This year's FÍS Games Summit will be held at Portershed a Dó on Market Street, Galway on Friday, April 5th, 2024.

About FÍS Games Summit:

FÍS Games Summit 2024 is the fourth annual event hosted by Ardán, supported by Screen Ireland, Gréasán na Meán, IMIRT, WRAP, Creative Europe Media Desk Ireland, ATU Galway, and Northern Ireland Screen.

The goal of the summit is to help foster growth and success in the Irish games development community by providing developers on the island of Ireland with a unique opportunity to engage with talks and presentations that will help them in their own careers.

FIRST SPEAKER:

About Mark Brown:

Mark Brown is the creator of Game Maker’s Toolkit: a highly regarded YouTube series about game design, with over 1.5 million subscribers. Mark is also a professional design consultant, gives guest lectures around the world, has run seven successful game jams, and has contributed to publications like EDGE Magazine, Wired, and Polygon.

Check out Game Maker’s Toolkit on YouTube: Game Maker's Toolkit - YouTube

Learn more about Game Maker’s Toolkit: Game Maker's Toolkit – The secret genius of game decesign (gamemakerstoolkit.com)

SECOND SPEAKER:

About Gregorios Kythreotis:

Our second speaker for #FÍSGamesSummit 2024 is Gregorios Kythreotis is a Cofounder and Director at Shedworks. He studied Architecture at the Bartlett and was Creative Director on Sable. He has also recently released a Design Works of Sable, filled with sketches, production imagery and thoughts on development of the project.

Greg will present on “The Art of 'Sable': Imperfection, Limitation and Worldbuilding through Visual Design”

THIRD SPEAKER:

About Chella Ramanan

Chella Ramanan is a Writer/Narrative Designer and Co-Founder of 3-Fold Games, the studio behind the BAFTA-nominated indie game 'Before I Forget'. She is the director of the studio's second game, Windrush Tales. Chella is also a Senior Narrative Designer at Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.Chella's career is committed to telling stories that elevate marginalised perspectives and challenge the accepted default.

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More exciting speakers will be announced over the coming weeks so watch this space!

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