A MAZE. / Berlin 2016: Directory

5th International Independent Videogames Festival in Berlin, April 20 to 22, 2016 – plus extra Family Day.

We’re still adjusting and adding things to the schedule, so keep checking it in the next days for updates!

Hilary O'Shaughnessy

Hilary currently works as a producer Watershed in Bristol. Her background spans theatre, game and interaction design both as an artist, designer, and producer. Most recently, she created Prototype Festival of Play and Interaction in Dublin.

Location IE

Mohammed Odeh

I am a Graphic designer and programmer who is interested in mobile games development

Company Limitless
Position Co-Founder
Location Palestinian Territory

Felix Oesinghaus

Eduardo Olmeda

T M Hasan Özdemir

Gianluca Pandolfo

Organizer / Curator - #Melongamejam
Father of Melonbot

Company Kidsonsugar
Position Indiedev / Webdesigner
Location Weimar

Ansh Patel

Ansh Patel is an interdisciplinary artist whose works range from experimental games, digital media installations, performances and surveillance interventions. He is also a critic whose work has appeared in different literary and academic publications like Arcade Review, Unwinnable and Paste.

Location IN

Laurent Peroy

Managing director : Game IN (Game Industry North, northern France trade video game trade association)
Co-founder, DIrector: Game Camp France (annual video game professionals gathering in France)

Company Game IN
Position Délégué Général
Location FR

Melanie Phillips

Produced Moon make work at the intersection of performance and gaming, sculpting live experiences and adventures that exist simultaneously in the virtual world and real life. We sculpt structures and write narratives often using documentary techniques and focussing on real life events. We're big fans of collaboration so please do come and chat to us!

Company Produced Moon
Position Artist
Location Glasgow//London, UK

Florian Piette

Lorenzo Pilia

Programme manager for A MAZE. / Berlin festival. Also founder of BerlinGameScene.com, organiser of Talk & Play, producer at Maschinen-Mensch (Curious Expedition 2) and outreach manager for Codecks, the project management tool for game developers. Member of the Saftladen Indie Game Collective in Berlin.

Location Berlin, Germany

Mateusz Pilski

From some time i'm trying to create my dream... My own game studio. For now we created one MMO game for Android witch unfortunately had to be shut down, one game called Deep Blue witch should be on steam soon. And last but not least right now we creating our biggest project. Game called Cult witch is an RTS game in witch you create your own cult and fight with cults of your oppponents.

I also like hiking if you want to talk about that :P.

Company Ice Code Games
Position Lead Programmer / Co-Founder
Location Warsaw

Kenneth Plasa

Company University of Leipzig
Position Student
Location Leipzig

Adrien Poncet

Julie Prokof

AP

Alejandro Prullansky

Sebastian Quack

Sebastian Quack (*1982) is an artist, game designer and curator working at the intersection of play, participation and the politics of urban society. Sebastian is a founding member of artist group Invisible Playground and curates Playpublik, an international festival for playful public spaces. He regularly teaches, gives talks and consults organizations on how to engage playfully with the world around them. Sebastian lives in Berlin... Read more

Location DE

AR

Ali R.

Position Game Design

Christian Raters

Company Lyrebird Game & Audio
Position Endboss
Location Berlin

Linsey Raymaekers

Location linseyraym@gmail.com

BR

Bianca Rebecca

SR

Steffen Reichelt

Alice Reicht

MR

Morten Reinholdt

Morten Reinholdt is a skilled game developers, and has worked on many titles within mobile and social games.

Location DK

MR

Morten Reinholdt

Company Apex Game Tools
Position Astronaut

Nils Riedemann

Freelance Web-Developer by day, Game Creator by night. Loves Pixelart, Music, Design and Arts in general. Wearing a lot of metaphorical hats.

KR

Kata Rina

Jason Della Rocca

Jason is a globally recognized and connected expert in the games
industry. He brings his unmatched network to Execution Labs, working
with portfolio studios on business development and corporate strategy.
Previously, Jason consulted with governments of all levels to build
lasting gaming ecosystems, and was executive director of the IGDA for
nearly 9 years. He received a GDC Ambassador Award for his industry
building efforts.

Location US

Tim Romberg

Stephen Rooney

Meh, if you're reading this, you probably know me.

