A MAZE. / Johannesburg 2015 - 4th International Games and Playful Media Festival

Creator of the indie game Cadence and co-curator of the experimental video game party Super Friendship Arcade, Peter spends a lot of time looking in and pondering what it means to be a happy game developer.

Writer and game designer from Toronto, Canada. A member of the PR and Communications Committee for Dames Making Games Toronto. Studies film when she’s not leveling up her programming skills and changing her hair colour.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Cyrille Dos Ghali obtained a master's degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Neuch‚tel; his main interest was deconstructing the nature/culture dichotomy. After having worked on several mandates as a scientific consultant for the Ecole... Read More →

Ben Myres is a game designer, curator, and digital artist. He is the co-founder of South African indie studio, Nyamakop; programme manager of A MAZE. / Johannesburg; and co-organiser of [Resting] Glitch Face, a Johannesburg experimental games party.Ben has never played a Zelda... Read More →

Julian Pritchard the Programmer and Business Guy at Punk Arcade, a South African independent studio currently working on their debut title Phase Edge. Julian has been tinkering with games for almost a decade, and also helping out in the Jo'burg and South African dev scene since... Read More →

GameLab Manager at the CRI, he is also runningthe gamelier club afterwork. Long story short, when he finished hisfrench undergrad studies of anthropology and sociology, he went toVancouver as a visitor student in SF University that's where he metstorytelling and transmedia.

Thorsten S. Wiedemann is founder and director of A MAZE.. He produces and curates under this international label festivals, exhibitions and workshops on the intersection of games, games culture, digital arts and playful media. With "A MAZE. / Berlin" and "A MAZE. / Johannesburg" he... Read More →