Fireside chat
summary
A single viral image of Ilya Muromets becomes the seed for a project that over five years grows into a full Slavic-folk game setting with characters, fans and lore, spun out of an illustrator’s evenings and repost traction on VK and western sites. The work yields artbooks and a shop, a simple first tabletop game due next year and a planned heftier game with miniatures, plus a pending anthology with Eksmo and four planned volumes — worldbuilding-by-art that is already proving commercially viable.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:11Project origin story
- 6:18Character inspiration
- 13:17Cosplay and fans
- 22:53Stereotypes in fantasy
- 28:03Game and book proposals
- 35:27Project finances
- 40:46Positive vs negative characters
- 43:12Future plans
- 45:23Q&A
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