A Handmade Video Game About The First Time You Held Hands
Esben Kjær Ravn, CEO and Founder of Kong Orange
Esben Kjær Ravn is the captain of digital quality time at Kong Orange – the company he has founded to bring deeply felt joy to this world. He headed the release of the happy ‘Heartbeats – A Galactic Requiem’ (2015) and the straight-up delightful ‘Felix The Reaper’ at Kong Orange (2019). Now he has teamed up with puppet animation wiz Johan Oettinger and his Wired Fly studio and poet and artist Morten Søndergaard to create Vokabulantis.
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Esben will speedrun through the happy hardship, wild wins, and marketing megalomania behind choosing stop motion as the creative solution creating a video game that must compete among the best to be a justifiable business case alongside a worthy piece of art.
Session: A Handmade Video Game About The First Time You Held Hands
In session: Esben Kjær Ravn, CEO & Founder of Kong Orange
Date: October 30, 2020
Time: 10.15 AM – 10.45 AM
Venue: Filmby Aarhus, Studio 2 (Max 50 pers.)
Read more: kongorange.com
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