VERTICAL PROGRESS

Hi there. I am Martin Pichlmair, Associate Professor and Head of the Games Programme at IT University Copenhagen. I am also one out of five co-founders of award winning boutique game studio Broken Rules and a member of the Copenhagen Game Collective. I research game design, create tools and processes for game design and development, and regularly cook up fresh prototypes. And I love dangerously hot food.

What do I do? I teach game production and desigbn. I regularly speak at industry and academic conferences. I consult in game design for indie games. I maintain a couple of public repositories for juicy source code.

Recent Talks, Projects & Papers

Apocalypse Kitsch – A critique of the romanticisation of the apocalypse as found in popular video games.

Alserkal Venue, Dubai, VAE, August 24th, 2019

Shibboleth Scripting – A tour-de-force through examples of domain-specific languages for games.

Unity, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27, 2019

Video Game Description Language Environment for Unity Machine Learning Agents.

With Mads Johansen and Sebastian Risi.
IEEE CoG, London, UK, August 20-23, 2019