IndieCade Europe 2016: DES2) Game Design Microtalks

DES2) Game Design Microtalks

The freedom to experiment is one of the strengths of indie developers. During this microtalk panel, indie developers talk about unique design challenges and their methods for solving them. Topics range from procedural world and soundtrack generation to creating games, turning design issues into features, and crafting games about personal experiences

Moderators

Chris DeLeon

Chris has been making games for 20 years. He's worked with startups and AAA games, taught game creation at Georgia Tech, and spoken at more than 10 conferences (including GDC, IndieCade, and SIEGE). Over 90,000 students have gone through his online courses, and he's done countless... Read More →

Speakers

François Alliot

François Alliot is a game developer, he created the studio Nerial 3 years ago. Through Nerial,he has worked on 5 games : Singular (a bubble paper puzzle game), Magic Shot (aprocedurally generated French billiards game), Passengers (a migrant smugglersatire management), Devouring... Read More →

Alex Camilleri

Alex Camilleri is an Italian game designer currently living in Sweden. He developed and released Memoir En Code: Reissue with the goal of exploring autobiography in games. Alex is currently experimenting with new ideas that are historically and culturally inspired by his background... Read More →

Alina Constantin

Filmmaker, artist and game designer at Tiny Red Camel, Alina is the creator behind an awarded animated environmental storyworld for films, games and performances called Shrug Island. She has experience from community organizing to as far as strawbale building. Having spent her life... Read More →

Cristian Diaconescu

Cristi is the Creative Director at Sand Sailor Studio, based in Bucharest, Romania. The studio is currently working on the communist adventure-puzzle: Black The Fall. During this talk, Cristi will discuss about emotion driven game design, inspired by the world around us. Moving to... Read More →

Jeroen Janssen

Jeroen Janssen is a game designer at Happy Volcano. The studio is working on Winter, a narrative exploration game, and paired up with a 'traditional' book and theatre author for the story. In this talk Janssen will talk about how they got the writer from sentence by sentence, page... Read More →

Torreng Labs

Torreng Labs is an indie game studio from Turkey and founded by a team of four people who like creating games and cool stuffs. Torreng Labs published their first indie title Fabric, a first person puzzle game with a unique space-time bending mechanic where you manipulate the envi... Read More →

We Are Müesli

We Are Müesli is an Italian indie game design duo made up of visual designer Claudia Molinari and creative writer Matteo Pozzi. Since 2013, Claudia and Matteo have been focusing on award-winning "unconventional storytelling" games rooted in cultural, historical and artistic topics... Read More →

Thierry Platon

Thierry created his first game, Ranx, in 1986 for Ubisoft before joining Infogrames as head project manager. In 2004, he co-founded BiP media studio (Viking Invasion 1 & 2, Tiny Token Empires), and finally took the head of game production on PC, mobiles and game consoles. Thierry... Read More →

Julien Ribassin

Julien Ribassin is a video game designer, composer and programmer living in Sapporo, Japan. Since he couldn't find any partners to play experimental music in Japan's northern territories, he decided to create them in video games. His most recent project is illumine, a non-violent... Read More →

Friday November 18, 2016 14:00 - 16:00
Workshops Room B (attendance to workshops requires workshop ticket)

Workshop: Game Design

IndieCade Europe 2016