
Speakers

Charles Cecil
Founder of Revolution Software
Charles Cecil MBE has been writing adventure games for over 40 years.
Sunday

Chella Ramanan
Co-founder of 3-Fold Games
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.
Saturday

Francisco Gonzalez
Founder of Grundislav Games
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.
Sunday

Tom Jubert
Freelance Narrative Director
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.
Saturday

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

Alexander Preymak
Localisation Specialist, Co-founder of Warlocs, Cand. Sc.
Alexander has worked on localisations of Return to Monkey Island, Kentucky Route Zero, Broken Sword 5, Thimbleweed Park, Hollow Knight and more.
Saturday

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

Guven Catak
Founder Director of BUG Lab
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.
Saturday

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

Tom Hardwidge
Tall Story Games
After pursuing a midlife crisis during COVID, Tom has found himself three years later with one self-published adventure game under his belt, and another in the pipeline.
Saturday - panelist

Sagar Beroshi
Game Writer & Narrative Designer
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.
Sunday

Marina Sciberras
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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.
Sunday

Chris Morrison
Founder, Reality+
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.”
Sunday