With the ongoing COVID19 situation Pocket Gamer Connects went digital, and so did my talk on effective prototyping. It was interesting that conferences have turned into webinar style allows for interactions with attendees through chats and follow ups on other software. Great to catch up with loads of people, I miss them and looking forward … Continue reading Talk at Pocket Gamer Digital – April 2020
This month I gave a 2 weeks game design 101 course at Future games in Stockholm. Future games is the second best game development school in the world, and it was my absolute pleasure to become a course leader for game design at the school. Due to the COVID19 pandemic, this was also the first … Continue reading Game design 101 course at Future Games – Stockholm March 2020
Always a pleasure to speak at White nights, did a presentation on effective prototyping that can be applied to a wide variety of projects across platforms
2019 is a year where the industry is pivoting. From subscriptions becoming common place, to the death of loot crates to the launch of streaming services to the sunset of the current generation of consoles, the industry is changing yet again and this was the year of preparing for an exciting future. Also a lot … Continue reading Fawzi Mesmar’s Top 15 games of the year 2019
For the second time this year, I get to help out gaming start ups and independent developers realize their visions by participating in mentoring sessions about game design for loads of companies in Poland and Eastern Europe as part of the Google Start ups accelerator program.
Today I wrapped up filming the video segments of a 5 week game design course in Arabic based on my book in collaboration with the wonderful people at Edraak. hope it benefits aspiring developers from the region. Edraak is an NGO, the course will be available for free at a later date. Will post links … Continue reading Game design course filming at Edraak, Jordan, September 2019
Google runs an incredible initiative in which a competition is available for indie companies from South America, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. They apply to be flown to the google offices in Singapore to receive one week intensive mentorship from 30 industry experts and googlers. Out of 1700+ applications, 30 companies were selected. … Continue reading Google indie accelerator – Singapore – July 2019
Rami Ismael has put together a hell of an event. The idea is to have information available on game development for people all over the world in their language. Gamedev.world is an event that is completely online, streamed live as game developers give talks in their native language that is simultaneously translated to 8 different … Continue reading GameDevWorld June 2019
Had a great time meeting the local Italian game dev scene in Rome, meeting the students and the faculty as well as play a whole lot of old games in a very impressive retro game show. I did a talk on game design inspiration and how we motivate designers at king to keep on doing … Continue reading Level up Rome, May 2019
First time at game dev days as well as first time in Estonia and I was blown away by both, loved the vibe of the city and the dev scene and was thoroughly impressed! I did a talk about game design inspiration as well as a panel on the sins of game designers, I'm really … Continue reading Game Dev Days, Tallinn, April 2019
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