Speakers

Charles Cecil MBE has been writing adventure games for over 40 years.

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Chella is a narrative designer, the director of upcoming Windrush Tales. She is also senior narrative designer on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora at Ubisoft Massive.

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Francisco has been making adventure games since 2001. He began making games professionally in 2014 with A Golden Wake, followed by Shardlight and Lamplight City.

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Since 2006 Tom has led narrative development on games including Subnautica, Talos Principle, FTL and The Swapper. He is currently wrapping up Talos Principle 2, and developing an unannounced, first-person RPG.

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Khan has written and/or directed game voiceover scripts at studios in four countries, for projects ranging from free-to-play to AAA.

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Alexander has worked on localisations of Return to Monkey Island, Kentucky Route Zero, Broken Sword 5, Thimbleweed Park, Hollow Knight and more.

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After spending a few years focusing on YouTube and food banks, David has taken his experience as a creator and an organiser and begun developing games for Spiral Studios. Using art to tell stories that represent and inspire marginalised youth. 

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Alongside teaching at NYU, Clara is a game writer and narrative designer for commercial games with her company Fiction Control.

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Besides founding BUG Lab, which has become the centre of İstanbul's indie game scene, Güven is also running the Game Design academic programmes at Bahcesehir University.

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In addition to being the Creative Director of Cultic Games, Can also teaches Game Design in the Digital Game Design Department of Bahcesehir University.

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Seoirse Dunbar is the creator  of the Adventure Games Podcast which was voted in the top ten podcasts for the People's Choice Podcast Awards under Games & Hobbies in 2023. Seoirse has interviewed  developers such as Charles Cecil, Tony Warriner and Roberta and Ken Williams for the podcast. Seoirse also sponsored AdventureX 2022 through the podcast and he interviewed Tony Warriner live at Reboot Develop Blue in Dubrovnik in April 2023.

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Tony is a co-founder of Revolution Software, designer and programmer on Beneath a Steel Sky and Broken Sword. Currently creating Metroid-Adventure game entitled Wormhole Dungeon.

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Charlotte previously worked on AAA games at companies such as Sumo Digital (the Doctor Who Adventure Games), Rare (Kinect Sports 2), EA (Harry Potter Kinect) and Tt Games (The Lego series). She founded Cave Monsters in late 2018 and launched her first solo developed adventure game, Lord Winklebottom Investigates, in 2022.

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After pursuing a midlife crisis during COVID, Tom has found himself three years later with one self-published adventure game under his belt (Lucy Dreaming), and another in the pipeline.

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Sagar is a writer and narrative designer, currently responsible for the story and fictional universe of Helldivers 2 (upcoming). Previous game credits: As Dusk Falls and the Imbellus game-based assessment.

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Marina is a doctor-turned-game developer. She wrote and designed the BAFTA-nominated game about dementia, We’ll always have Paris, after becoming interested in representing diseases accurately and sensitively in games.

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A writer-director who has worked on over 150 pieces. Christopher’s VR piece “The Werewolf Experience” is in festivals. Cirque du Soleil called him “A huge asset to the creative process.”

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Alasdair is the regular host of AdventureX: an award-winning stand up comedian, a children's novelist & game writing dilettante.

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Giles (Assassin's Creed Mirage, Horizon Forbidden West, The Spectrum Retreat) is among the UK's most experienced writers for video games, having worked on more than 50 titles over the past 16 years, including blockbuster ‘AAA’ productions, a plethora of indie games, and multiple award-winning projects.

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Samantha is an actor acclaimed for their performances as Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3 and Thomasina in The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (long listed for Performer in a Leading Role, 2023 BAFTA Games Awards).

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Former games and tech journalist, current games writer for games like Sunless Sea and The Long Journey Home, currently working on the vampire RPG Nighthawks.

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