Andriy Melnychenko
Area730 / Collaboration Games, Indie developer
Andriy Melnychenko is an indie developer (Area730 / Collaboration Games) with 12 years of experience. He started as a 2D artist, later worked in 3D modeling, level design and animation, and became a technical artist and Unity programmer. He holds higher education degrees in architecture and in software. For several years he was part of a team making mobile kids' simulators that together reached about 80 million downloads. He is now developing his own indie game, handling programming, game design and art. For two years he has practised social media marketing and experimented with recommended approaches to promoting indie games. He also teaches game development to children. At Games Gathering 2024 he spoke about marketing and promotion of your own indie game.