NGJ'09 Judges

Michael Valeur

Biography:

"Michael Valeur is one of the most prolific gamewriters & conceptdevelopers in Denmark.

Michael startede his artistic carriere in the 80s punk-community and have written games, plays, novels, poetry, radio-drama, articles on gamedevelopment & rock-music and developed interactive exhibitions for the National Museum of Art & Experimentariet .

He has worked as a movie-actor and has taught classes at the IT-University in Copenhagen, Dramatiska Institutet i Stockholm, La Femis i Paris, The Academy of Converging Media i Berlin & COFAC i Lissabon.

His website is at http://www.michaelvaleur.dk/".

Henrik Schønau Fog

Biography:

"Henrik Schønau Fog is ph.d. at the Alborg University and lectures on Screenmedia, Animation, Interactive Systems & Motion Capture.

He is co-founder and Creative Director at MoCap Copenhagen and producer at Amber Media.

He has more then a decade of experience with multi-media-productions and are currently consulting on an upcoming online virtual world game title."

Sonja Kangas

Biography:

"Sonja Kangas is Game Director at GuppyWorks. Currently she is working with guppylife.com which is a 3D MMO for girls.

She is also IGDA Finland coordinator and a game reviewer for Finnish television program Tilt.

Previously she has been working as a researcher as well as developed mobile and online games in Finland.

Website: http://souplala.net".

Arnt Jensen

"Arnt Jensen is educated as an artist at the Designschool in Kolding.

He has worked as a concept-artist on IO Interactive's Hitman II & Freedom Fighters and founded his own company – Underholdningsbranchen Aps – in 2006 with the purpose of furfilling his artistic ambition of the game "Limbo".

"Limbo" is in production with Arnt at the helm as Game Director. He received the 3 year working grant from The Danish Arts Foundation in 2007.

Limbogame.org: http://www.limbogame.org"."