Gotland Game Conference 2019
5 - 6 JUNE, VISBY
Gotland Game Conference
Play, discuss and celebrate!
The 5-6th of June we open the doors to Wisby Strand again, with nearly 40 student games for you to play and with presentations from international experts. This year we are discussing workers rights and career safety in the games industry. Like always, we have a pay-what-you-want Visitors Pass so you can register and come in for free. Bring your friends and family, and help us vote for the best games!
Who's Speaking?
Anton Albiin
Project manager at Association of Swedish Games Industry. Has a strong love for indies, core gameplay execution, personal stories and very black black tea. Talk to Anton about: your design, how to get job in the games industry or just if you need some encouragement.
Richard Bartle
Award-winning game designer Dr Richard Bartle has been involved with MMOs for longer than anybody, having co-written the first one, “MUD”, in 1978. His famous Player Types model has seen widespread adoption by the games industry and beyond, and his 2003 book, “Designing Virtual Worlds“, is the classic text on the subject. In 2010, he
Jens Berglind
Jens is the Lead Programmer at Might & Delight. Apart from code, he also works with game design, producing, and writing. In short – and he is short – he is passionate about weird games and their systems, especially in a social context. He has worked a lot with AI that players invest emotion in,
Henrik Jonsson
Henrik Jonsson loves games, but loves game developers more. After over 20 years as a games and graphics programmer, having made AAA games like Need for Speed and Anachronox, slot games for casinos, TV-based games for Bingolotto and Robotic Simulators, and resurrected the Swedish IGDA chapter, he’s now at Goodbye Kansas Game Invest, where he
Philip Karlsson
I moved to Gotland to study game design and programming 2012. I graduated from Uppsala University (Game Design and Programming) 2015. Since then, I have been working as a game programmer and a system developer in different companies in Visby. I currently work as a system developer at the Swedish National Heritage Board. Aside from
Tom Hedberg
I work as a developer and designer at Thunderkick where we make slot games with a new and quirky touch. The gambling segment brings a unique challenge when it comes to game design since it is a very rigid framework to work in, and you have to get the player to feel like they are
Daniel Gustafsson
Daniel Gustafsson is a Unity developer at MAG Interactive – developing mobile trivia games by day and moonlighting making coffee in the morning (making coffee is still the number one secret on how to be popular among your colleagues). For more than 6 years, from Sweden and South Korea, Daniel’s been focusing on design &
Alex Lusth
After graduation I started as Art director of the Indie game company Lucid Dreams. I then worked as a freelancing Character Artist for a few years before Joining KING as a character artist in their New game studio. My interest is 3D art in general but my passion is characters. Talk to me about starting
Emelie Rodin
I’m the owner of BetterBuilt Studio, a Swedish Card Game Studio, where we build better card games. We launched State of Wonder last July and many of you may already know about me as we are based on the Island! I’m a bit of a card game nerd, but that is not my only interest,
Mike Sellers
Mike Sellers is Director of the Game Design Program and a Professor of Practice at Indiana University. He also teaches an online course in Game AI for Uppsala University Gotland Campus, and is the author of the 2017 text, “Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach.” Mike has spent more than twenty years working in the
Jona Marklund
I’m Jona, a generalist technical artist with 10 years’ experience, mainly focused on Shaders, Pipeline Development, and Lighting. Over the years I’ve also been able to spend quite a lot of time working on VFX, Rigging, Tools Programming, and Procedural Asset Creation. Lately, however, I’m really into Character and Creature modeling. If you’re feeling chatty,
Lisa Wackenhuth Svanström
Hi, I am Lisa and I am currently working as a 3D artist at Star Stable Entertainment in Stockholm. My main focus is the modelling and texturing of our horses in the game. My passion in game development has always been 2D illustration, 3D modelling and handpainted texturing and the genra I enjoy playing the
Vilya Svensson
I’m a pixel artist and writer at Pixel Ferrets, where we currently work on the 2D ARPG Secrets of Grindea! My main focus is everything art related and the storytelling craft, which is also what I entertain myself with on my spare time. Talk to me about: pixel graphics, writing, or how to stay sane
Jen Jenson
Jen Jenson is Professor of Digital Languages, Literacies, and Cultures in the Department of Languages and Literacy, Faculty of Education, The University of British Columbia. She is currently co-editor of Loading: The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association and past-President of the Canadian Game Studies Association. Jen has been studying videogames from the standpoint
Oscar Eriksson
I graduated from GAME (Game Design & Programming) in 2016 and am currently a system developer at Fripero AB. I program and help design systems that plan and survey traffic. Both live GPS-feeds with Google maps and the less exciting stuff needed in systems, such as forms. I care about down to earth stuff like
Jessica Price
Jessica Price has been working in game narrative for over a decade. She began her career as an alternate reality game designer, helped launch Microsoft’s Kinect platform, and led the writers’ room for Guild Wars 2. She’s been active in trying to improve working conditions for women and other industry minorities for almost as long
Adam Wrange
Adam is just a big social outgoing nerd. A Combat designer over at The Outsiders looking for your expressive crazy games. He has been doing a little bit of everything, Systemdesign, leveldesign, narrative design, and even cutscene creation in some sense. He is always looking for the games that empowers the player. Having the actions
Andrija Bernik
Andrija Bernik was born in 1985 in Karlovac, Croatia. He graduated Middle School of Electrical Engineering in Karlovac, enrolled and graduated Information Systems at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varazdin, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He participated in five competitions in the field of 3D modeling and computer animation. He won five consecutive first
Dorthe Hove Olesen
Dorthe is founder and director of the consultancy company Stages, and has helped companies build strong organisations, and design robust change processes over the past 20 years, both as an entrepreneur and in managing roles within HR. She has a special interest in helping startups and other fast growing, smaller companies create strong and healthy
Martine Pedersen
Martine Pedersen is a feminist, social worker and trained narrative consultant. She has an interest in group dynamics, games and the learning experience they can provide a long side with the society’s attitude to gamers. Has been supervising teams in a social working context, including student game dev. teams. She is currently using games in
Sabine Harrer
Sabine Harrer is a games researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies, University of Tampere, Finland. Their research focuses on cultural videogames criticism, HCI and intersectionality, and creation-based knowledge making. Author of the book Games and Bereavement (transcript 2018) and a member of the Copenhagen Game Collective, Sabine blends experimental game making
Erik Starander
I work as an Environment artist at The Outsiders studio in Stockholm. My passion has always been graphics and it is fair to say I am obsessed by it. Nowadays I can not go outside without analyzing nature, thinking about how I would recreate a moss shader or a sub surface scattering effect in game.
