Barkour is an action-stealth game by Varsav Game Studios in Poland that features a secret-agent dog using gadgets, stealth, combat, and short bursts of flight. The game is slated for release later this year. Polish game development is characterized by pronounced creativity and diverse perspectives. Centuries of foreign domination and shifting geopolitical alignments contributed to a culture of survival that encourages unconventional problem-solving. Financing remains the principal challenge for the Polish games industry. Poland transitioned from Soviet satellite status in the early 1990s to European Union membership in 2004, and the industry shows continued optimism about the future.
Rosinski believes this creativity has to do with his country's centuries-long history of being dominated by foreign powers, and of being at times closer to the West or to the East. Until the Berlin Wall fell and the Eastern Bloc disintegrated in the early 1990s, Poland was a Soviet satellite state without free elections. But since 2004, Poland has been a member of the European Union.
There was always this problem of fighting against someone and surviving. So when you fight and survive, you have a special gene that means you have to do things differently to survive. You have to hide. You have to think of different ways of doing things. And this specific gene, it stayed with us. I believe that," said Rosinski.
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