This year’s FÍS Games Summit will be held at the all-new Radisson RED Hotel in Galway City on Friday, April 11th, 2025, featuring Xalavier Nelson Jr., Studio Head at Strange Scaffold & veteran game designer/programmer (Wolfenstein/ DOOM) Tom Hall!
FIRST SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT:
We are excited to be joined this year by Xalavier Nelson Jr., Studio Head at Strange Scaffold.
Xalavier Nelson Jr. is a BAFTA-nominated studio head, narrative director, writer, and Forbes 30 under 30 luminary, with dozens of titles under his belt including 'I Am Your Beast', 'Stranger Things VR', 'Magic: The Gathering', 'Hypnospace Outlaw', and 'El Paso, Elsewhere'. He also makes strides in a storytelling career outside of games, with releases such as the cult hit comic 'Sherlock Holmes Hunts the Moth Man'.
Xalavier will be delivering his talk “Don’t Let the B*stards Win: Sustainable Game Development in 2025” and we are looking forward to learning from him!
SECOND SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT:
Tom Hall is a former co-founder of id Software, and a veteran game designer/programmer for 37 years. His games such as Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Rise of the Triad, and Anachronox have won many awards and have been enjoyed by millions of players, and his characters and universes live on today. After acting as Senior Creative Director on VR/AR titles at Resolution Games, Tom now works at Romero Games as Design Lead on an unannounced title.
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About FÍS Games Summit:
FÍS Games Summit 2025 is the fifth annual event hosted by Ardán, supported by Screen Ireland, Gréasán na Meán, IMIRT, TG4, WRAP, Creative Europe Media Desk Ireland, ATU Galway City, and Radisson RED Galway.
The goal of the Summit is to help foster growth and success in the Irish games development community by providing developers on the island of Ireland with a unique opportunity to engage with talks and presentations that will help them in their own careers.
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PLEASE NOTE: If we reach capacity on our mid-bird tickets, we will be opening another round in late March with the full programme announcement.
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