Northside Festival

Co-Founder and COO Playmatics Nick Fortugno is a game designer and entrepreneur of digital and real-world games based in New York City, and a founder of Playmatics, a NYC game development company. For the past 10 years, Fortugno has been a designer, writer and project manager... Read More →

Jesper Juul is a visiting assistant arts professor at the New York University Game Center. He also writes The Ludologist, a blog on video games and other important things... Read More →

GM, Zynga New York Dan Porter is the GM of Zynga New York (ZNGA). Before he sold his company to Zynga, he was CEO of OMGPOP, the creator of Draw Something, the fastest growing mobile app in the history of mobile. The game hit 1 million users in 9 days and 50 million users in 50 days... Read More →

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