INDIGO PROGRAM

Rami Ismail is a Dutch-Egyptian independent video game developer and ambassador within the video game industry on the topics. He was 50% of Vlambeer, organized gamedev.world, consulted on numerous projects, and created various free tools to assist game developers with their work.

Arjan Brussee is a Dutch videogame programmer who works for Epic Games. He is one of the masterminds behind the Jazz Jackrabbit series alongside Cliff Bleszinski and is also responsible for the Killzone series, which he worked on at Guerrilla Games.

Tomas Sala is a solo game developer working on The Falconeer. He is also one of the founding members of Little Chicken Game Company (well known for games like REKT! and Runespell: Overture), which he left last year after 18 years of working there.

Aran Koning, who’s also part of Sokpop Collective, is a Dutch Indie Game developer and a musician who lives in Utrecht. He did his first Global Game Jam in 2012 and has been there every year since. He loves making games with friends and has made the game Please be Nice.

Tijmen is a former student of the HKU. Today he’s a developer who’s responsible for the games Simmiland (2018) and he was also nominated for an award in 2017 for his sword Slice ‘m Up; Bamboo heart. He is part of Sokpop Collective

Simone de Droog (Ph.D.) is a senior researcher at Human Experience & Media Design (HEMD), University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. Her expertise is to research and design developmentally appropriate media products and interventions for children.

Youri was a journalist and editor-in-chief for the Dutch version of the Official PlayStation Magazine for 13 years. He was also the editor-in-chief of the website PlayStationPure and wrote about music, movies and games for several publications like P Magazine, DVD Extra, TeVe-Blad and others. He also wrote and video edited for the TV show Gamepower on JIM TV. He traded in journalism for marketing and was a lead creative for several marketing agencies, where he worked for top clients like Netflix, Fox, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, PlayStation, Xbox and many more. In 2018 he started working at VAF as their first Head of the games department.

Arjan Terpstra is a Senior Content Producer at Cook and Becker. He specialises in video game writing and is currently writing a Pac-Man book. He was also a narrative designer for the RTS game: Blaze Revolutions. He is also the author of four video game artbooks: Killzone (game), Vlambeer (studio), Sonic the Hedgehog (icon) and Final Fantasy XV (game). His portfolio can be found at: www.ranja72.com

Martine Spaans is founder and owner of F2P mobile publisher Tamalaki. Since the start of her gaming career in 2007 she’s been focused on casual games for a female audience (such as hidden object, match-3 and simulation games). She joined forces with partner company FGL and helps them to acquire idle-, board and puzzle games.