Mentors

Programming:

Petras Malinauskas

• Working on Unity engine;

• Produced a VR game ”Hurl VR” and unreleased digital card game “Streets of Cyberworld”;

• Received “Best Gamejam Game” award in first Lithuanian Game Awards, "Best game” award in Hackergames Vilnius 2016;

• Gave presentations in several gamedev events in Lithuania, mentored and judged multiple game jams / hackathons;

• Produced several interactive installations for art festivals;

Vadzim Varabyou

• Started coding when I was 12. That was 20 years ago;

• Have seen the rise and the fall of many game engines and technology;

• Worked on Shadowrun Online, Aerena, The Godlike, Pigbang, League of Arasaurs, UFL, Hydropunk, Loóna;

• Currently working on Traffic Puzzle by HuuugeGames;

• Have shipped enough games to know how to not fail;

Felipe Wang

• Senior game developer at King in Stockholm;

• Worked on Blossom Blast, and the new Rebel Riders (plus many unannounced mobile games);

• Have used Defold game engine before it was cool

• Studied and worked in the US but now is based in Sweden, but can also speak Chinese and Spanish;

• Traveling, hiking and exploring is how Felipe spends his spare time;

Felix Kerger

• Developer Relations Director at Wildlife Studios;

• Worked at Unity and at King on the internal game engine tech;

• While in university published a textbook about Ogre3D game engine;

• Has been programming for more than 24 years;

• Organized the biggest hobby game development conference in Germany;

Mantas Puida

• Working on Machine Learning Inference Engine with CPU and GPU support across all platforms that Unity supports;

• Helped to make a Unity Metal Tessellation Demo for WWDC 2016, helped to port Unity core and 3rd party middleware to ARM64, has been to other adventures at Unity since 2008;

• Enjoys designing and building early prototypes, technical leadership, and mentoring;

• PhD in Computer Science at Vilnius University;

• Was a teacher and a lecturer for the "Algorithms for Computer Games" course at Vilnius University;

Leszek Szczepański

• Principal Game System Programmer at Guerrilla Games;

• Has worked on many famous games like Horizon Forbidden West, Horizon Zero Dawn, Killzone Shadow Fall, Metal Gear Acid Mobile, Sonic 4: Episode 1, and others;

• A recognised speaker at major gamedev conferences like GDC;

• Got a BAFTA (and multiple other awards) for Horizon Zero Dawn;

• Created an open-world RPG in 48 hours, solo, for Ludum Dare;

Yevhenii Miach

• Senior Unity Developer at Belka Games;

• Worked on many mobile games, including Pirates? Pirates!, Puss In Boots, The BFG, Solitaire Cruise, Viber Diamonds Rush;

• Usually is puzzled with foundational tasks about game architecture and engine technologies;

• Higher maths, algorithms, memory management, and code efficiency;

• Has a visually stunning hobby project ;

Dominykas Kiauleikis

• Indie dev who spent 9 years working at Unity;

• Worked on Unity demos - Bedroom, The Blacksmith, Adam, Book of the Dead, The Heretic, Enemies;

• His first indie title is in early-access:

• Now working on an unannounced 3D city building game;

• Enjoys public speaking, mentoring fellow game developers;

Deividas Krunkauskas

• Game developer focusing on PC game ports to consoles;

• Worked on many major games, such as The Lords of the Fallen, Cult of the Lamb, Before we leave, Hokko life, Rustler (Grand Theft Horse);

• Taught kids at Code Academy and teens at KTU Faculty of Informatics;

• Likes maths and physics!

• Thinks that helping people and sharing experiences is the best reward;

• Can keep conversations with game artists about code;

Alexander Tuzhik

• Gameplay programmer at Paradox Interactive in Stockholm;

• Worked on bigger titles like Encased and Life is Feudal: Forest Village plus a lot of smaller games such as 7 Wonders, Midnight Mysteries, Samantha Swift and more;

• Low-level programming enthusiast - just give him some memory blocks to move around by hand to squeeze some extra performance;

• He uses a wide range of technologies and game engines, has console experience and enjoys sharing it at developer conferences;

Slava Ukrayini

• Partner Engineer, Games SDK at Netflix;

• Previously at Google, Quizlet, and Lyft + lots of freelancing;

• Originally from Ukraine, in the US for 10 years already;

• The University of Jyväskylä "honorable" drop-out, but got a Master's in Computer Science from Kharkiv National University for Radio and Electronics;

David Naußed

• Programmer at Toca Boca;

• Loves academics and education – Student forever!

