ANDREJUS
AVCHIMOVIČIUS
Board game creator/enthusiast. Winner of board game prototype competitions (PineCon 2024 (LT), Lituanicon 2024 (LT), HippoDice 2019 (DE)). Co-founder of the Vilnius board game designers guild “Prototipas” and creator of the social project for seniors “You are young while you play”.
MONIKA
DAUNYTĖ
Animator, music and sound manager, translation manager, (later) UI/UX designer, tech artist. Almost 10 years at Charlie Oscar studio, Monika worked on Gremlins Inc. (Lithuanian Game of the Year in 2016), Spire of Sorcery and its release into Early Access, and contributed to the studio’s latest project.
MARIJAM
DIDŽGALVYTĖ
Critic, writer, and lecturer exploring the games industry from political and cultural aspects. Currently is a senior marketing manager at The Chinese Room studio. Author of the first book about video games in Lithuanian – Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World.
DAVE
GOMES
Veteran producer in video games for nearly 20 years including credits on Club Penguin, Dead Rising 3, Horizon Zero Dawn, Horizon Forbidden West, Mafia: The Old Country, and Helldivers 2. Dave is now a freelance consultant providing production, operations and business strategy consultation to studio leadership teams.
ANDRIUS
JOVAIŠA
A veteran technology journalist and avid games fan, one of the authors of the games culture podcast “Dievo Režimas” and creator of other radio shows.
AISTĖ
JURĖ
Head of Children and Youth Content at LRT. Overseeing strategy development and implementation across multiple media channels: digital platforms (including social media), TV and radio/podcasts. Working closely with content producers to reach children and youth audiences.
TOMAS
KAIRYS
The founder of eshop manohobis.com. For many years he and his family played a lot of board games, so the hobby became a family business. Currently, they not only play and sell board games but also provide educational services for kids.
POVILAS
KATKEVIČIUS
Game producer and designer at Nordcurrent studio. 30 years of gaming, 6 years of creating games professionally. There is no other experience as magical as gaming, so Povilas wishes that as many people as possible would dare to try not only playing but also creating games for themselves and others.
JUOZAS
KAZLAUSKAS
The president of Board Punks board games club, organizer of PineCon convention. Additionally to board and roleplaying games, he hosts events and lectures, organizes orienteering games and educational activities, writes texts.
SOFIJA
KOROTAJEVAITĖ
Experienced member of games communities and initiatives, including game developers’ Ubisoft program “Star Player”. One of the hosts of “Žaidimų Balsas” podcast.
PIJUS
KRŪMINAS
Lecturer, board games fan, actively using them in education. Zenobia Award mentor, writing about serious games and seriously about games at pijus.substack.com.
HAN
LIU
Taipei Game Show Business Manager, focusing on all things related to indie games, including Indie House for indie game devs and Indie Game Award. Included Lithuanian games in this year’s event.
VYTAUTAS
LUKAŠEVIČIUS
A long-time reviewer of video games and the games industry, currently writing at 15min.lt. One of the creators of the game reviews YouTube channel Done Right.
AURIMAS
PETROVAS
QA Lead at Unity, Aurimas has 10 years of experience in the video game industry. Focusing on Machine Learning, he obtained a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Creativity in video games.
ARTŪRAS
RUMIANCEVAS
One of GameOn creators, games industry reviewer, critic, and fan.
ANDREJS
RUSINOVSKIS
Running the Estonian game developers association Gamedev Estonia, managing Gamedev HUB in Tallinn and also helping several games studios.
ADOMAS
RUTKAUSKAS
Former video game developer, gamer, science and technology journalist for the last fifteen years, currently working at lrytas.lt.
JĀZEPS
RUTKIS
Game developer, manager, and lecturer, co-founder of BirdPals studio, finishing a new game Potion Shop Simulator. Board member of the Latvian Game Developers Association.
EGLĖ
ZIOMA
Game artist, and publisher of board game “Perekupai” together with Slightly Magic Games studio.