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How Andrew Stephan made War Game — the Ukraine game documentary | The DeanBeat


Andrew Stephan is the director of War Game: The Making of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, a documentary from Microsoft about the ordeal of the game developers at GSC Game World, the Ukraine game studio that had to make S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: The Heart of Chornobyl, a triple-A game, in the middle of a war zone. The film depicts […]

That’s the other thing, just being drawn to the fact that–how surreal it is to have these employees that not only stayed behind, but felt the sense of duty to country to go serve on the front lines. Maria and Ievgen Grygorvich of GSC Game World, maker of Stalker 2, at Gamescom 2024.I will say, a lot of people have been very supportive. As I started to immerse myself in the story a year and a half ago, seeing the comments from the people who were impatient about the delays and the attacks on the studio, for me it was a rare opportunity to humanize a team in this world.

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