Joining us for both Konsoll and Konsoll Connect, please join us in welcoming Erling Ellingsen from Funcom! 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 […]
Konsoll is so happy to be welcoming back Dan Thronström from Amplifier Game Invest! Dan will be joining us this year on the investment panels as well as hosting an investment workshop. Dan has more than 14 years industry experience as a producer and project manager, having led large development teams and game productions ranging […]
We are excited to announce our next speaker for Konsoll Connect, Natasha Skult from MiTale! Natasha Skult is the CEO & Creative Director of MiTale, a game development company from Finland focusing on narrative-driven experiences and gamification. She is an active member of the Finnish and international games industry as a Chairperson of IGDA.org. Besides […]
Our next Konsoll21 speaker will be joining us for both Konsoll Connect and Konsoll. Please give a warm welcome to Harri Manninen from Play Ventures! 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 […]
We’d like to give a warm welcome to Ali Cedroni, a Freelance Sound Designer / Audio Editor for Film / Recording Engineer, now living in Norway! Ali Cedroni is a freelance sound designer from Chicago IL, who recently (and somewhat spontaneously) made the decision to quit her day job at Jellyvision Labs, sell everything she […]
A new speaker has entered the game! Konsoll would like to welcome Oskar Stålberg, Artist/Designer/Programmer at Plausible Concept, to Konsoll.Previously at Ubisoft and UsTwo, Oskar Stålberg is the technical artist turned indie developer behind the procedural generation of Bad North. His past procedural experimentation can be experienced in a series of widely shared interactive web […]
Continuing the success from last year, Konsoll has partnered with (link: http://www.casualconnect.org/ text: Casual Connect) and (link: http://indieprize.org/kyiv2017/ text: Indie Prize) to organize an Investor panel, Konsoll Connect, and we are currently looking for Norwegian companies who would like to present their projects to the panel.At the event we will see 4-5 Norwegian game studios […]
Konsoll is very pleased to introduce our next speaker, Johnnemann Nordhagen from Dim Bulb Games. Johnnemann is a 15-year veteran of the game industry. He has worked as a QA tester, in Sony’s Research and Development department, and on the Bioshock series at 2K Marin. He was a co-founder of The Fullbright Company and the […]
Konsoll is very excited to introduce you to our next speaker, Jake Clark from Studio MDHR. Jake Clark is a traditionally trained animator who has worked on Cuphead, as well as various animated TV productions (such as DC Super Friends and Breadwinners).We can’t wait to hear more about the unique- and award winning animation style […]
Konsoll is excited to introduce our next speaker, Charlene Putney from Larian Studios!Charlene writes games for Larian Studios, most recently Divinity: Original Sin 2. She regularly speaks on game writing and interactive narrative at international play conferences, and has taught role-playing games and interactive narrative at both Trinity College Dublin and DIT.We believe that her […]
Konsoll is thrilled to introduce you to our next speaker, Gwen Frey from The Molasses Flood. Gwen is an animator and game developer with over a decade of experience. Most recently she co-founded indie studio The Molasses Flood where she is the CFO. She was one of six developers and the sole animator on their […]
Konsoll is very proud to present our next speaker in collaboration with (link: http://grafill.no text: Grafill), Even Mehl Amundsen. Even is a guy from Oslo who works as a concept designer and illustrator during the daytime, and at night is mostly sleeping and lazy. He likes coffee, good stories and empty sheets of paper with […]
Our next speaker comes from the wonderful Double Fine family, Oliver Franzke!Oliver was the lead programmer of “Broken Age”, “Full Throttle Remastered” and “Day of the Tentacle Remastered”. Prior to that, he made major contributions to other Double Fine games such as “Headlander”, “The Cave” and “Once Upon a Monster”. During his career Oliver has […]
Konsoll is very proud to announce that our next speaker is Anette Ståløy! Anette is working at Dirtybit, the company behind the successful Fun Run-titles for mobile, with more than 100 million downloads all over the world. She’s working with management, business relations and partnerships, PR, App Store Optimization, live-ops – in general all things […]
Konsoll would like to welcome back the talented Gary Napper! Gary Napper is a Game Director working at the BAFTA winning studio Supermassive Games. With 18 years industry experience and lead positions on many Triple A titles including Halo Wars 2 and the Harry Potter series, he is most known for being lead designer on […]
Tickets for Konsoll 2018 are now live and can be purchased (link: https://www.universe.com/events/konsoll-2018-tickets-17243B text: here) and on our homepage!Ticket Costs are as follows:Student ticket: **550kr**Early Bird General Admission ticket: **550kr** (August 1st-August 31st)General Admission ticket: **650kr**The Early Bird ticket period is from August 1st to August 31st. After that, general admission tickets will cost 650kr. […]