Talks conference

Adriaan is a game designer best known for the indie game hit Hidden Folks, a hand-drawn interactive searching game, and for experimental games like Bounden and Fingle, which move people out of the normal space of videogames by challenging players to dance, hold hands, and share physical interactions. He also has an awkward signature dance which he’ll perform with every opportunity presented.

Angie Smets is Studio Director and Executive Producer at Guerrilla, a PlayStation Studio based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Joining the studio in 2003, her credits include the Killzone series (until 2013) as well as critically acclaimed action RPG Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) and its highly anticipated upcoming sequel Horizon Forbidden West. Angie is responsible for the company’s general management and direction, and oversees development of all of Guerrilla’s projects.

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.

Bobby Wertheim is the Director of Content for SEGA Europe’s Searchlight team. Bobby is on the look out to meet developers with a consumer focus, a clear vision of what they want to create, thinks digitally first (in terms of content delivery, including communication etc) while having a long-term view of what they want to achieve.

Christoffer Holmgård is a co-founder and the CEO of modl.ai and a co-owner of indie game studio Die Gute Fabrik. He has done extensive research on AI and Machine Learning for Games at Northeastern University, New York University, and the IT University of Copenhagen.

Danar has worked as a freelance concept artist for 2020 Game Of The Year Last Of Us 2 (Naughty Dog), and has taken part in the development of projects at Guerrilla Games.

Dwayne is a DJ and producer, but also a co-founder of The Smash Universe. As a DJ, he has worked with artists like Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. As co-founder of The Smash Universe, he wants to create a synergy between gaming, music, tech and lifestyle.

“With 10 years in the video games industry across digital publishing, analysis and commercial strategy, Jarvis Crofts joined Curve Digital to lead a new team as VP strategic planning. This team was established to add further depth to our commercial operations, content strategy and decision making, with a view to ensure our partners and studios continue to get the best publishing expertise possible.”

Jennifer Schneidereit is an award-winning game designer, programmer and creative director with 15 year’s experience in games. In 2010 she co-founded UK independent studio Nyamyam. Nyamyam specialises in beautifully crafted, unconventional games such as their first game Tengami and more recently Astrologaster. In 2019 Jennifer joined WINGS Fund’s Selection Committee. WINGS invests in indie games by teams in which women and developers from marginalized backgrounds have key positions.

In 2001 Jurriaan van Teunenbroek founded the company that in 2006 created the Youda Games brand. In 2015 Youdagames merged into the bigger Azerion, focusing on Gaming, Publishing, Distribution, and Ad Monetization. Azerion is an international company with more than 800 employees and offices all over the world. As Vice President Games & Content within Azerion Jurriaan gets his challenges in coordinating the teams and creative processes to make and acquire top game titles and finding new markets to sell the products.

Lauren joined Square Enix Collective in 2019, after spending three years at indie studio Hammerhead.
Her background as part of a dev team means she’s ideally placed to bridge the gap between small teams and publishers, helping them organise every aspect of their projects – from budget management to console submissions.
She’s enthusiastic about indies, and excited to facilitate the growth of their ideas and help them blossom into a successful game.

Lennart is co-founder of Triumph where he directed the Age of Wonders and Overlord series. His latest title is Age of Wonders: Planetfall. As studio head, he led Triumph from being a third party developer to self-publisher and now as a subsidiary of Paradox Interactive.

Miranda is CEO at The Smash Universe and has worked at Activision. She has a lot of other experience in the game industry, and is skilled in Marketing, PR, Management, E-commerce, Influencer Marketing and Artist Management. She will be talking more about streaming at the INDIGO TALKS.

Video games have a particular set of essentials that come together to create an experience; from the idea to the storyboard, the technical elements, the engaging visuals, the execution and gameplay, and the right people to make it all happen. I honed my programming skills in the industry for many years but the desire for autonomy and creative freedom led me to establish Abstraction in 2007. We’re gamers making games for our peers, we know how important every detail needs to be. I’m proud to say that Abstraction has become the definitive adaptation studio in the video game industry and is trusted to deliver top-tier IPs across multiple platforms.

René is a video game lawyer at Van Iersel Luchtman (VIL). At VIL he has founded and leads the only full-service legal team in the Netherlands which focuses on providing legal advice and (court) representation to video game companies. For his contributions to the Dutch games industry he was awarded the title “Game Changer” at the Game Bakery Awards.

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.

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

Tim has worked in the gaming industry for more than 15 years with a varied background in product development and production. After previous success at Nintendo, Tim joined Guerrilla’s Franchise and Community team in 2019 as Principal Franchise Producer to maintain and expand the Horizon brand and franchise.

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.

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

Aryeh has been active in the industry for over 20 years. In that time he has filled a variety of roles for a large number of games. Aryeh started in journalism and retail, and went on to work in publishing (Mindscape) and development (Guerrilla Games, Gamious). Now he uses his experience and expertise in AAA studios and startups to help others. As Incubation Manager at DGG and Jack of all trades for the Navy. Besides personal projects.

JP van Seventer runs Dutch Game Garden and has a management background in game development as well as experience in game design and art. Connecting people is JP’s greatest passion and making the Netherlands a leading game nation is one of his dreams. Helping studio’s in their growth and ambition is one of the ways JP supports this dream.

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.