Ian Higton is an GMA award winning streamer who has been working as a video producer for Eurogamer.net for the last 13 years and during that time, he has created countless videos about video games. From interviews with big names in games like Ken Levine and Nolan North through to hosting on-stage live streams at […]
It is a great pleasure to welcome our next Konsoll speaker, Zi Peters from Dambuster Studio! Zi Peters has sixteen years experience working in the games industry, and is now currently serving as Lead Combat Designer at Dambuster Studio. He has previously held design roles at Frontier Developments, Creative Assembly and Sumo Digital, contributing to […]
Zi Peters has sixteen years experience working in the games industry, and is now currently serving as Lead Combat Designer at Dambuster Studio. He has previously held design roles at Frontier Developments, Creative Assembly and Sumo Digital, contributing to titles such as Disneyland Adventures, Halo Wars 2 and Hitman 2. Most recently he was the […]
Konsoll is so happy to welcome back Dan Thronström from Amplifier Game Invest! Dan has more than 19 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 & […]
Emmy-winning composer Nainita Desai (Tales of Kenzera: Zau, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Immortality, Telling Lies) takes us inside her creative process for crafting music that moves with the player. Through stories, sound, and examples from her recent games, she explores how music can express emotion, shape narrative, and connect players to the heart of a story – turning every score into a living, breathing part of the game world.
Over 18,000 new games were released in 2024. More than 90% of these new products failed – the reason is more often than not a lack of understanding of product / market fit and specific consumer needs. The essential truth is that it’s easier to make the right product for the market than it is to find a market for your product. To do so, the creative efforts need to align with a commercially viable outcome from the earliest stage of production.
This session looks step by step at what questions you should ask at what time in the lifecycle, and how research and data provide actionable insights to game design to ensure it has the right player segment focus. This will build a firm foundation for your commercial strategy, enabling direction for your go-to-market plan, and help optimise your live service roadmap.
Session Takeaway
* Alignment of Creative Vision & Commercial Realities
* A unified brand perception unites all teams behind one vision/ direction
* The game and marketing communication are aligned on the same audience and address key player motivations and benefits
When game designers get together to talk about their craft, conversation tends to focus on what’s happening inside the game. But what about what happens beyond the screen? In the real world, our players might be sitting in their bedroom, holding a controller while on voice chat with their friends around the world. They might be wearing a VR headset while trying to avoid hitting the furniture in their cramped living room. They might be standing in crowded public transport, holding on to their smartphone with one hand and keeping half an eye out for their stop. They might be holding on to their portable console with the sound off to avoid waking their sleeping baby, ready to drop the game at a moment’s notice. These are a few examples of what we can call the context for play.
In this talk, Sofia Romualdo will draw on her experience designing videogames across platforms, from PC and console to VR and location-based games, to consider how the context of play impacts game design, from considerations, to limitations and opportunities.
Join Reese Wright, Stephen Hey, Meg Clarke, and Vivy Zhao as they chat about funding challenges over the past 12 months and potential opportunities for the next 12. Hosted by Dr. Satish Shewhorak.
What does it take to have a decade plus career in games? A lot of luck, sure, but there are definitely tips and tricks you can learn along the way! Come to this koldtbord of game development knowledge from the perspective of a technical artist, likely endure some bad jokes and maybe learn something along the way.
Join accessibility consultant and disabled gamer Elisabeth Sivertsen (Arevya) for a workshop on accessibility in games, inspired by Microsoft’s Inclusive Design principles.
This workshop will explore how to identify barriers, brainstorm accessible solutions, and understand how inclusive design can enhance both player experience and creative vision. You’ll leave this session with concrete tips and practical tools for making every part of game development more accessible.
The workshop fits for designers, programmers, artists, production and QA teams, and social media managers. This session is your chance to learn how small accessibility choices can make a big impact for both players and your studio.
Born in Oslo, moved to the countryside. Business and economy background. Advisor for music rights licensing in online and media services. Started working for TONOs market department in 1994, moved to the new online department in 2000.
Animator Aslak Helgesen will lead you through the process of capturing motion capture data with inexpensive tools, how they can be edited in Blender and bringing these animations into Unity. Follow along or participate in recording and editing your own motion capture performance.
This workshop will give you a starting point to set up your own inexpensive motion capture pipeline.
This talk gives us an introduction to how behavioral economics can help us understand player motivation, decision-making, and in-game social dynamics. We’ll explore how incentives shape player behaviour, why certain systems encourage cooperation or conflict, and how these insights can guide more thoughtful game design.
Humans and creatures are dominant components of video game casts. Though it might seem that there is a great distance between such characters, an understanding of basic biological references allows artists to find the design connections between them. Stuart Sumida will review the strategies for artist development he has employed to do so at such studios as Blizzard, RIOT, Guerilla, DreamWorks, and Disney Feature Animation.