2025 Speakers
Daanish Syed, Art Director, Bit Reactor
Daanish is a designer and animator who first got a taste of game development modding the original Doom as a teenager, and after a circuitous route through a few different careers, eventually returned to games and is now a 15-year industry veteran. With a degree in Computer Science and Animation, he enjoys both the technical and artistic sides of creating, and his varied background and expertise has led him into a wide array of hobbies and side-hustles including animating titles sequences for film and television, designing board games, and hosting the game design podcast Someone Should Make This. He has shipped numerous entries in the Mortal Kombat and Injustice franchises, and his most recent release is STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor. He is currently working on a new Star Wars strategy game at Bit Reactor.