Konsoll would like to give a warm welcome back to Dan Thronström! 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, […]
We are very pleased to welcome our next speaker to Konsoll, Anguel Roumenov from Voracious Games! At 13, young Anguel decided he was going to make games and installed Game Maker 2. A few years later, teen Anguel enrolled in a community college to learn 3d modeling and fell in love with the process of […]
It gives us great pleasure to welcome our next Konsoll Connect speaker, HaZ Dulull! HaZ started his career in Video games before moving into Visual Effects, and then later transitioning over to Directing & Producing with his breakout feature film THE BEYOND, the indie sci-fi was released in 2018 and was number 2 in the […]
Konsoll is proud to announce our next speaker for both Konsoll and Konsoll Connect, Nina Adams! Nina Adams has had an eclectic and varied career path. From circus performer to Operations Director, and everything in-between. Nina joined Auroch Digital in 2015 as the Office Manager and over the years has worked across the breadth of […]
SAVE THE DATE! Game developers conference Konsoll 2018 will be taking place 1.-2. 11.2018 in Bergen, Norway. This year we’re hosting Konsoll at the wonderful Grand Hotel Terminus.Follow us to stay tuned for further announcements of the awesome lineup of speakers this year!
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 […]