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During the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the world’s largest game industry conference held annually in San Francisco, the SwissGames delegation will pitch their games at the SwissGames Pitch at Swissnex at Pier 17.
On Mar 16, 2024, eight SwissGames studios will gather at Pier 17 for a private pitch event. The afternoon will provide an opportunity for selected jury members and industry contacts to network with the studios in the SwissGames delegation.
If you’re attending GDC at the Moscone Center from March 20–22, 2024, visit the SwissGames Booth N2901 on the GDC Play floor, which showcases emerging and promising game developers from Switzerland.
The SwissGames delegation to GDC 2024 is organized in partnership with Pro Helvetia.
*Game Industry professionals can request an invitation to attend this event by reaching out to Alicia Rieckhoff.
Bio
Don Daglow is a pioneering game designer, novelist, and 2008 Technical Emmy®️ Award recipient for his creation of the original version of Neverwinter Nights. He has led the design, game narrative, production, and/or programming of a long list of titles, as well as serving as an advisor to online, mobile, PC, and console game projects.
Don also serves as an Advisor to The Strong National Museum of Play (the largest games museum in the world), and as the volunteer President of The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Foundation, the charitable wing of the Academy.
A 3-time Inc. 500 growth company CEO, Don is the author of “Indie Games: From Dream to Delivery,” an award-winning guide to developing, shipping, and selling indie games. He has also received a New Voices playwriting award from The National Endowment for the Arts and twelve major independent book awards for his best-selling literary mystery novel, “The Fog Seller.”
Daglow has delivered keynotes and presentations at The Smithsonian Art Museum in Washington D.C., BAFTA in London, and at over 25 annual GDC conferences in San Francisco, as well as GDCs in Cologne, London, and Shanghai.
Business Development & Scouting Manager
Rachel Heleva is the BizDev and Scouting Manager at Astra, a mission-driven indie game publisher focused on thinky games that empower all types of players to engage in creative problem-solving.
Prior to her current role, she worked in indie game publishing for years as a producer, helping indie teams scope and execute their creative vision and development goals throughout the end-to-end publishing process. She loves championing developers and supporting them as they explore bold new ideas.
Bio
Demetri Detsaridis is a twenty-three-year veteran developer, executive, and entrepreneur in the video game industry and Operating Partner on Haveli Investments’ gaming team. Prior to joining Haveli, Demetri was responsible for designing and implementing the next stage of Fortnite’s virtual economy as Epic’s Creator Ecosystem Product Lead. Before this, Demetri spent six years as a consultant focused primarily on monetization and game economy design, working with clients ranging from top AAA console mainstays to F2P developers and publishers. Demetri’s experience in virtual economies was built during his time as General Manager of free-to-play pioneer area/code and was deepened significantly upon area/code’s acquisition by Zynga, where many core aspects of modern game economy management were developed. In addition to his virtual economy work, Demetri also served as the Executive Producer of Madison Square Garden’s interactive team for the Las Vegas Sphere, as cofounder and CEO of VR games developer Experiment 7, cofounder and Creative Director of London’s Massively Mobile, and in various game design and production positions at Pop & Co., Warner Bros/DC Comics, and Gameloft.
Bio
Justin Woodward is the Co-founder, Creative Director, and owner of the independent game studio Interabang Entertainment. He is also the Co-Founder of the Media Indie Exchange (The MIX), founder of Non-profit Black Voices in Gaming, and Lead Advisor on the Black Game Dev Fund.
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