ZaQ Chojecki
Game Director
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Designer
www.foltest.net |
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Summary
Game director, designer and researcher with 10 years of experience, with a background in film production. Has led creative teams of various sizes and shipped games for VR, PC and Consoles.
Skilled in harnessing the creative power of team members and communicating the project vision. Experience in establishing creative and technological pipelines in order to facilitate the implementation of the vision of the project and keep its integrity.
He has extensive experience in working with people from various backgrounds, managing creative differences and production challanges while keeping the work environment healthy and focusing on practical results.
As an inter-disciplinairy geek, he has practical experience of all aspects of Game Development including production, reaserch, writing, design, music composition, programming and in-engine work. As an intellectual, he strives to ensure that the experiences he creates are meaningful and go beyond mere entertainement.
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Experience
Ovid Works / co-founder, Creative Director, Game Director
2016 - 2026, WARSAW, POLAND
Interkosmos - 2017
Metamorphosis - 2020
Interkosmos 2K -2022
Everdream Valley VR - 2025
Responsible for the direction of games from conception to shipping.
- Translating main pillars into meaningful game mechanics,
- Prototyping of game designs
- Iteration of the concepts, GDD and other documentation,
- Creation of the narrative design,
- Assuring the continuous integrity of projects,
- Mapping out short, medium and long term production priorities,
- Work in tandem with leads, to address both creative and technological challenges,
- Active development in Unreal Engine and other tools,
- Communication of project status with other stakeholders.
Independent / Filmmaker
2008- 2016
”Path to freedom” (2014), “Rabbitz” (2012), “DISNEYMOTIONLAND” (2010), “Unfinished Story. March 68” (2008) - Writing and Direction
“Blindness”(2016), “General Nil”(2009) - First Assistant Director
Writing, direction and production of independent short features, documentaries and video shows and installations. As first AD Responsible for facilitating and implementing the director’s vision for the film during all production phases, by overseeing all production departament heads, ensuring schedule is kept, directing the second unit.
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Ludography
Everdream Vallet VR
2025, META QUEST, PC VR
https://everdreamvalleyvr.com/
A cozy VR farming simulator in which the protagonist uncovers mystical forces behind the thriving nature and his strange dreams.
Interkosmos 2000
2022, META QUEST, PC VR
https://www.interkosmos2000.com/
Accolades: Best VR Game 2023 Taipei Games Show Indie Games Awards
The VR space simulator with Low-earth Orbital mechanics, gamified space shuttle subsystems and a post-space race story.
Metamorphosis
2020, PC, 4-gen consoles.
https://metamorphosisgame.com/
Accolades: SCL Award for Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media, Polityka's Passport Nomination for Digital Culture.
In this first-person adaptation of Franz Kafka’s stories, Gregor wakes up to discover he has been transformed into an insect, while his best friend Joseph is being arrested.
Interkosmos
2017, PC VR
https://interkosmosgame.com/
A VR experience in which you either successfully re-enter the atmosphere or burn up in it, depending on how you respond to conflicting orders from both sides of the Iron Curtain.
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Filmography
(selection)
Rabbitz
Short, 30 min, 2012, production Elefant Films, RTS , Switzerland
Two paintings and only one original. An art expert loses both during one evening in Berlin and has to go through a surrealistic night in order to save not only his reputation.
DISNEYMOTIONLAND
In collaboration with Maria Jeglinska
Short, 15 min, 2010, France, prod, Biennale of Design in Saint-Etienne, France
Roy Disney imagined a perfect city, then his brother Walt came along.
Polish path to freedom
30 Documentary shorts, 2014, exhibition in Bundestag Berlin,Germany, the European Parliemnet, Brussels, Belgium, and in the European Solidarity Center, Gdansk, Poland
A series of shorts about different aspects of the fight for Polish independence from World War 2 until the accesion to the European Union.
Poland – China, 1956
Documentary, 10 min, 2009, Polish exhibition on EXPO 2010, SHANGHAI
How did Mao save Europe from a new war in 1956?
Unfinished Story. March 68
Documentary, 40 min, 2008, production Media Kontakt, TVP, POLAND
The story of the events of March 1968, told through the eyes of the children of those involved.
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