Game creation for platforms: PC, Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube / DS / Wii / WiiU, Android, iOS, OSX.
30 years of active work in the gaming industry. Collaboration on over 20 large-scale gaming projects.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7965-6026
Professional experience:
2020 – Nine Rocks Games - co-founder of the studio
2015 – Slovak Game Developers Association – co-founder of the association
2015 – Bohemia Interactive – managing director
2007 – Top3Line – co-founder of the studio
1996 – Cauldron – co-founder of the studio
1993 – 1995 - Gratex – graphic designer and animator
Implemented projects:
2022 Way of the Hunter
- SGDA - Golden BiT Awards 2023: Best PC / Console Game / Best Technology / Developers Choice
2017 DayZ
2014 Cabela's Big Game Hunter: Pro Hunts
2013 Espionage
2012 Jessica's BowWow Bistro
2012 Jessica's Cupcake Café HD
2012 Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013
2011 Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2012
2011 Cabela's Adventure Camp
2010 Reload
2010 Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011
2009 Puzzle Expedition
2009 Jurassic: The Hunted
2009 Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010
2008 Secret Service
2008 History Civil War: Secret Missions
2007 Soldier of Fortune: Payback
2007 The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific
2006 The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided
2005 Knights of the Temple II
2005 Gene Troopers
2004 Conan
2003 Chaser
2000 Battle Isle: The Andosian War
1997 Spellcross
1996 Quadrax
1995 Ballad of Four Horses - video clip of the year 1995
Video recording:
2024 - SK HISTORY (Design, Digital History and Video Games) - The Development of Games During Communism
2023 - Fetishes of the Republic - The Development of Games During Communism
2023 - Gamer Pie Brno Gaming Festival - VisionGame - About the creation of the game Spellcross: The Last Battle
2023 - Gamer Pie Brno Gaming Festival - Twitch - About the creation of the game Spellcross: The Last Battle
2022 - VisionGame FPI: Marian Ferko I (3/3) Nine Rocks Games, DAYZ, Way of the Hunter
2022 - VisionGame FPI: Marian Ferko I (2/3) Cauldron, Activision, Chaser, Conan, Cabela's ..
2022 - VisionGame FPI: Marian Ferko I (1/3) Cauldron, Quadrax, Spellcross: The Last Battle
2022 - Slovak Design Center: 8-bit Exhibition - Marián Ferko (interview)
2021 - SGDA / GameDays: Nine Rocks Games - game studio profile
2020 - ArcadeWatch Q&A: Game Design at VŠMU - Prof. Ľudovít Labík and Marián Ferko
2019 - GameDays Košice Conference: State and direction of the gaming industry in Slovakia
2018 - Computer Games 2, Marián Ferko, AVFX FTF VŠMU
2018 - Computer Games 1, Marián Ferko, AVFX FTF VŠMU
2017 - GVE Košice Conference: Labor Market Needs in the Gaming Industry
2017 - GameDays Trnava Conference : Slovak Game of the Year
2017 - GameExpo Festival: How the state supports game creation in Slovakia
2017 - SGDA Meetup Bratislava: Challenge 1.6.3. | Jozef Kovalčík, Róbert Špoták and Marián Ferko
2016 - GameDevHub Bratislava - Guns that shoot pixels 2016 - GameDevHub Bratislava - Dream Job 2012 - Marián Ferko - "Do what you enjoy." // lecture
Audio recording:
2023 - Modrák & Friends - The Beginnings of Cauldron
2023 - Talkshow Guest Nora Gubková
Print / Web:
2024 - Zive.sk - Infinite worlds, computer characters almost like real ones. How artificial intelligence will change video games (poll)
2023 - Forbes.sk - He was enchanted by the computer in a military tent in Vajnory. His game was the first from Czechoslovakia to be adopted in the West
2022 - DennikN.sk - Important people in Slovakia still don't understand games and demonize them, says game development veteran Ferko
2020 - Pravda.sk - There is no time to play when developing games
2018 - Notes from TVaT Trnava, part 2: Give people values, they will return to you 100 times
2017 - Tiscali.cz - IT'S INCREDIBLE THAT SPELLCROSS IS ALIVE AFTER TWENTY YEARS, SAYS MARIÁN FERKO
2016 - touch.it - An association of Slovak game developers was established in Slovakia
2015 - HNonline.sk - Slovak pros in Bohemia
2014 - HNonline.sk - Slovak Tetris "squeaked" on cassette tapes
2014 - idnes.cz - According to many, the best move strategy. How the Slovak Spellcross was created
2013 - HNonline.sk - A unique game of young Slovaks. It combines paper and tablet 2013 - Trend.sk - Who is who - Marián Ferko 2013 - Bubliny.sk - Interview with Marián Ferko - Cauldron 2012 - Trend.sk - Slovak illusion makers 2010 - HNonline.sk - HN jury: evaluates Lukáš, who wants to work on computer game development
2010 - HNonline.sk - Millions of Americans play our games
2004 - HNonline.sk - Computer game is created as a film
1995 - sme.sk - Ballad about four horses in computer virtual reality. Video clip of the year.
Exhibition:
2023 - Slovak Design Center: 8-BIT Exhibition March 8, 2023 - April 30, 2023
2023 - Slovak design center: 8-BIT Quadrax
Activities:
2024 - Member of the expert committee of the Art Support Fund in subprogram 1.7 Creation of a game multimedia work
2020 - Member of the expert committee of the Art Support Fund in subprogram 1.6.3 Creation of multimedia work
2019 - Member of the expert committee of the Art Support Fund in subprogram 1.6.3 Creation of multimedia work
2018 - Member of the expert committee of the Art Support Fund in subprogram 1.6.3 Creation of multimedia work
2017 - Member of the expert committee of the Art Support Fund in subprogram 1.6.3 Creation of multimedia work
2015 - Co-organizer of the game developers' meeting
2014 - 2020 Co-organizer of the Summer School of Computer Games.
