add to what Patric has posted, snowball.ru is our sister company that is focused on publishing in Russia while Snowball Interactive is the development studio. We used to be all together both in corporate and in actual but since this winter we're running the divisions as separate companies with focus on different things. So S.I. is the one working on Crusader Kings, while snowball.ru will publish the Russian version here (and if they do a less-than-perfect job, we'll maim them
.Re: our track history, the biggest thing we've done (and not through, actually) is www.fatherdale.com, the medieval RPG/adventure.
Re: team, to add to Patric (again
the Russian part is like that:Boris "Boreal" Puzitski (Designer)
Alex Zdorov (Engineering/Design Consaltant)
Vitaly Klimov (Engineering Consultant)
Sergei Rozhkov (Programmer)
Vladimir Bulatov (Research Consultant)
plus me as Theo's co-producer and Mike Kolbasnikov as Game Artist plus maybe Masha Zhalnina also as Game Artist later on.
A fact worth mentioning is that Vladimir works in Dept. of Cartography at the State Historical Museum here, the chief authority on the Russian history (you should see their new Exhibit Halls on Red Square!!
. Another fact is that Boris is probably the best-ever Russian player in EU, he's been a leader of the Russian forum of the series for a long time and knows it in and out. Add here an utterly constructive mind, and you have a killer designer .
Sounds great - Quite a good team there!
I guess with Vladimir working at the Dept. of Cartography we can expect a historically accurate map.
I guess with Vladimir working at the Dept. of Cartography we can expect a historically accurate map.
Thx for the information sergei. My russian is non-existent so I had a hard time understanding anything on snowball.ru. Looks like a good team there. I hope you and Paradox can make a great game out of CK.
