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Ukraine remains a living symbol of gaming’s resilience and adaptation
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A statue from the 2014 war in Cherkasy: A Ukrainian soldier guards the White Tree of Gondor.Back in April 2022, when I was interviewing Pavel Izotov, the maker of the Rebuild Ukraine mobile game, he paused multiple times to wipe tears from his eyes. There, Lerika Mallayeva, who founded the FlashGAMM game event in 2008, told me that her company was thrown into chaos on the day of the Russian invasion, which was not a total surprise but still shocking when it finally happened. “Many fans, driven by their intense love for these franchises, sometimes lose touch with the fact that real human beings exist behind these fictional games they cherish,” said Andrew Stephan, the filmmaker, in his director’s notes about the film.
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