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| Name | Title & Company | Describe your expertise in one sentence |
|---|---|---|
| Andy Phelps | Professor, University of Canterbury and American University | I’ve taught game design around the world for more than 20 years. Ask me anything! |
| Anders Ekermo | Senior Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment | I have been in AAA engine programming for 15+ years, also built, promoted and released an indie game from scratch to PC/Switch. |
| Richard Bartle | Professor of Game Designer, University of Essex | I’ve been working with virtual worlds for 43 years. |
| Kate Edwards | Executive Director, Global Game Jam | A geographer who’s been performing culturalization on many game titles, from Halo and Age of Empire to Mass Effect, Call of Duty, Dragon Age, and many others. Ask me about adapting your games for a global audience, finding your unique career path, overcoming impostor syndrome, building inclusivity into your design, and general questions about the industry. |
| Rabi Afram | Engineering Manager, King | I have been interviewing and hiring QA, Devs, Artists and Designers. You can ask me anything about CVs and interviews. |
| Teddy Sjöström | Lead programmer, Pixel Ferrets | I have made a living developing the same game for ~8 years. Programmer / Designer / Writer. |
| Anton Albiin | Swedish Games Industry | Ask me about entrepreneurship and how to make it in the games industry |
| Henrik Jonsson | Executive Producer, Amplifier Game Invest | Game Scout, Game Programmer, Tech Advisor. AMA |
| Aydin Afzoud | Lead Game Designer, Ubisoft Stockholm | Ask me about AAA-game design. |
| Yoshi van Belkom | Project Tech Lead, Toadman Interactive Stockholm | I’ve been a tech lead and gameplay programmer for 3 years and have a background in tools programming. |
| Lee Kåberg | Producer, Envar Entertainment AB | Production. How to start your company. Investments. |
| Alex Untoro | Game Designer | I am a game designer with a wide skillset. I have worked with teaching game design for several years, so ask anything regarding design or games, and we’ll have conversation about it! |
The Gotland Game Conference 2021 is hosted entirely on Gather.town! If you have a browser, a headset and a some-what performant computer1anything with a discrete GPU ought to be good enough you can join us too us live, in living color, from any part of the globe, May 31 – June 3.