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View, browse and sort the ever-growing list of sessions by day, time, pass type, topic, and format. With this Session Viewer, you can view session and speaker details for Game Developers Conference 2024.

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Thais WeillerGame Designer and ProducerJoyMasher

Thais works with videogames since 2010. It all started when she started to research game design at the Universidade de São Paulo. This research granted her M.Sc. degree and a published book on the game design framework resulting. She also co-founded JoyMasher along with Danilo Dias in 2012. JoyMasher released Oniken, Odallus, Blazing Chrome and Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider. Thais also worked on other game companies or as a freelancer, in titles such as Finding Monsters and many more. She is now researching how to create unusual experiences through play, specially when negative emotions are involved. On this subject, she released Rainy Day. Currently, she teaches Game Design on PUCPR, works at JoyMasher, unveils the bittersweetness of game design and tries to make games that matter.

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Connecting the Global Game Development Community

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