I am Pavel Levdik, from St-Petersburg, Russia. Since Febr. 2022 I live in Poland.
I’ve been making urban games for about 17 years. Born in 1967 in Leningrad. In 1991 I graduated from the Polytechnic University. At first I knew nothing about games and worked as a civil engineer. Then, I got acquainted with the project “Running City” www.runcity.org and became interested in city quests. I realized that inventing games is more interesting than participating. As a volunteer and organizer, I made games in St.-Petersburg, Tbilisi, Batumi, Prague, on Kola Peninsula, in Baltic States and Finland.
Participation in «Raban-2022» Game Festival in Łódź, organized by the Department Gier, brought many new ideas.
I am currently interested in collaborating with IT specialists in the creation and promotion of online quests in different cities. At the Game Festival in Tartu, I want to demonstrate that a city quest can be more than just entertainment. By uncovering unexpected pages of history, it sometimes helps people who speak different languages understand each other.