Sven is a freelance game designer and ux designer working in Berlin and The Hague. He graduated with a university diploma in communication design, and worked since 2008 in the games industry, where he contributed to several shipped titles. Among them, massively-multiplayer-online games, but also smaller indie mobile games. One ongoing project, Phoenix II (iOS), is a featured “Game of the Day”, and a demo game installed by Apple on showroom devices.
Sven attended several GDC Game Developer Conferences in Cologne, Austin and San Franscisco, mainly with focus on game writing; worked with D&D author and fantasy writers to develop new franchises; and gave several two-day workshops for students on interactive storytelling and narrative design.
Sven has a research interest in (game) metaphors.