Location Dublin, Ireland

René Rother

Position Yoga Instructor
Location Germany

Ruan Rothmann

Thomas Tarquin Rowley

Pablo Saitua

Company Finishing Move
Position Sound Design
Location contact@finishing-move.de

Alejandro Santiago

Developing games and software since I was 13 years old (yep, there were computers at that time). Also running Iron Mans (3.8kms swim + 180 kms bike + 42 kms run…. yes, all in one go!). Programming in the same way, hardcore style! Always dreaming with pointers, code performance, garbage collectors and all types of nonsense.Software engineer at the European Space Agency and co-founder / developer at 2Awesome Studio

P.S. The only real programming language is C++ :-)

Location ES

LS

Louisa Schiller

Stefan Schmidlin

Tilman Schmidt

Sylvain Schmück

Jennifer Schneidereit

Jennifer is the Co-Founder of Nyamyam a small independent games studio in the UK. She recently co-created Tengami, award winning atmospheric adventure game inside a Japanese pop-up book. Jennifer worked for a number of years in the Japanese game industry, before moving to the UK to work for Rare.

Location DE

Stephan Schüritz

Hi, I'm Stephan, passionate Programmer. I like to dive deep into technical solutions, help people and also love to talk about music and games. This year I'm excided to show off two upcomings games, that I mainly worked on the last years. So feel free to bump me and have a nice chat, about the things that we love.
By the way my favorite genres are RPGs and Stategy Games. :)

Company Honig Studios GmbH
Position Senior Game Programmer
Location Berlin Area, Germany

Almut Schwacke

Company Almut Schwacke
Position Foley Artist | Sound Designer | Composer
Location Almut Schwacke

SS

Simón Schwarz

Stephan Schwingeler

Dr. phil. Stephan Schwingeler (*1979) is a curator, researcher and lecturer. Currently he is research associate at the ZKM | Museum for Contemporary Art. His first book deals with the topic of space in video games and is one of the first art historical publications in the field of Game Studies. His Ph.D. thesis and second book examines the practices and strategies of Game Art and artistic video game modification from the perspective of art history and media theory.
He was the scientific consultant of the Next Level Conference in Cologne and Dortmund. In the last couple of years he also was re... Read more

Location DE

Christian Simon

Location Hamburg

David Smit

Niki Smit

Niki Smit is co-founder and designer of PLAY at Monobanda PLAY. Monobanda aims to explore and expand the boundaries of play and interaction. Working on both commissioned projects and independent projects, they focus heavily on researching and developing news forms of play and meaningful creativity.

Location NL

Hubert Sobecki

Writer at MoaCube. We made Cinders and Solstice. Also meddling in LGBT activism in Poland.

Location PL

Chris Soh

I place spectacles upon people's faces.

Location England

Winnie Song

Winnie Song is a game maker based in New York. She is currently absorbed in making games where players must manipulate a knowable threat and are rewarded for being crafty and deceiving. She also strives for a rich visual life in the world of her games. Her game BADBLOOD has been showcased at festivals such as EVO Indie Showcase, XOXO Fest, Fantastic Arcade, Day of the Devs, and won Audience Choice Award at Indiecade 2015.

Location CA

Selin Sop

RS

Reto Spoerri

IV

Inga von Staden

Marco Stadler

Location Hamburg, Germany

Simon Stålhandske

An avid game jam attendee and the twisted mind behind games such as Setup.exe, NorthSouthEastWest, Cat and 30 other games you have never heard of. Right now struggling to finish master's thesis on crowd games with best worst friend DJScoretrick.

Location DK

Vladimir Storm

interactive/visual/game developer ~ graphic/ui/ux designer ~ glsl/unity ~ webgl ~ pixelart ~ modular synths ~ cyborgs
https://twitter.com/vladstorm_

Company Printed Mars
Position developer † designer
Location Berlin

Shaz Strauss

Company Free Lives
Position Chief Cat Herder
Location Cape Town

Smint Sugarfree

Jo Summers

I specialise in digital production and technology events, and have eight years experience of running a wide range of community and technology focused events, from concept to completion.

Location UK

Alexander Swords

Writing and narrative design.

Company Freelance
Position Writer/Narrative Design
Location Melbourne, Australia

Michi-Hiro Tamai

Company Focus Vif
Position Section Editor - Journalist

Carol Tang

Jay Tholen

I'm a game developer, non-musician musician, and pixel artist from central Florida who married a Frau and now lives in Germany. I made that clown adventure game.

Company Tendershoot Productions
Position Dropsy's Dad
Location Florida, US / Münster, DE

Andy Touch

Ever since he added physics to 100 cubes and watched them bounce around, Andy has been addicted to experimenting with gaming technology. Having previously taught game development to University students, he is now part of Unity Technologies' Evangelism team helping to spread the word of the game engine and to show off what it can do!

