We are so excited to welcome our next Konsoll speaker, Lisa Anderson from Riot Games! Lisa is a Technical Artist with a wide range of game development experience, from AAA studios to indie startups. Her past work includes World of Warcraft, the Blizzard Cinematics team, and two unannounced R&D projects. She currently works at Riot […]
🎟️ Konsoll tickets are here!🎟️ Tickets to the 12th consecutive game developers conference Konsoll 2023 & business day Konsoll Connect are available now! Tickets to Konsoll 2023 🎮General ticket: 950kr 👨‍🎓Student ticket: 850kr Konsoll Tickets General and student tickets will come with a specially designed Konsoll t-shirt!👕❤ Lunch is included in the General & Student […]
Konsoll would like to give a warm welcome to our Konsoll Connect speaker, Des Gayle! Before joining indie publishing labels Square Enix Collective and Fellow Traveller, Des built up a wealth of experience on the development side of making video games having got started over 20 years ago. He has worked with a number of […]
Konsoll is proud to announce our first speaker for 2023, Martin Kvale! Martin is a Norwegian sound designer of Krillbite and Noknok audio. He works with developers all over the world, including in Bergen, so the trek across the mountain is a cherished route. His work includes games like Hidden Folks, Sable, Tiny Glade, Among […]
Konsoll is proud to announce its (link: http://konsoll.org/program text: 2017 Konsoll program) and (link: http://konsoll.org/workshops text: workshop signup). We have so many accomplished speakers and we can’t wait for you to join us for two exciting days of talks and workshops. Descriptions of the talks will be coming in the next few days.You can find […]
Konsoll is pleased to welcome for the first time Tim Garbos to our conference!Tim is a designer exploring slightly awkward interactions between players and games. He’s the creator of award-winning mobile game Progress to 100 and currently working on Keyboard Sports – Saving QWERTY, a game that uses every single key on your keyboard.Tim is […]
We are so very proud to welcome Ryan Duffin (DICE LA) to Konsoll this year!Ryan landed a career in 3D animation after a youth misspent on cartoons, short stories, video games, pen and paper role-playing games and monster movies. The CGI of “Jurassic Park” and “Terminator 2” were religious experiences that started him on a […]
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This 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 5-6 Norwegian game studios pitch their projects in […]
For the fourth year in a row, Konsoll is hosting a student day in collaboration with the Bergen Public Library! We offer not only insight into day-to-day game development with local developers, but also an exciting talk by Ryan Duffin (Lead Artist at DICE LA).The student day starts at 10:30 with visits to a local […]
We are thrilled to invite Joel Bylos, Creative Director at Funcom, to Konsoll! From humble beginnings washing cars at Bislet Bilutleie, to the Creative Director of Norway’s largest game studio, Joel has worked on every major Funcom project over the past 10 years. From Quest Designer (Age of Conan), Lead Designer (Rise of the Godslayer), […]
For the third year in a row we are proud to welcome back Claire Blackshaw from Sony. Claire works as Senior Online Consultant at Sony. She started in the industry as a programmer, moved into design then bounced back between the two.When not programming, playing games, roleplaying, learning or reading she spends her days consulting […]
Konsoll proudly presents Colm Larkin as a speaker at this year’s conference!Colm is a programmer, game designer and board game enthusiast. He’s been making games since 2008, and released his first commercial game, Guild of Dungeoneering, in 2015.Colm is also on the board of Imirt, representing Irish game makers, where he runs a monthly seminar […]
For the fourth year in a row Konsoll welcomes back one of our dearest speakers, Lee Petty. Lee has been involved in video games since 1996 in a variety of art production and leadership roles. Lee has been a texture artist, 3D modeler, concept artist, lighting artist, effects artist, lead artist, art director and creative […]
Konsoll has a close partnership with the Bergen Public Library, and we would like to inform you of their exciting (link: https://bergenbibliotek.no/laering/unityhack text: Virtual Reality Unity Hack), the week before Konsoll. The Virtual Reality Unity Crossover Hack brings together storytellers, artists and Unity developers to collaborate and build original stories for the Oculus Rift. Filmmakers, […]
Konsoll is very proud to announce our next speaker, Martin Fasterholdt (Playdead)! Martin is a gameplay designer at Playdead, where he has worked on the game INSIDE, released last summer. Before this he studied at the IT University of Copenhagen where he wrote a thesis about jumping in 2d platform games. In his spare time […]
Konsoll is delighted to welcome Jake Elliott from Cardboard Computer to the Konsoll speaker list. Jake makes videogames, noise music & artware. When it comes to videogames, he’s known for making nonviolent, slow-paced, narrative games and has been doing so since early 2010. He is currently working with Tamas Kemenczy and Ben Babbitt on Kentucky […]