February 7th 2011
By N65ultra

Although we are sometimes oblivious to it, gaming is more than just a hobby enjoyed in the United States and Japan. Video games are starting to reach into all kinds of markets and all different languages. So, to further educate the gaming community, Games That Matter here to help.

Every week, we will feature a different games company and country and interview the developer about gaming in their part of the world.

This week, we interviewed the Burut Creative Team from Russia about PC Gaming. Here is the interview and to find out more about their company, please visit http://www.burut.ru.


1. When was your company founded?

Burut CT is a software-development studio that was founded in October 1999. At first we developed some educative programs such as "How to improve your memory", Mathematics Encyclopedia and Massage Encyclopedia. And then having well-coordinated team of 11 persons we started developing games. Our first game project and first
success in the entertainment industry was the fantasy role-playing game titled "Heath". It was released in March 2001. Due to the "Heath" we gained useful experience and name in the game market. Our current office is located in the center of our city, Voronezh, and is equipped with powerful computers.


2. How many employees do you have?

Now we've nearly 40 persons who work on different projects.


3. In what countries do you sell your games?

We sell our games in Russia of course, along with Ukraine, Spain, Italy, Czech, Poland and soon our games will be released in US and Germany.


4. Is there a big market for video games in Russia?

No, now videogames became old and changed to PC-games. There are a lot of PC games of different developers in Russia.


5. What kinds of games have you made, or do you plan to make?

We make RPG, FPS and we are going to make Strategy games soon.


6. How do you create your games? What programs do you use?

We use C, C++, AsM, and Pascal etc.


7. Are all of your games in Cyrillic, or do they incorporate some English also?

They are in Cyrillic, but now we are working on localization of Kreed and Goldenland: Cold Heaven.


8. Any idea when your games will be released in North America?

Expect to see a US version of Kreed in a month or two.

Thank you for your time. We will have more information on Burut's upcoming games soon.