The Guide Who Never Sleeps

ISD Group: Viktor Shkurba – Creative Director Andrii Sergeyev – CTO Anton Mykhailiuk – Lead Developer Andriy Grachov– Developer Yaroslava Kravets – Senior Project Manager Dmytro Lykhovyy – Creative Technologist Nina Dmitrieva – Lead Narrative Designer / Scriptwriter Iryna Lipavska – Art Director Uliana Koinichenko – Copywriter Karyna Kutsenko – Designer Alika Samoladas – Designer Serhii Pronkin – Sound Consultant Oksana Gonchar – Creative Consultant Michael Traverse – Strategic Consultant Oksana Chumak – Strategist Oleksandra Dyvnych – Copywriter Oleksii Boiev – Technical Designer Svitlana Mironchuk – Account Director Oksana Solonska – Communications Manager Daryna Vashchuk – Project Manager Hanna Burlaka – Project Manager Dima Kishka – Game Writer / Narrative Designer Ievgen Pylinskiy – 3D Artist / Motion Designer Vitalina Lopukhina – Calligrapher, VikaVita Vladyslav Hvyshchuk – 2D & 3D Animator Art contribution: Masha Reva Polina Doroshenko Maryna Kizilova Deep3dStudio Mira Architects Hushel Architects Ministry of Digital Transformation: Mykhailo Fedorov – Vice Prime Minister for Innovation, Education, Science and Technology Development Valeria Ionan – Deputy Minister for European Integration Anastasiia Khaliieva – Director of the Legal Affairs Directorate United24: Yaroslava Gres – Coordinator Valentyn Paniuta – Creative Director Alina Martyshynyn – Head of Corporate Partnerships Viktoriya Povarchuk – Head of Communications Diachenko Pavlo – Lead Manager Daria Marhina – PR & GR manager Sirenko Angelina – Content Lead Felix Litvyn – Content manager / Copywriter Elina Havryliuk – Tech Project Manager Viktoria Dolyniuk – Partnership Manager Kate Rusanova – Head of Global Talent & Celebrity Relations Microsoft team. EPAM: Viktor Kocherha – Manager Viacheslav Protsenko – Manager Yevhen Husiev – Lead Infrastructure Engineer Volodymyr Kuzhel – Infrastructure Engineer Ivan Kolbasiuk – Infrastructure Engineer Vadym Zagorodko – Security Analyst Karen Florykian – Performance Engineer Mykhailo Hunko – Performance Engineer Igor Beliaiev – Penetration Tester Vitaliy Parichenko – Penetration Tester Vitalii Balashov – Security Engineer Kostiantyn Tomilchenko – Choreographer Oleksandra Lukianchykova – Choreographer, Bliss Dance Studio Maria Prytulenko – Choreographer, Dance Stream Studio Rostyslav Dudchenko – Technical Designer Team of the movie “Pamfir” Vlad Khvyshchuk – 2D & 3D Animation Aliona Danilova – Mocap Producer Volodymyr Bohdanovych – Unreal Programmer Valerii Gorban – Unreal Programmer MUR Art Group: Oleksandr Khomenko – Director Mykola Shmundyr – DOP Mykyta Kruk – Sound Editor GUYS WHO SHOOT: Yevhenii Astanov – Producer Maksym Hurov – DP Kostiantyn Serhiienko – 1AC Mykhailo Yehorchenkov – Gaffer Yevhen Mantyulin – Video Shooting & Backstage Dmytro Avksiientiev (Koloah) – Music Yehor Kaleinikov – SFX Sensorama Lab: Sergii Tereshchenko – Co-founder & CEO Maryna Tymchenko – Chief Product Officer Daria Fesechko – Developer Oleksandr Labuschevskyy – 3D Artist Michael Stelmakh – Project Manager Olena Stulii – Head of Video Production Yurii Belilovskyi – Developer

A website is usually a page. We made one a place. The Guide Who Never Sleeps is an immersive experience created for United24, Ukraine’s official fundraising platform. We transformed a donation website into a real location anyone in the world could walk into — the destroyed House of Culture in Irpin, where eight-year-old Arina used to dance before russian attacks turned it to rubble. Built in Unreal Engine and streamed live through any browser via Pixel Streaming on GPU cloud servers, the experience delivered high-end game quality 3D inside a regular browser tab — on any phone or laptop, with no apps, no downloads, and no gaming hardware. Every step, turn, and light was rendered remotely in real time, responding to the user just as a console game responds to a controller. Inside, Arina leads visitors through the ruins and her memories into a dream sequence where she dances again. Her future is painted with AI models trained on Ukrainian artists Kuindzhi, Delaunay, and Exter, anchoring her vision in the cultural inheritance the war sought to erase. Launched as an experiment with zero paid media, the project guided 6,000+ tours from 57 countries, reached 3.2 million impressions globally, and raised $64,619 in direct donations. Dancers around the world, including Miami City Ballet performers, recreated Arina’s choreography on their own stages.