• Really loves helping other people and loves to solve complex problems;

• Very pedantic about efficiency. Not just code, but also efficiency in development;

• I’ve got zero hobbies – I just code;

Giulio Piana

• Senior Gameplay Programmer at Gameloft;

• Currently in the Gamelab creating prototypes of new mobile casual games;

• Previously worked at Miniclip on 2 multiplayer mobile hit as Lead Client Developer, and Former founder of Broken Arms Games one of the best Italian indie game studio;

• Women in Games Ambassador;

• Committed to design being key to game production;

Maciej Karbownik

• Lead developer and owner of an indie game dev company “Dark Lord”;

• Volunteers as a coding coach for kids and a lecturer for adults;

• Worked on “Regenesis Arcade”, a VR game that in 2018 won the main prize in the“Arcade” category at the VDA2 event;

• Pursued a career as a game dev and as a death metal drummer too, but game dev turned out to be more glamorous;

• Also worked on: Inner Chains, HyperArena VR, Glitchpunk (first fully indie title);

Meilė Baužytė

• Programmer at Expression Games. Started her current role 5 months ago and has been in the games industry for over 3 years;

• Finalist of MCV Women in Games Awards 2023 - Career Mentor; WIGJ Ambassador;

• Previously worked on an in-house engine, a VR project, and helped ensure the smooth delivery of The Persistence Enhanced;

• Worked on prototyping the physics systems for an unannounced AAA multiplayer action title;

Dmitry Minsky

• Co-founder and Studio Head of Flawless Fun Co.;

• Currently working on "Chop Chop Guys" a cross-platform multiplayer title;

• Working in the video game industry since 2011 as both an engineer and business professional;

• Organizer and instructor for Unity development courses;

• Founder and enthusiastic member of a Unity User Group consisting of over 650 people;

Ken Noland

• Has been in the industry for over 25 years and specializes in low-level network programming as well as C and C++ optimizations.

• Currently is CTO of Fundamental Games, a small co-dev company that works with some of the largest AAA developers from around the world.

• Has worked on many games, including such as Ghostbusters VR, Sea of Thieves, and Grounded.

Ryan Ash

• Currently is a lead Unreal developer at MetaGravity, has been in game programming since 2013;

• Currently working on several projects: Edge of Chaos, Hydropunk, etc.;

• Is mostly self-taught and can code in ~5-7 programming languages;

• Worked on UFL and built AI Bot for simulating active player behavior, a tool for merging BPs, and more;

• Can do Game Dev, web full-stack, software development, video montage, and music composing & performing;

Art:

Julius Ragaišis

• Multi-purpose animator with a passion for concept art and modeling;

• Produced VFX for movies such as Vanishing Waves, Attraction;

• Created layouts and animations for award-winning shorts - Junction, Running Lights;

• Worked on teasers, trailers, VR, games, art installations, and all kinds of CGI projects;

• Currently at Estoty, doing 3D and animations;

Gabija Smalinskaite

• Worked on in-game cutscenes, tv shows, films, commercials, music videos, and trailers at Goodbye Kansas as a lead rigger;

• Worked on Small Town Murders, Cyberpunk 2077 - The Diner, Assassin Creed: Valhalla, and many more famous trailers;

• Worked a lead rigger in award-winning cinematics : “Volvo: The E.V.A. Initiative" and Outer Worlds 2;

• Works hand in hand with the rigging team in Goodbye Kansas to develop tools for rigging and other departments;

• Provided cfx (nCloth) in Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden - Farrow Reveal Trailer and Overkill’s The Walking Dead character reveal trailers;

