2025 Speakers
Jurie Horneman, Senior AI Programmer, Half Mermaid Productions
Jurie Horneman has been making games since 1991, writing role-playing games in 68K assembler with the 16-bit demoscene legends at Thalion Software. He was the co-designer and main programmer of the cult CRPG Albion. His area of expertise is the interaction of game design, AI, and storytelling, and he has spoken and written on procedural content generation, narrative design, and game AI. Most recently he helped ship Watch Dogs: Legion. He lives in Toronto, waiting for the dark mode fad to blow over.
