GAME - Law & Business

A lot of references in this episode, I know – I have collected some links here:  Inventor of the Nimbi game (1962) Piet Hein:  https://piethein.com/piet-hein/ You can play the game here:  https://datamuseum.dk/nimbi/ Find the Nimbi-law here:  https://www.retsinformation.dk/api/pdf/247080 7 tasks of NIMBI:  https://www.nimbi.dk/en/about-nimbi Games Denmark:  https://gamesdenmark.dk/ CAPNOVA:  https...

My guest in this episode drove through the Danish blizzard to record at HortenDahl’s (new) premises in Hellerup. Luckily, not everything has changed - we still have Victor and Dennis from  Podcaster.dk to assure a high quality production. Links:Business:  https://uglyducklinggames.com/ James Paul Gee; https://jamespaulgee.com/ If you have a kid in school in Denmark, there is a 90% chance of access...

Thomas is a Hyper-optimist, working on multi-player turn-based technology building games that utilize possibilities of digital - board games with additional layers. To be available on mobile and web. Together with three other industry veterans, Thomas is currently building the start-up studio, Glitchfjørd Games, leaning into Scandinavian cool vibe. “Mobile space is stale!” - Thomas has the desire...

In this GAME Law & Business episode I have the pleasure of talking with Dario from Chop Chop Games about gems, music and legal issues.  Prior to the recording we agreed that Dario should prepare some games-related legal topics to discuss in the session - without telling me before. I think this format worked out quite well, and I hope you will enjoy listieng to our thoughts on questions about p...

In this episode of GAME Law & Business, we continue our Publishing theme and sit down with Alexandar Skronski, the Head of Publishing at Ghost Ship Publishing. With tons of experience in the games industry, Alex shares his journey and insights into the world of game publishing.  During the recording session we discovered our shared common interest for playing the piano. Alex currently enjoys p...

Guest/Co-host: Allan Kirkeby, Senior Business Developer at EA Dania, Former CEO of Unity Studios, and hosting the IDSU podcast: https://www.idsu.dk/podcast  (in Danish)   Episode Content : In this episode we delve into the world of publishing contracts with Allan Kirkeby. We look into some key components of publishing contracts and talk about how publishing contracts have changed over time to adap...

From one-man-band to rock star. The creator of Necesse, Mads Skovgaard , has taken the full journey, starting 12 years ago from scratch in every sense, even building his own game engine to support his vision of a fun and interesting game experience. Getting in touch with influencers, building updates, community management, and much more until at one day reaching the front page of Steam to discover...

The Bjerregaard, Cindercats - First Person Boot-strapping  I have been looking forward to sharing this story; Producer at CinderCat Games, Thea Bjerregaard talks about life as an start-up indie studio and reveals the teams passion for dark humor that will be imminent in their upcoming First Person Booter misadventure - Glum. We also talk about being a pick of the Danish angel investor, Three Littl...

Quirky fun is on in this episode - but what else to expect from Niels Wetterberg, CEO of Invisible Walls. Niels recommends some games suitable for playing together with your kids; Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and It Takes Two. And he revels to have an eclectic taste in music! You may discover interesting facts about how Invisible Walls was ‘just getting acquired’ by Amplifier/Embracer Group, an...

In this episode, I have two guests in the studio; Tim Garbos from Triband and Jakob Sillesen from Multiverse/Adventure Box. They actually met each other at SYBO sharing an office space in the early days of Subway Surfer production. Triband provides a level editor in What The Car? and Multiverse has the game building platform KOGAMA. Both Tim and Jakob talk about the massive amounts of content that...

In this episode Ulas Karademir is my guest. Ulas is CEO of TMRW Denmark ApS, working on RealityOS; and former VP of Core Engeneering at UNITY.Ulas recently played Mount & Blade and is listening to jazz from Mali. We learn about Ulas’ background, coming from Turkey to Denmark; playing basketball at a high level (pun intended!), learning C++ and ending up working in Danish Game studios. Ulas sha...

In this episode, modl.ai CEO Christoffer Holmgaard is visting DAHL's office in Copenhagen that serves as pop-up studio for our podcasts. Christoffer's music playlist turns out to be space pilot/crunch proof, and his recent played RTS game is currently on sale - I will check out playability on my Steam Deck… We talk about applying AI in video game development. If you think the start is a bit slow,...

In this first episode of GAME - Law & Business, Søren Lundgaard, CEO of Ghost Ship Games is visiting. We talk about one of their next games, and about the background for this particular game, that was initially a hobby project to teach Søren’s son about coding and creating his own games. We also discuss the range of copyright protection of a game (idea and expression), clones and genres. Some...

The purpose of this podcast series is to dive into interesting topics together with friends from the video games industry, and give listeners a deeper understanding of what is going on behind the scenes and how business is made. Each episode, Robert Jønsson, Video Game Lawyer at DAHL law firm, will be joined by a guest that gives practical, real-life angles on the topics, and together they aim at...