Julius Liubertas

• 3D generalist (modeling, texturing, rigging, optimizing) working as an animator at Snowprint Studios;

• Worked on many mobile games including Warhammer40k: Tacticus, Rivengard, Legend of Solgard, Monster Buster;

• Alumni of iAnimate and Anomalia CG schools;

• Loves quick prototyping and getting things done, participant of many Hackathons and Game Jams;

• Experienced game master of Dungeons&Dragons;

Natalia Rebrova

• Senior UI/UX Designer at Kiloo Games;

• Worked on 10+ games. Some of them are Subway Surfers, Metroland, Minion Masters. Blades of Brim, World of Warships, X-Mercs, Evilibrium ;

• Formal training in media design and special psychology, strong interest in neurobiology and human behavior;

• Passionate about creating compelling, yet seamless experiences that resonate emotionally with the users;

• Spends spare time playing jazz on piano and drums and designing the branding and packaging designs, illustrations and animations;

Nataliia Popova

• 2D artist with leadership and art management experience;

• Worked on multiple casual games for Big Fish Games;

• Enjoys supervising and long-term planning of art pipelines for large games;

• Taught computer graphics design;

• Passionate for comics, art and concepts for animation;

Jonas Balakauskas

• Lead Animator/Rigger at NIEKO;

• Worked on games, VR projects, and live interactive installations - Everdale (3D Modeller), Crystal Raiders VR (Animator, Rigger), Bloody Sunday VR (Animator, Mocap Director), Baltų Žemės (Producer, Designer), Colour Wall (Vilnius Light Festival 2020, interactive installation);

• BA Hons 1st class, Graphics for Games, Bradford University, class of 2016;

• Larp and Taijutsu;

Daniel Martin Nielsen

• Sound artist, composer, saxophonist

• Worked on audio for bigger titles such as Wolfenstein: Youngblod, Back4blood as well as minor indie titles Scarlet Republics, Bible X, Ozzy

• Once won the Nordic Game Jam, that was pretty cool

• Made a game called Creaper inside of audio software Reaper

• Plays around 200 saxophone gigs per year

Oksana Bondarenko

• 2D artist with experience in concept art and illustrations, based in Wrocław;

• Worked on console, desktop and mobile games such as Sea of the Kings, 100 Doors - Escape from Prison, HammerHelm, Junk Punk Racing, Ink Tail: Color Story Puzzle;

• Now mastering my 3D modelling skills with Blender and ZBrush;

• Made my way into the games industry by self-learning and practice;

• Studied veterinary medicine and worked on a pig farm in Denmark;

Alex Bobyr

• 3D Artist at Rage Quit Games;

• Worked on commercial design at Samsung, games and did freelance;

• Artstation;

• Master's degree in Economics and Business;

Arvydas Brazdeikis

• Senior UI/UX designer with a decade of experience in the gaming industry;

• Experienced in various creative fields, including UI/UX, 2D and pixel art, motion design, and cinematic editing;

• Worked on Dragon Age: Keep, Mass Effect N7HQ, Jurassic World Evolution 2, and the upcoming Warhammer: Age of Sigmar strategy title;

• Passionate about video games, human-centric approach, and graphic design;

• A public speaker on topics concerning UI pipelines, design theory, and rapid prototyping;

Kristina Kuosaitė

• 2D Artist at Sneakybox for 8 years;

• Has a background in fine art and stumbled into game development by a stroke of luck;

• Produced game art, UI, and animation for various games on different platforms (mobile, desktop, consoles);

• Worked on the Atari Recharged series;

• Proud of having a wide range of skills which makes her a true generalist;

Eglė Jovaišaitė

• Lead 3D artists at Ignition Immersive;

• Has worked in VR, AR, and XR for over 4 years;

• Completed a Master's degree in Virtual Reality. Later enrolled in a mentorship program where she met fantastic mentors, moved to Australia, and finally landed a job;

• Extensive experience in mentoring juniors in 3D and project management, and taking care of the culture side (various events, team building);

Vilius Petrauskas

• Freelance Senior concept artist artist who has worked with worldwide famous studios like Marvel Studios, and Universal Pictures International Entertainment;

