Hello, everyone! My name is Aleksey Savchenko, and I’m the author of "Cyberside." I thought it would be a good idea to say “hi” before we embark on this journey together with this website and Cyberside Blog.
In addition to what you can read in the “About Me” section of this page, I’d like to share a bit more about myself. I’m 42 years old, I live in Guildford, UK, and have spent most of my professional life focused on writing and game development.
Reading was my passion from a very young age — I think I read my first book at four years old. However, video games and movies eventually became my true obsessions. This passion guided me on an exciting journey through the international entertainment industry, allowing me to travel and work around the globe. Ultimately, I found my new home in the United Kingdom.
We moved to the United Kingdom about ten years ago, mainly because of a job offer from Epic Games. In 2016, I began writing and publishing books professionally. My first success was Cyberside, which has been bought and read by over ten thousand people. My other bestseller, "The Game: From Dream to Release". It helped many people to understand the ropes of game development production and business development.
Then well, COVID-19 happened, along with the war in Ukraine, my home country, which made me take a career break and concentrate on helping the country and its people, trying to do whatever I can to assist those affected. A somewhat challenging, convoluted period of my life was volatile and hectic, with changing gigs, contracts, and unexpected adventures. This time in my life has also taught me how important it is to have people who care about you and can help you carry through those complex times (separate regards to my family and my best friend Olesya, who had to tolerate a very grumpy and half-depressed dude for about a year).
As things became more stable in 2024, I decided to stop for a while, recalibrate my life, and understand my priorities. They turned out to be family, being true to myself, following my passions, and doing cool stuff. My friends and I have followed this realisation.
As of now, I’m back working at the company I started working for in game development about twenty years ago, GSC Game World. I dedicate most of my free time to writing and creating creative products. I also spend time with my spouse, Viktoriia, son Kyryl, and cockapoo dog Jack. You can probably catch me around Guildford, London, Prague, and a few other cities worldwide, looking for new impressions and observing the beauty of the world we all live in.
In 2024, I finished the prequel to Cyberside, called "Cyberside: Level Zero", and we were almost done working on the comic Cyberside: Child of Darkness. This is how the idea of this website emerged. Having the whole growing world at my (and the people who help me, of course) hands, I have decided to launch this project that will get through about six months of books, comics, art, blogs, the introduction of friends and team members, stories and a whole bunch of surprises if you are willing to join.
When I started writing the prequel in March, I wanted to finish the story of the Cyberside and answer all of the questions you might have left after reading the original book. However, this is only the beginning of a bigger, fantastic story we are starting now.
Please subscribe, join, and let me become your narrator for 2025 in an adventure that will tell the story of a person, team, company, industry, and imagination that helps us all transform this world into something bigger than just your normal day.
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