PLAY19 » Jury and Mentor

Daniel Ziegener

Christina Kutscher — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:25:27 +0000

Daniel Ziegener writes as a freelance journalist for numerous magazines about video games and the culture surrounding them. In formats such as “away from keyboard” he takes a closer look at the people developing these games.

He produces “Hinter den Pixeln”, a podcast for GameStar, where he focuses on the developing process of games. He also writes and talks about alternative games at Lost Levels.

Dennis Schoubye

Christina Kutscher — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:24:27 +0000

As Project Lead for gamecity:Hamburg, Dennis Schoubye and his team support and connect the games industry in Hamburg. Dennis has been working in the games industry since 2010 and has been playing games himself since the good old C64 days. After working for PR agencies on digital and games topics, he most recently worked in communications for a Hamburg-based game developer and is looking forward to many monstrously good indie games at the PLAY19 festival.

Frank Meijer

Valentina — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:02:14 +0000

Frank Meijer is PR & Content Specialist at subscription gaming platform Utomik, responsible for measuring expected impact for upcoming releases and assigning marketing value to them. As a late bloomer in gaming, he only got obsessed with the medium in his early 20’s but has been making up for that with his enthusiasm ever since. The indie scene is very close to his heart and he is always looking around for new and undiscovered talent, trying to get a bit more attention for them in any way possible. You might also know him as the ‘stroopwafel guy’, spreading sugary goodness around at every event he attends.

Gabi Linde

katharina — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:20:28 +0000

Gabi Linde is Experience Designer, urban activist, speaker and lecturer for playful interaction with public space, advocate of game and playful cultural education, facilitator, outdoor educator and coordinator for projects focusing on ‘Game’, civic participation and urban space. As founding member of HiddenCampus, she opens playful spaces to learn and experience. She is certain that ‘Game’, particularly in adulthood, can lead to personal growth and a happier, healthier life.

Janina Kozubik (OddNina)

wpadmin — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:32:11 +0000

Mathilde Hoffmann

vera marie — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 01:00:54 +0000

Mathilde Hoffmann is sound designer and composer from Hamburg. Accompanied by a recording device, she loves walking with open ears and incorporating the collecteed sounds.

She studied at the Musikhochschule Trossingen, where she discovered her love for sound design. Since then, Mathilde works as sound designer for games by the Hamburg based publisher Daedalic (Ken Follett’s: The Pillars of the Earth, State of Mind) and worked on several advertisements.

Her favourite projects are those that combine sound design and music as in her recent game Unrailed!