📍 Amsterdam
Mentor Bio
Niels Monshouwer is a producer with 15+ years of experience in Indie games and AAA. He was co-founder at WeirdBeard Games, best known for games such as 99 Bricks and Tricky Towers. After which he was Principal Producer Robots and combat systems on Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Forbidden West.
Current role and activities
Niels is currently working as a producer on All Will Rise, a game about climate activism working with a distributed international team.
What you can learn from him
Niels has lots of lessons learned from setting up an Indie studio to managing multi-team AAA production pipelines.
- How to hire and set up your team properly
- How to setup your production pipeline
- How to keep teams aligned with each other and the vision
- How to get the best out of a team meeting
- How to budget, create a production plan and what to do if it doesn’t work out