20 foreign experts selected for Tehran Video Game Festival jury
20 foreign experts selected for Tehran Video Game Festival jury

TEHRAN – Twenty foreign experts will judge entries at the 7th edition of the Tehran Video Game Festival, the organizers announced on Wednesday. The Technical Art Director at The Coalition (Gears of War), David Coleman, and a game designer at Ubisoft studio, Max Pears, are among the experts. The jury also has Giuseppe Trapani, a […]

TEHRAN – Twenty foreign experts will judge entries at the 7th edition of the Tehran Video Game Festival, the organizers announced on Wednesday.

The Technical Art Director at The Coalition (Gears of War), David Coleman, and a game designer at Ubisoft studio, Max Pears, are among the experts.

The jury also has Giuseppe Trapani, a senior game designer at Gram Games; Tom Putzki, communication director for Europe East at Wargaming; and Brie Code, the CEO of the TRU LUV studio.

The panel also is composed of 15 Iranian experts, including Payam Azadi, Vahid Yusefi, Matin Izadi, Sajjad Qolizadeh, Shiva Moqanlu and Ali Kiani-Amin.

Eighteen game scripts, 20 PC games and 152 mobile games, all produced over the past year, are competing at the festival.

Winners will be honored during a special ceremony at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on March 10.

The festival is organized every year by the National Foundation for Computer Games.