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Insights, post-mortems, and panels from the Dutch Game Industry.

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Game Production Team Management

Build a better game faster by effectively distributing ownership

John Day, Violet Octoy
Dutch Game Garden / INDIGO (Netherlands)
Level Design Worldbuilding AAA

Building Worlds for an RPG

Farhang Namdar
Dutch Game Garden / INDIGO (Netherlands)
Indie Development Business Game Production

32 Lessons from 32 Indie Devs

Adinda van Oosten
Dutch Game Garden / INDIGO (Netherlands)
Business Pitching

Pitching SPEEDRUN

Rami Ismail
Dutch Game Garden / INDIGO (Netherlands)
Applied Games Educational Games

Behind the Letters: The Making of Letterprins

Annelies Wisse
Dutch Game Garden / INDIGO (Netherlands)
Applied Games Business

The Power of International Collaboration

Anique Mulder
Dutch Game Garden / INDIGO (Netherlands)
team colaboration Branding Pitching Work-life balance Tools

Rami Ismail - 10 Empty Slides (2026 Edition)

Rami Ismail
GSNI Lecture (Utrecht, HKU, NL)
Art Direction Indie Development

The Power Of Paintings

Thomas Waterzooi
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
VR Game Design Interaction Design

Creating the Illusion of Tactility in Metro Awakening VR

Ruben Runhardt
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Business Indie Development Studio Management

Surviving as an indie game studio for 9 years

Philomena Schwab
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
QA Game Production

I love it when a QA plan comes together

Laura de Looff
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Applied Games Game Design

Playfully Persuasive: Designing Change Through Games

Michael Bas
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Art Direction Worldbuilding Indie Development

Big City Bliss: creating the world of Big City Bliss

Carmen van Sleeuwen
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Game Production Project Management

Expanding The Game Producer's Toolbox

Jim Hendriks
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Level Design Art Direction

The Knightling's Outskirts: From Concept to Level Art

Sasha Lewis
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Funding Business

How EIT Culture & Creativity Will Support Your Next Innovation

Susannah Montgomery
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Game Design AAA Interaction Design

Picking Up Things in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Zeke Virant
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Funding Business Diversity & Inclusion

PlayCap: Women Redefining Game Investments

Bibbi Wikman
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Keynote Business

Opening Show with JP & Brendan Greene

JP van Seventer, Brendan Greene
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Art Direction Marketing Indie Development

Making a Game That Stands Out

Ewoud van der Werf
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum)
Steam Marketing Business

500.000 Wishlists: How we found a niche on Steam

Tobias Schnackenberg
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum)
Technical Art Game Development Workflow

Using Tiny Tools to Implement Characters In Minutes Instead of Hours

Ramon Huiskamp
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum)
Level Design AAA Game Design

Using Radial Design To Create Relic Ruins

Daniel Wewerinke
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum)
Art Direction Character Art AAA

The artistic pipeline of the Dragonborn race in Baldur's Gate 3

Luna Wullaert
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum)
Publishing Business

Pacific Drive: Lessons from shaping the publishing portfolio

Matthew Handrahan
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum)
Postmortem Indie Development Art Direction

Machinarium Retrospective

Jakub Dvorsky
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum)
Rendering Technical Art Game Development

Intro to GPU Occlusion

Leon Brands
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum)
Business Indie Development

Business tips for developers

Rami Ismail
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum)
Marketing Business

PR Panel

Alison Beasley, Rick van Beem, Patty Toledo
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum)
Industry Data Business

The Games Monitor 2024

Christel van Grinsven
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Indie Development Postmortem

How I found the one timeline where my passion project didn't die

Celine Veltman
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Marketing Influencer Marketing

10 Commandments of Working with Content Creators

Timo Verschueren
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Business Game Design Pitching

From AAA to III: My Journey Into Poverty

Espen Sogn
Gamescom Dev 2025 (Cologne)
Business

Dumb Ways To Die: 30 Ways to Accidentally Kill Your Studio

Martijn van Zwieten
Nordic Game 2026 (Malmö, Sweden)
Business Mobile Game Design

Launching OSM 3

Jeroen Derwort
Campus Party 2016 (Utrecht, NL)
texturing Substance painter

GSNI Lecture: Substance painter and how to present your work online

Käy Vriend
GSNI Lecture (HKU, Utrecht, NL)
Documentation Game Production

Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be interactive

Robin-Yann Storm
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Narrative AAA

Interview with AAA-Game Writer Arjan Terpstra

Arjan Terpstra
Συγγραφικό Στέκι (Online)
Audio design

Audio Design In Deliver Us Mars

Sander van Zanten
GSNI Lecture (Utrecht, HKU, NL)
Business

The story of building OSM & Gamebasics studio

Jeroen Derwort
GSNI Lecture (Utrecht, HKU, NL)
Internships Interviews Portfolio Recruitment Resume

How to prepare yourself for internships & interviews

Sacha Blom, Julia Seifert
GSNi Lecture (Utrecht, HKU, NL)
Porting Programming Consoles

Porting Your Game To Console

Andreia Shana Gaita
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Godot Engine Programming

We Released A Game In The Godot Engine And It Was Great

Adriaan de Jongh, Franz LaZerte
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Game Design Student Project Marketing Publishing

GSNI Lecture: The Art of Silly Game Mechanics & Here Comes Nico

Stijn van Wakeren
GSNI Lecture (Utrecht, HKU, NL)
Career Advice

Grains Of Salt, Advice To Start In The Games Industry

Nick Post
GSNI Lectures (Utrecht, NL)
UX Design Tools Design

What do we have to unlearn to improve the UX of our tools?

Robin-Yann Storm
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Hilversum, Beeld en geluid, NL)
Business

Speedrunning A New Studio

Joost van Dongen
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
General

Dutch Game Mentors: A Mentor Network To Level Up The Dutch games Industry

Jeroen Derwort
Dutch Game Day 2024 (Museum voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum)
Business

From Attic Room to Skybox: Building Gamebasics Studio

Jeroen Derwort
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
Business

Rami's Talk

Rami Ismail
INDIGO 2025 (Rotterdam, NL)
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