A lot of people moved out of Ukraine, but it’s still a country of 40 million people. We offered the opportunity to work initially in Vilnius and now in Warsaw for all of our employees who want to. It’s a decision that everyone makes for themselves. But this is a personal decision for everyone. After those two initial buses, all the relocations were just individuals. We had quite a few pets.Īfter that we didn’t have big groups of people who wanted to relocate. We offered transport to our employees, the members of their families, and also they were allowed to take relatives and friends if they wanted to. We initially moved everyone here to Vilnius. Also, just getting across the border with everyone who wanted to leave. Because there were so many people leaving Ukraine, it was hard to organize transport, to get vehicles and fuel. We worked on offering our employees the possibility to relocate. Trofimova: During the first day of the war, there was the shock of it all. GamesBeat: What do you recall having to do in the first days of the war? Dnipro is also a major city in the east, but the front is not in the cities. Odessa, being a port city, was bombed and attacked quite a bit in the last year. There has been bombing and blackouts, those kinds of things. Trofimova: No, both cities haven’t seen action on the ground. GamesBeat: Have they had to evacuate from their locations at any point, or have they kept working? There are about 20 in Warsaw and the rest are at the headquarters in Vilnius. Trofimova: We have just a few less than 100 who are still in Ukraine. GamesBeat: Of those 270 employees, how many are still in Ukraine? Our biggest games are Cooking Favor, Happy Clinic, and Murder By Choice. We have about 270 employees across all of those studios. Most recently, we now have a studio in Warsaw for employees that relocated. Our main studio is in Vilnius, and we also have two studios in Ukraine, one in Odessa and one in Dnipro. Now we specialize in developing casual games on iOS and Android. Then we moved to mobile at the beginning of iOS and smartphones. We started on consoles as a developer for hire. We’ve been around for more than 20 years. Victoria Trofimova: Nordcurrent is based in Vilnius, Lithuania. GamesBeat: Could you start by telling me more about yourself and about Nordcurrent? Here’s an edited transcript of our interview. And how to ship games - including some with some very goofy images - during wartime. I talked to Trofimova about the challenge of running the business and the greater problem of reminding everyone that the war in Ukraine is still raging. And the team has helped raise money for the Ukrainian cause. Some employees refused to leave, and some joined the army to fight the Russians. Of Nordcurrent’s 270 employees, more than 100 are still in Ukraine, working a considerable distance away from the front but still in a warzone. Register Here Victoria Trofimova is CEO of Norcurrent.
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