Alexey Sazonov

Age: 40

«When gaming is not just a job, but a real passion and lifestyle»

Alexey is always happy to play online and sports games with other game developers, share tips and contacts. He, among the others, is actively building the game dev community of Kaliningrad.

In 2021, together with Sergei Koziakov and Alexey Kuzin, he founded Finnish company Order of Meta, that also owns a game development studio in Kaliningrad, that specializes in shooters. So far, the company employs 18 people in Kaliningrad and Helsinki. A beta-version of their first game is expected to be released in 2022. Recently, the company raised $ 1.5 million in pre-seed investment from prominent foreign investors including Play Ventures, Initial Catital, as well as the Unity game engine founder, billionaire David Helgason.

Prior to Order of Meta, Alexey was the CEO and co-founder of Parnzerdog company. The company’s only product, Tacticool, is a mobile third-person shooter. The game pits two teams of 5 players each against one another in five-minute online session. The total revenue of the project since the launch of Tacticool has exceeded 30 million $US, which is a highest revenue for games made in Kaliningrad. In 2019, Mail.ru, an internet company, bought a controlling stake from the founders of the company.

In total, Alexey has been involved in game dev for 15 years, 6 of which as a business owner.