World of Tanks 1.0 development: A tour of the Minsk office of the internationally acclaimed game development team

The military history online game World of Tanks is one of the most famous brands of the Belarusian IT industry. Developed in 2010, it rapidly conquered the global market and has won a Guinness World Record by the number of concurrent gamers online. It is not the only accomplishment of Wargaming Company’s Minsk software development center Game Stream, which is a resident company of the Hi-Tech Park.

On 21 February in anticipation of Fatherland Defenders’ Day mass media representatives were invited on a tour of the Minsk office for a close and personal look at how World of Tanks is developed. Our report shows what the office of one of the leaders of the Belarusian Silicon Valley looks like, shows who the developers on the other side of the virtual reality are, and peculiarities of online games development.