Ozan Drøsdal is a writer, animator, and game designer responsible for award winning games such as Manual Samuel and Helheim Hassle! He also wrote the dialogue for Bafta winning game My Child: Lebensborn! He co-founded Norwegian game company Perfectly Paranormal that focuses on 2d comedy games with unique gameplay mechanics. He is also quite popular […]
Ørjan Lopez works as a game programmer at Snowcastle Games. For the past decade he’s worked on games of all sizes. He has even founded his own studio, Illumine Games, where he has released several bite-sized projects that are free to download and play. Ørjan loves independent games, and is always tinkering with a passion […]
Stephen’s career spans 28 years of games PR, advertising, product marketing and latterly the role of Marketing Director at EA studio, Chillingo. Although Stephen loves games, he is terrible at them, but has a deep understanding of why people play games and what triggers people to buy them. He is lucky enough to have worked […]
Max Pears is a Senior Level Designer with over 8 years of experience designing a range of games. These have ranged from app chart mobile games, cutting technology AR games to currently AAA games such as Tom Clancy’s The Division and Cyberpunk 2077. Alongside developing these games Max also hosts the podcast called Level Design […]
Former games journalist, Chella Ramanan is the co-founder of 3-Fold Games, the studio behind the BAFTA-nominated indie game ‘Before I Forget’ and narrative lead on Windrush Tales. She is currently a narrative designer on the writing team for a AAA studio. Throughout her career, Chella continues to be committed to telling stories that elevate marginalised […]
Dan has more than 15 years industry experience as a producer and project manager, having led large development teams and game productions ranging from Capcom, EA/Crytek, Warner Brothers to Avalanche Studios self-published the Hunter series. Games include Bionic Commando, Crysis 1 & 2, Mad Max, theHunter. He has a bachelor’s degree in Game Design and […]
Hollie Newsham is a Senior Animator at Lucid Games, where she started her career as a professional game developer in 2017. She launched Destruction AllStars a PS5 exclusive in 2021, that highlighted her passion for character creation and animation. Getting into the headspace of the diverse set of characters transformed the way she approached animation. […]
Robin I Munkvold is an Associate Professor within the field of Information Technology. He has been working within higher education since 1999, teaching subjects within software engineering, project management, networking, social science, databases, game design, game development, project courses, ICT, games and learning and more. His field of research is within ICT, games and pedagogy […]
In mid 1990s, Ole worked as a member in the demoscene group named Andromeda. There he was an active pixel artist. The further study which he pursued was in the field of creative coding and digital media that enhanced his passion for computer science- and graphics. He has worked for Darkworks, Factor 5, LucasArts, Storm […]
Adam Palmquist is an industrial PhDc in Applied IT at Gothenburg University and works as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at the Swedish Gamification company Insert Coin. Palmquist has a background in game-based learning and game design. He is the author of several books addressing the intersection of design, technology, and learning. His research concern Gamified […]
Previously at Ubisoft and UsTwo, Oskar Stålberg is the technical artist turned indie developer behind the procedural generation of Bad North and Townscaper. His past procedural experimentation can be experienced in a series of widely shared interactive web demos exploring different procedural approaches.
Rami Ismail is a Dutch-Egyptian independent games & tool developer with over 20 titles across PC, console, web, and mobile. The co-founder of the influential now-retired indie games studio Vlambeer, Rami worked on award-winning and genre-defining games such as Ridiculous Fishing and Nuclear Throne. His development of tools like the industry-standard dopresskit.com, his prolific & […]
Eduardo is a game designer at Supergiant Games. He joined the team in 2018 where he has since primarily worked on Hades’ level design, combat encounters, and boss encounters. Having made games since High School, he got his start in the industry in 2017 after graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and […]
Harri is a Founding Partner at Play Ventures, an early stage global gaming fund, that has invested in 36 companies since their start in 2018 and who recently launched their second fund with $135M in capital. Harri has 20 years experience in gaming and previously co-founded Rocket Pack, which was acquired by Disney in 2011. […]
Erling Ellingsen is the Chief Marketing Officer at Funcom, leading the team’s responsible for Product Marketing, Sales & Distribution, PR & Community Engagement, and Creative Services. Erling has been with Funcom for 15 years and have launched internally developed games such as Age of Conan, The Secret World, and Conan Exiles, as well as publishing […]
Oda is a sound and music designer working primarily indie games. She’s a co-owner at the Oslo based game audio company Noknok Audio, and one of the founding board members of GAiN.