• He has worked on huge productions, such as "Jurassic World 2", "Captain Marvel" and games like "Total War: Three Kingdoms" or "Total War: Warhammer";

• He contributed to the "Anthem" cinematic with Neil Bloomkamp;

• One of his most recent contributions was the incredible "God of War Ragnarök";

Vitaliy Ischenko

• More than a decade of experience in game dev;

• Creator of one of the biggest Nintendo communities in Ukraine - UA Nintendo Family;

• Currently working as a concept artist at “The Farm 51”;

• Loves making games on game jams; In 2020 together with a team took 1st place on Global Games Jam in Ukraine;

• Graduate from National Art Academy with a Masters Degree in art;

Kateryna Babych

• Working as a 3D Environment Artist at Polyart studio;

• Love creating stylized props and environments;

• Bachelor of Architecture (Kyiv, KNUCA);

• Graduated GameDev Camp, check the team's game;

• Achieved a Rank A certificate at Rookie Awards 2023;

• Prior experience in customer support within internet and telecommunication companies;

Danyil Vorobiov

• GameDev Camp Season 3 Alumni, Team Lead, 3D Artist and Game Designer at E.S.I.C, working on "Jade Masquerade";

• 10 years in 3D Art for games, worked on number of hyper-casual titles;

• Self-taught Game Designer and 3D Artist working on first commercial projects;

• Passionate about stylized art and unexpected twists in game ideas and design;

• Worked as a mentor on courses on 3D Art for kids;

Production & Game Design:

Alina Brazdeikene

• Head of Production for multiple games - Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Aftermath, Time Loader and more;

• Also worked on: Simpsons: Tapped Out, Nitro Nation: Stories, Escape Alcatraz, The X-Files: Deep state;

• Member of Estonian Screenwriters Guild;

• Create a full-scale writing room for a mobile game to perform on the same level with a world-famous TV show;

• Awarded by London School of Liberal Arts as a screenwriter of a short film;

Ranko Trifkovic

• Old and wise;

• Worked on more than 50 indie titles;

• Mentored over 100 individuals, guiding them into the gaming industry from "I have some skills" to "I got the job!";

• 11 of my game writing students reached over 1 million readers each;

• Always invited to speak at European conferences such as GIC Poznan, GG Kiyv, GDS Prague;

Slava Lukyanenka

• Worked in production or helped to direct multiple games - Cyberpunk 2077, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, World of Tanks, Hydropunk, Cognition Method, and more;

• Proud mentor of several indie teams;

• Founder of "Holistic Game Production" community;

• Often speaker at some of the top game development conferences;

• Now focused on helping indie teams be successful;

Christina Begerska

• Experienced producer with 2 master's degrees in banking and finance & creative marketing;

• Worked on many desktop and console titles, including Arktika.1, Metro Exodus, Vermintide 2, Darktide;

• Juggled and herded teams at a game development accelerator;

• Worked with people from 50+ countries and lived in 10 countries;

• The weather in your city is probably better than where I live;

Fawzi Mesmar

• Award-winning Game designer, leader, author, and public speaker;

• Has worked on over 20 titles including entries in Battlefield, Battlefront, Persona, and many more;

• Lived in the middle east, New Zealand, Japan, and Europe working for companies such as Ubisoft, EA, Activision Blizzard, Gameloft, and Atlus (SEGA);

• The author of "Al-Khallab in the art of game design" the first Arabic language textbook on game design;

• Retired e-sports player yet follows the E-Sports scene regularly;

Dmitrijus Babicius

• Indie developer at heart with 5+ independently made games shipped;

• PyroMind, won third place at Game Development World Championship and was selected as Nordic Game Discovery Contest finalist;

• The Final Riddle has been awarded with the Best Lithuanian Mobile Game Award;

• Worked as a game designer at Melior Games, Pepi Play, Sneaky Box ,and Nordcurrent;

• Won numerous prizes at game jams and hackathons: Hacker Games, MIDI Hackathon, AppCamp and SEB Open Banking Hackathon;

