Sergey Syskin

About

Sergey Syskin is an art director with 19 years of experience in the games industry. Originally from Pavlodar, he now works in Astana. He started out with GTA mods and early 3D experiments, then rose from artist to art director, leading the visual side of dozens of projects.

The flagship project of Lipsar, the studio where he is art director, is “Sparta 2035” — a turn-based tactics game in the spirit of XCOM and Jagged Alliance, releasing internationally as Warhounds. At AI & Digital Bridge 2026, Syskin runs the workshop “AI without the hype: putting it into PC game development” and sits on the pitch-zone jury for the GamePreneurs accelerator and the GenAI Game Jam final; a year earlier he judged the GameDev pitch-and-roast at GCA Conf 2025 in the same capacity.