Invited guests Guadalindie 2025
Mark Brown
Game Maker's Toolkit
Mark Brown is a video game developer and journalist. He is the creator of Game Maker’s Toolkit: an award-winning YouTube series about game design and development, with over 200 million views. He is also the developer of the game Mind Over Magnet. Mark is also a professional design consultant, gives guest lectures around the world to universities and game development studios, and has run several successful game jams. He has contributed to publications like EDGE Magazine, Wired, and Polygon.
Sam Barlow
Game Director
Sam Barlow is the founder of Half Mermaid Productions and a director and writer of games that push the boundaries of interactive narrative. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories psychologically profiled its own players; Her Story reinvented the detective genre for the YouTube generation, and Telling Lies explored the conflict between government and intimacy via lives lived over video calls. In 2022 he released his most ambitious project yet, IMMORTALITY, a horror story about 20th Century filmmaking, art and death. IMMORTALITY won the BAFTA for Best Narrative and was the first indie game to receive a perfect 10/10 score in Edge Magazine. Barlow is currently working on two horror projects, codenamed Project C and Project D.
Keita Takahashi
game designer
"I have made some silly games in the past, and now working on "to a T" which is game about T-posed teenager and a dog."
Kitty & Jan Willem
Makes games
They have worked on amazing games either individually or together: Luftrausers, Nuclear Throne, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Minit, Disc Room..
Mirella Díez
Senior Audio Designer en ZA/UM
Audio Designer surviving in the industry by making booms and pows since 2013. You can hear me in games like CONTROL, RiME, Cataclysm, After Us, etc. Currently working at ZA/UM creators of Disco Elysium.
Afry Curiel
Senior Narrative Designer
He is a Narrative Designer with 10 years of experience. He has worked in studios such as Nomada Studio, Ubisoft and Splash Damage.