JS GameDev Summit 2022

Mike Fleischauer has spent the last decade running GameFromScratch, a community for game development news, game engine and tool reviews and tutorials. He has been a professional developer for over 20 years. YouTube channel – GameFromScratch.

Frank has worked in the games industry for over two decades and has also released many games and tools on the side. To his count there are over 50 releases, with source code available for most. Here’s a full list of everything he has released! Frank currently works as an independent developer in Austin Texas. In the past he has worked at Rooster Teeth Games, Certain Affinity, LightBox, Volition, Midway Games, and Hypnotix.

David is a Senior Program Manager in the Developer Division at Microsoft, working on the end-to-end dev experience for Teams & Azure Communication Services. He’s also the co-creator of Babylon.js. Even if he’s stopped contributing to the project a couple of years ago, he’s still passionate about WebXR and uses it to fun experiments. David is also interested in music composition, quantum computing & video gaming.

Will Eastcott is CEO and co-founder of PlayCanvas, an open source, browser-based game engine. Will is a 25 year veteran of the games industry, with credits in Call of Duty, Max Payne, DJ Hero and many more. Will is a vocal advocate for open source and open standards and is currently obsessed with taking the web into the third dimension.

Omar is a graphics programmer working on mapping software currently based in Ithaca, NY. He is the co-creator of a desktop game, Move or Die. He has published over a dozen flash games that have been played millions of times. He loves the the universal accessibility of creating things for the web and enjoys writing computer graphics tutorials to help others create awesome stuff for the web.

Paul has been in the gaming industry for the better part of two decades, and has always been interested in the intersection of game design and new tech. He is CTO / Co-founder of OPGames, an open-source game platform company building tools to help game developers navigate this new landscape called web3. Paul is also the co-founder of Altitude Games, a mobile and blockchain gaming company based in the Philippines. He currently leads the KERNEL Gaming Guild, a community of the most talented individuals in the blockchain space. He has been writing and coding on web3 since 2017, and most of his work can be found online at polats.com.

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer @ Wonder Interactive

Endel is the creator of Colyseus, an open-source multiplayer framework for Node.js.

Sahar is a software developer and a game enthusiast. She has been developing in the web and mobile platforms for years, but her childhood passion for games and gaming brought her to the game industry and her experience with web and mobile platforms gave her more insight to become an indie game dev. Starting with JavaScript web games made this passion burn brighter and she's been creating games ever since, working with different engines and experimenting with creating multiplayer and single player games.

I got into game development at the age of 15 thinking it would be a temporary hobby. It ended up being my entire life. I'm very passionate for innovative game design and currently have 3 mobile games, 2 browser games and 3 PC games released. I also have a small youtube channel about game development and game design.

Indie developer in his free time, writes code + does generally awesome web and gaming stuff @ Poki.

Brendan is a senior software engineer working on graphics and the web platform for Unity Technologies, where he combines his love of creativity and technology. Before Unity, Brendan has 20+ years working in animation studios such as Disney, and technology companies such as Google.

Career at the intersection of technology and business. Experienced product commercialization manager. Tech Geek following evolution in the space from hardware, software and business models

As Vultr's Developer Advocate, Walt Ribeiro helps create educational materials for developers and technologists including video/written how-to guides, product demos, reference materials, best practices, code samples, and training. Having been a broadcast engineer at Youtube Space LA, he understands online content and production and is excited to bring that energy to Vultr's growing community across all sites, meetups, and events.

Oz is a Game Dev Evangelist at Backtrace, A Sauce Labs Company. He has over 15 years of experience in the game industry in various senior technical roles in gaming and software engineering. His major interests are emerging tech, machine learning and creating new tech products involving gaming or gamified applications.

Matt Butler, Artist, and Art Director. Previously worked in London and the USA for Virgin, EA, Sega, and Activision creating games for the X box and Playstation. Matt moved into the iGaming industry 7 years ago, he currently works for Evolution with the Netent Brand. He has directed with the help of an amazing art team many of Netent´s most successful slot titles such as Divine Fortune, Narcos, and Jumanji.

Alex Hawker is a Software Engineer on the GameSnacks team at Google, where he works on bringing exciting new experiences to the web gaming space. Before that, he worked to bring new GIF features to Gboard, Google’s virtual keyboard.