Advisors
Saleem Dabbous
Studio Director
KO_OP
Saleem Dabbous is the co-founder and studio director of KO_OP, a worker owned game studio. He runs the business at KO_OP and acts as producer on most of the studio’s projects. Saleem is passionate about worker ownership, production methodologies, and workflows for empowering small teams to do great things.
Chandana "Eka" Ekanayake
Studio Director
Outerloop Games
Chandana Ekanayake is Co-Founder and Studio Director at Outerloop Games, and has over twenty years experience as a video game designer and art director. Outerloop’s first game Falcon Age is a sci-fi VR action adventure about raising a baby falcon and reclaiming a cultural legacy from a force of automated colonizers.
Evva Karr
Founder, CEO
GLITCH
Evva Karr is an award-winning designer passionate about co-creating the future of play and building a better, more inclusive creative economy. They combine 12+ years of experience of design and business strategy with player insights and ecosystem building –previously at Activision Blizzard Media, Riot Games, and more. Evva attended the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and studied neuroscience with a focus on plasticity.
Nicolaas VanMeerten
Founder, CIO
GLITCH
Nicolaas VanMeerten is a founder and Chief Insights Officer at GLITCH leading player insights and finance. He is an award-winning data scientist helping developers debate less and design more by focusing on what matters most to players. Nicolaas has served as the Chair of the Games User Research SIG in 2018 and is a PhD candidate with a background in player engagement & statistics.
Victoria Tran
Community Director
InnerSloth
Victoria Tran, also known as TheVTran online, is the community director at Innersloth and resides in Canada. Her job is handling most of the community communications, talking to everyone, and streamlining the flow of information to Innersloth’s developers. She creates practical, sustainable, and kinder online communities – in community management, social media, marketing, and beyond. Basically she wants ethics and tech to smooch.
Sunni Pavlovic
COO
Yacht Club Games
Sunni is the COO and Producer at Yacht Club Games, and was previously Studio Manager at thatgamecompany. Sunni’s experience is in Production and Studio Sustainability, and she is passionate about empowering those around her to create incredible things, making the impossible more possible through long-term strategy and planning.
Ted Gill
President
Unknown Worlds
President Prior to joining Unknown Worlds, Ted co-founded and served as CTO of Huddler (an online community platform company) until the company’s acquisition by Fandom in May of 2014. He then served as VP of Engineering and Chief Product Officer for Fandom until August of 2018. Ted attended Virginia Tech and received a B.S. in Mathematics.
Felix Kramer
Studio Director
The Game Band
Felix is the Studio Director at The Game Band, as well as a Producer at Robot Teddy. They approach everything they do with a focus on both self care and opportunity, and a big part of their dream is to see game development become more sustainable, especially in the intense energy it takes to shift from creating a vision to shipping a product.
Zhengua (Z) Yang
Founder, CEO
Serenity Forge
Zhenghua Yang (Z) is the founder of Serenity Forge, a value-driven video game development and publishing company in Boulder, CO. Having built his first computer at the age of 6 and programmed his first video game at the age of 10, Z started Serenity Forge after a near-fatal illness at the age of 18, focusing on creating meaningful & emotionally impactful games that challenge the way we think.