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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.