Tommy Palm (Fabrication Games)

Tommy Palm, Entrepreneur and Game Designer – Tommy started programming games for Commodore 64 back in 1986 as a hobby, it continued to be a hobby until 1999 when he founded Jadestone. Since then he has been working as concept creator and game designer on more than 10 game titles including Championship Manager Online, World in War, Karlsson på Taket (mobile), Dirk Dagger and Kodo. During the eight years developing mobile games; his team has been awarded nine international awards and numerous nominations latest IMGA and IGF Mobile. In 2009 Jadestones Mobile department spawned of into a new company Fabrication Games that Tommy currently runs. He is also the CEO of The Game Trail, a new media company that spawned from one of Fabrication Games’ products.

He enjoys teaching in his spare time, writes articles and is a regular speaker at conferences like Game Developers Conference. He holds lectures at The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has been a member of the jury for IGF Mobile, Nokia Innovation Challenge and Swedish Game Awards.