{"id":320,"date":"2024-05-30T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/?p=320"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:52:02","slug":"samuel-beijer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/jury\/samuel-beijer\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Beijer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IT generalist turned game developer by coincident.<br>I have a background working with legacy IT systems and blue-collar mobile apps. Then by a coincident I got my foot in the door for a job in the gaming industry and started my career at King. Little did I now that meant after a few years when King was acquired by Activision-Blizzard, that I would be (although only on paper) working at Blizzard. The company that I as a young gamer considered as the greatest game makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working with mobile casual gaming for 9 years. Started out at King where I worked on and released Blossom Blast Saga.<br>During my time at King I worked on a number of unreleased games and prototypes.<br>I&#8217;m currently working as Technical Director at Noid which is part of Toca Boca. We&#8217;re working on an unannounced ambitious mobile game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT generalist turned game developer by coincident.I have a background working with legacy IT systems and blue-collar mobile apps. Then by a coincident I got my foot in the door for a job in the gaming industry and started my career at King. Little did I now that meant after a few years when King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jury","tag-noid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}