Josefin Westborg
Josefin Westborg is one of the world’s leading designers in edularps. She has a background in game design and pedagogy and is one of the founders of Lekreativ/Lajvbyrån (the larp agency). In her daily job she meets thousand of students of all ages and runs and design larps for them. She is also a teacher
Teddy Sjöström
I’m a programmer and designer at Pixel Ferrets here in Visby, currently working on a (massively overscoped) 2D multiplayer ARPG called Secrets of Grindea! Once upon a time I made a game about dwarves called “Dwarfs!?” I love the personal feeling of small teams, where everyone can get their sticky fingers on all aspects of
Niklas Eneqvist
I am currently the Art Team Manager at Fatshark, Stockholm, with my main production task being weapon creation for first person purposes. I have roughly 6 years of industry experience with prior experience in the Swedish armed forces. I feel lucky to have been part of the development of 3 titles (War of the Vikings,
Andrew Phelps
Andrew “Andy” Phelps is a professor at the Human Interface Technologies Laboratory NZ (HITLabNZ) within the College of Engineering at the University of Canterbury. He also serves as a Professor of Art & Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He is the founder of the RIT School of Interactive Games & Media, the
Charlie Edmunds
Hi, I’m Charlie Edmunds and I’m currently the Lead Gameplay Programmer at CD Projekt RED working on GWENT: The Witcher Card Game. I have 8 years in the industry so far. Previously, I was Senior AI Programmer working on Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales and prior to that, I was working at several 1st party Microsoft
Fred Ström
Sup! I work as a sprite artist and animator at Pixel Ferrets here in Visby. I love pixel art. Like, a lot. Restrictions and limitations within graphics are my jam. Not necessarily from a technical stand point, more just aesthetically. I also like insects, even tho they are super scary. Sloths are cool too! Talk
Tobias Peulicke
I work as the lead environment artist at Toadman Interactive. My main focus is making 3d assets for environments and decorating levels with them. But occasionally I work with scripting, shader programming and effects. During the past 9 years, I have worked on a variety of games, ranging from casual mobile games to hardcore games
Nayomi Arvell
Right now I work as external CEO at Miltonic Games (previosuly Mostly Harmless Games) while I am studying web development on the side. Before this I studied Game Design and Graphics at Uppsala University campus Gotland (see: Penny’s Farm, Kei and Save The Penguins) My passion is to create an amazing experience for the players
Joshua Juvrud
Joshua Juvrud is a developmental psychologist originally from Redmond, WA. He got his PhD at Uppsala University, where he specialized in research on social cognitive development, including action understanding, face and emotion perception, and VR and eye-tracking methodology. He is also a part-time researcher and teacher at the department of game design at Campus Gotland
Kate Edwards
Kate Edwards is the CEO and principal consultant of Geogrify, a consultancy which pioneered content culturalization, a Board Member of Take This, and is the former Executive Director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) from 2012 to 2017. In addition to being an outspoken advocate who serves in several advisory/board roles, she is a
Peter Stråhle
My current position is Lead and Technical Artist at Might and Delight. I have a bachelor in arts at the University of Gotland specialized in digital art and production and have been working in the game industry since 2006. I have professional experience both as a Lead Artist, Technical Artist and Designer. In game development,
Rasmus Lindgren
IT-consultant at day and asleep at night, as it should be. I do tinker with graphics, code and design on the side whenever the opportunity arises. I work in IT now but my years at University were spent on the Game Design and Programming program at Campus Gotland. There I got to make some pretty
Rabi Afram
My name is Rabi Afram and I work as a Dev Manager and test lead for Candy Crush Saga at King. I have worked on PC, Console and Mobile and through the years I have learned all about designing and developing for the player rather for yourself. I want you to take your target audience
Danielle Unéus
Danielle Unéus is the Chief Operating Officer and producer at the Visby-based game studio Eat Create Sleep, where we create games to explore tough questions through play. Danielle’s expertise lies in using games as a tool for problem-solving, developing with a target audience in mind, and team communication. Her previous work includes a game to