Anders Andersen

Principal Game Designer And Lead at IO Interactive

Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Anders Andersen is a Principal Game Designer and Lead based in Copenhagen with 13 years of experience shaping interactive entertainment across AAA studios and indie startups. He combines deep design expertise with hands-on technical skills in C#, Unity, 3D prototyping and web design, having led teams at IO Interactive and built cross-platform game IP at his own consultancy Overlook Interactive. Anders pairs an academic foundation in media studies and rhetoric from Aarhus Universitet (and further study at UT Austin) with practical teaching and examination roles, reflecting a knack for translating theory into player-facing systems. He’s equally comfortable architecting gameplay as he is producing UX-focused web tools and digital media, and brings a rare mix of narrative sensibility and technical craft to game systems.
code13 years of coding experience
job3 years of employment as a software developer
bookMA, Department of Radio, Television & Film, Grad School, MA, Department of Radio, Television & Film, Grad School at The University of Texas at Austin
bookInternational Business Baccalaureate, Business, Marketing & Culture Studies, GCSE, International Business Baccalaureate, Business, Marketing & Culture Studies, GCSE at Columbus Innovation College at KHS
bookCand.mag (MA), Media Studies, Rhetoric and Communication, Cand.Mag., Cand.mag (MA), Media Studies, Rhetoric and Communication, Cand.Mag. at Aarhus Universitet
languagesEnglish, Danish, German

Programming languages (1)

JavaScript

Github contributions (5)

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Library for compressing and decompressing strings in JavaScript, feature full Unicode support and is compatible with most browsers.
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 3 years 11 months
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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Anders Andersen - Principal Game Designer And Lead at IO Interactive