Talks conference

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Matthijs Dierckx is a composer and sound designer for games, currently working on the procedural RPG Unexplored 2. He’s the former founder and publisher of Control, the Dutch game development magazine and conference. Dierckx started working in the games industry in 1998.

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.

Paul Deetman is co-founder and managing director of the game developing studio KeokeN Interactive, known for the praised Deliver Us The Moon. He is also the co-founder of music production studio Hunchback Music, which focuses on big campaigns, films and game music. Together with his brother, he is running both companies.

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.

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.

Youri is a former journalist and was editor-in-chief at the Dutch Official PlayStation Magazine for 13 years took on editorial positions at PlayStationPure, P Magazine, DVD Extra, TeVe-Blad, and others. He has worked for the TV show Gamepower and was a lead creative for several marketing agencies, where he worked for 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.

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.

Video games producer and part of the industry for 11 years and counting. He started his career at Daedalic Entertainment (Germany), working on classic Point and Click adventure games as a game designer. As a producer he mainly focussed on mobile games at Bigpoint (Germany), Spilgames (Netherlands) and since 2019 at Paladin Studios in The Hague. Games he worked on: A New Beginning, Pirate Storm, Valerian: City Of Alpha, My Tamagotchi Forever, Cut The Rope: Remastered.

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.