I am interested in playful experiences that facilitate human interaction. I'm also intrigued by emergent social dynamics in complex systems with cooperative and competitive elements.
I recently helped set up the UK's AI Safety Institute. Before that I designed multi-agent research environments as an Environment Designer at DeepMind.
I founded Fairytale Distillery and designed the competitive online game The Exiled. Before that I co-founded the Bit Barons and organized events like GameCamp Munich and Global Game Jam.
| Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space | Adaptive Agent Team, | 2023 |
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| Learning Robust Real-Time Cultural Transmission without Human Data | Cultural General Intelligence Team, | 2022 |
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| Making an MMO on a dime | Quo Vadis, | Berlin, | 2015 | 
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| Mechanics are the Message | Games-Tagung, | Munich, | 2014 |
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| Going Indie is a Marathon - Staying Motivated for the Long Run (Panel) | Respawn Conference, | Cologne, | 2014 |
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| Gender (and Diversity) design in video games (Panel) | Respawn Conference, | Cologne, | 2014 |
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| That Jam we're in - A discussion on potentials and limits of Game Jams (Panel) | Respawn Conference, | Cologne, | 2014 |
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| Managing the Unspeakable - One Year of Pre-Pro for the Indie-MMO | Quo Vadis, | Berlin, | 2014 |
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| What I learned in Five Years of Making Games | Creative Mornings, | Munich, | 2013 |
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| Competitive Multiplayer Games | Game Design Dojo, | Munich, | 2013 |
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| The MDA Model (Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics) | Game Design Dojo, | Munich, | 2013 |
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| Die Independent-Spiele-Szene und [...] Medienkompetenz | Fachtagung Spielkulturen, | Bayreuth, | 2013 |
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| The Art Of Public Funding For Indie Games | GDC Europe, | Cologne, | 2011 |
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| Lokalisierung – lohnt sich das? (Panel) | Quo Vadis, | Berlin, | 2011 |
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| A MAZE. Indie Connect (Panel) | Quo Vadis, | Berlin, | 2011 |
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| Introduction to Game Design (Bachelor Game Art) | full course, | SAE Games, | 2013 |
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| Prototyping (Master Game Design) | full course, | Mediadesign Hochschule, | 2013 |
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| Analyse von Engine-Technologien (Master Game Design) | full course, | Mediadesign Hochschule, | 2013 |
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| Vom klassischen Gesellschaftsspiel zum Digitalspiel | workshop, | Deutsche Spieleautorentagung, | 2011 |
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| How to Brief a Game Developer | workshop, | Goethe-Institut, | 2011 |
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| Innovative Spielkonzepte (Master Game Design) | full course, | Mediadesign Hochschule, | 2011 |
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| OPNnoobs | Frederic Brizzi, | English, | 2016 |
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| Gaiscioch Magazine | Benjamin Foley, | English, | 2016 |
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| Süddeutsche Zeitung | Jan Bojaryn, | German, | 2015 |
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| Gamestar TV | Sebastian Stange, | German, | 2015 |
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| Insert Moin | Daniel Raumer, | German, | 2015 |
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| Techdings | Andree Huk, | German, | 2015 |
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| Level UB | Paul Redetzky, | German, | 2015 |
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| medien.bayern | Richard Löwenstein, | German, | 2014 |
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| Gamebolds | Robert Fischer, | German, | 2014 |
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| Mein MMO | Gerd Schuhmann, | German, | 2014 |
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| MMORPG.com | Gareth Harmer, | English, | 2014 |
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| Promoter | Andreas Zecher, | English, | 2012 |
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| Techdings | Andree Huk, | German, | 2011 |
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I am currently available for consulting in a limited capacity. Feel free to get in touch if I can help you with your project or product. I am not available for longer teaching engagements but could be interested in running a small workshop or giving a talk.
Talk to me about improv, systems design, games, politics, cultural evolution, machine
learning,
entrepreneurship, the open web, journalism, concept albums and cinematography.
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