VERTICAL PROGRESS

Hi there. I am Martin Pichlmair, and I make playful things. Sometimes those are games, sometimes they are tools, and sometimes they are weird experiments.

I work as an 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 – currently mostly based on machine learning, and regularly cook up fresh prototypes. And I love dangerously hot food.

Recent Talks, Projects & Papers

Game Feel. A Survey. – Game feel design is the intentional design of the affective impact of moment-to-moment interaction.
– To be published in Transactions on Games.

Apocalypse Kitsch – A critique of the romanticisation of the apocalypse as found in popular video games.
— Presented at: Alserkal Venue, Dubai, VAE, August 24th, 2019

Video Game Description Language Environment for Unity Machine Learning Agents., written with Mads Johansen and Sebastian Risi.
— Presented at: IEEE CoG, London, UK, August 20-23, 2019