Allan Kirkeby

• A creative leader with years of experience building successful products and managing software projects;

• Working with game industry startups, investor relations, and incubating the next generation of game companies;

• Mentor for European Games Accelerator;

• Worked as a musician, game designer, project manager then joined Unity as a CEO of Unity Studios;

• Amateur board game designer with a published game and a few others signed;

Pavel Sudakov

• Head of RnD at Belka Games;

• Previously was the Head of Game Production at Snapchat;

• Started the gamedev journey by founding Bad Rabbit Games studio which produces games for social networks in 2008;

• Main focus - production processes, team building, team comms, and collaboration;

• Passionate about Graphics, Animation, Art, Graphic Design, and UI;

Viktor Levashov

• Works at Miniclip in Lisbon as a Senior Game Designer.

• Worked on Bowling Crew, Gardenscapes, Fishdom and other successful casual and social games;

• Used to mentor at Wargaming Academy;

• One of his mentored teams took the first place in the academy with this project;

Trent Davies

• Senior Game Designer with leadership experience at Coatsink in the UK, with award nominations in VR and at Freeplay 2018;

• Worked on Shadow Point, Jurassic World Aftermath, and Cake Bash;

• Developing a fast paced FPS rogue-lite with a satisfying and fluid movement system, looking to specialise in AI and Combat design;

• Studied Game Design in Melbourne and Cologne before moving to the UK, and started in the industry through developing escape rooms and physical art spaces;

Will De Gregori

• Game Designer with 5 years of experience and the indie spirit;

• Designed Hyper Arcade, Card-Based, Strategy, Story-Driven games;

• Bootstrapped and co-founded a gamedev studio;

• Financed and co-founded the Video Game Museum of Rome;

• Enjoys solving game design problems;

Ramon Huiskamp

• Currently running Roofkat, a small indie studio in the Netherlands;

• Alongside business and management, he does most of the game design and programming on their current project: Escaping Atlantis;

• Has been in the industry for about 6 years;

• Took part in releasing a VR game called “The Red Stare” on Steam and won a few Dutch Game Awards in the student category;

• Solo-developed and released “WarpThrough” on Steam, and spent a while living in Tenerife working on Human Fall Flat 2;

Mantas Banevičius

• Currently is a game designer/developer at SneakyBox with previous experience at Unity as a Junior Test Engineer;

• Worked on “Void Prison” that was nominated for Best Lithuanian Game Jam Game in 2022 and won!

• With a team participated in "United With Ukraine GameJam" in Warsaw and created a game called "B is for Borsch" that won 3rd place;

• Currently working as a game designer, developer, and artist on a game called “Chickenauts”;

Lyosha Davydov

• Founder of and producer, and game designer at Flazm Interactive;

• In the games industry since the early days of Flash;

• Made games for the Web, Steam, and consoles;

• Known for games like Time Loader and the Train Valley series;

Bohdan Sereda

• 10+ years in the game dev field and five significant releases to date;

• Gradually moved from audio and narrative to project management, then to production;

• Currently head of VR Division at CM Games;

• Built the first iteration of a virtual reality business unit as the head of a department with three dozen people and the first flagship title accumulating 6200+ reviews on Steam (Into The Radius VR);

• Has worked on projects such as Into The Radius VR, DUNE II - Reimagined, X-Files: Deep State, and Breached;

Yevhen Chuvychin

• In game dev since 2015, has been a game producer for 4 years, and has been working as the lead game producer at Voki Games for 2 years.

• Began his career as a GD for BigFish, and became chief of the GD department, having over 20 projects.

• Working on Manor Matters since 2019, a free-to-play game with over 1M active players!

• His best skills are focusing on things that matter most, team building, planning, and creating fun games.

Aliaksei Sasnitski

• 9 years working in creative agencies as a creative director: understands creative thinking, creative processes, and everything related to it all;

• 50+ awards at various creative festivals;

• 3 years involved in projects and startups as an independent brand consultant;

• 5+ years of teaching. The main topics are related to marketing, branding, creative thinking, idea generation, and game design;

• 4 years working as a senior game designer on various mobile projects;

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