Panel of Judges
Game Showdown
Mr. Syed Abbas
Deputy Managing Director, Ubisoft Pune Studio
He has 12+ years in gaming industry with experience on console, online and mobile game development. Credited in multiple titles like Far Cry, Splinter Cell and Just Dance.
Mr. Erik Egerup
Studio Art Director, Dhruva Interactive
Erik has 10+ years of experience in game art. His last engagement before Dhruva was as Art Director with Massive – a Ubisoft Studio. Erik has a great understanding of the synergy between the brand, the game and the artistic vision, all of which need to work together to create a bestselling game. He has great artistic skills and sense of colors, space and lighting as well as great understanding of technical limitations and creative solutions for games. His notable work before Dhruva include Farcry 3 and World in Conflict: Soviet Assault. At Dhruva he has played a vital role, working on projects with Microsoft, Sony and 343 to name a few.
Mr. Francois Weber
Software-Engineer, AirConsole
Francois is a full-stack Software-Engineer at AirConsole. Being specialised in web and mobile technologies he also has a lot of fun creating HTML5 games.
Ms. Martina Hugentobler
Game-Designer, AirConsole
Martina is a Game Designer and Artist at AirConsole. She loves creating local multiplayer games and lively characters.
Mr. Anand Jha
Director, Nilee Games
Founded Nilee games LLP for next level gaming technology HTML5. His multi-platform game development expertise are under one roof from conceptualization to end quality product.
Mr. Vijay Rakshe
Client Services Director, Nilee Games
He is involved in planning, developing and managing client’s projects. Also, his job involves establishing overall client relationship standards for the company to follow.
Mr. Kinshuk Sunil
Founder and Game Designer at Hashstash
He is the founder and Game Designer at Hashstash an award winning independent game development studio based out of Delhi. The company has developed games like Splash Damage, Huerons and Circulets.
VFX Showdown
Mr. Mark de sousa
Executive Producer
Over the past 20 years, Mark has contributed to almost 25 films as an artist and computer graphics supervisor and executive producer. He has worked on multiple award winning films including the Oscar VFX winning Titanic and Spider-Man 2.
During his 15 year tenure at Imageworks, he helped to create and oversee the Character FX department as well serving as a department supervisor on various shows (cloudy with a chance for meatballs 2, alice in wonderland and oz, the great and powerful). He also served on the facility town council at Imageworks, helping to standardize the facility and unify show pipelines.
Mark has also authored an instructional DVD for The Gnomon Workshop and wrote a chapter for a Sybex publication on Alias’ Maya software.
Mr. Sankara
2D supervisor at BOT VFX
He is a Passionate Visual Effects artist having 8 years of professional experience in Feature films, Commercials/TV episodic, currently working in BOTVFX. His specialities include compositing, matte extraction.
Mr. Srikanth S
2D Supervisor at BOT VFX
He is a Visual Effects artist with 7 years professional experience in films, television and commercials. He has a rich experience in hand paint and procedural compositing/paint.