Company Unity
Location US

KT

Kristijan Trajkovski

Thomas Trocha

gamekit, blender, c++, lua, football

Company Noname anymore
Position Programmer
Location Düren, Germany

MT

Matthew Tropiano

Sebastian Uribe

Arzu Uyan

JV

Juuso Väätäinen

Alexandre Vaugoux

Company CRI Paris
Position Gamelab Manager
Location Paris, France

Florian Veltman

Florian is a budding French games author focusing his work on interactive narration, who recently made the game Lieve Oma.

Location FR

Jovan Vesić

AV

Antoine Villecroze

Sara Lisa Vogl

Sara Lisa Vogl is a creative squirrel with a passion for latest tech and a VR Nerd since the Oculus Rift DK1. She graduated from College of Communication Arts and Interactive Media (DFI) Hamburg where she runs the course
Creative Computing since '10 2015. Since her studies she´s working in the fields of UX / UI, Communication
& Art in Virtual Reality. When she´s not scanning or printing artworks she´s travelling around with her game Lucid Trips, giving talks on VR or hanging out in panels. You meet her at her monthly VR Stammtisch in Hamburg. She is also an avid skateboarder and has a crush on quantum physics and neurosience... Read more

Location DE

Benedikt S. Vogler

Indie Game Developer (http://caveland-game.com)
& Student at Bauhaus University Weimar

Company Indie Game Developer
Position Founder & Student
Location Weimar, Germany

Aidan Wall

Jordan Erica Webber

Jordan Erica Webber is an award-losing writer and presenter from the UK. Known to many as "Jordan from the Guardian", she's actually freelance and also has bylines in magazines like PC Gamer and on websites like Kotaku UK. Recently she's been doing a lot of talking: giving lectures, conducting live interviews, and agreeing to host award ceremonies when the previous host pulls out.

Location UK

Tobias Wehrum

Location Berlin, Germany

Jonathan Whiting

Game developer based in Oxford. Lead programmer on Sportsfriends, currently working with Hollow Ponds. Countless smaller games: Knossu, Mussel, Craequ etc.

Location UK

JW

Jonathan Whiting

Stefan Widany

Thorsten S. Wiedemann

I totally like doing A MAZE.. My favorite color is pink and when when I become an animal I will become a flamingo. I like people. And also the idea of virtual reality. That's one reason I still dream of the perfect skijump.

Company A MAZE.
Position Founder and Director
Location Berlin

Thorsten S. Wiedemann

Thorsten S. Wiedemann is founder and director of A MAZE.. He produces and curates under this international label festivals, exhibitions and workshops on the intersection of games, games culture, digital arts and playful media. With "A MAZE. / Berlin" and "A MAZE. / Johannesburg" he created two annual international festivals to present independent games culture and playful media. He generates new controversial formats (e.g. A MAZE. Magazine, A MAZE. Pop-ups) and gives room for experimentation, collaboration and exchange. Thorsten established since 2012 the A MAZE. Awards, which goes to unique and... Read more

Company A MAZE.
Location Berlin

SW

Sonja Wild

Pepijn Willekens

Company Screenshake
Position Co-organizer
Location Mortsel, België

Marius Winter

I'm a Game Designer at @studiofizbin, previously made @thatmajorbueno games and now work with @nickmaierhoefer on a game about saying NO.

Location Germany

Sebastian Wochnik

Company Golem.de
Position Editor
Location Berlin & Leipzig

Krystle Wong

Krystle is the pint-sized third of the A MAZE. Magazine editorial team. A freelance journalist and comic book artist, Krystle writes about Asia, intersectional politics, creative technologies, and questions of modern labour.

Location MY

William Zack Wood

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” - Einstein "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." -Niels Bohr "The beginning is near." - some poster

Nicole Wytyczak

Robert Yang

Robert Yang is an indie game developer, academic, and writer, based in New York City. He regularly teaches game development and design within NYU Game Center at New York University, IDM at NYU Poly School of Engineering, and MFADT at Parsons the New School for Design.

Location US

Ido Yehieli

MZ

Mariam Zakarian

Rafal Zaremba

Company Lichthund
Position Co-owner
Location Warsaw

Anne Zarnecke

Company XPLORER
Position Redakteurin
Location Berlin, Germany

Andreas Zecher

Andreas Zecher is part of Spaces of Play, the indie studio behind exploration game Future Unfolding. He’s also running Promoter, a web service for game developers to track press mentions and distribute promo codes. Andreas has been working as a web developer for over 15 years.

Location DE