SPEAKING EXPERIENCE
Marie is an acclaimed speaker and has spoken at some of the biggest conferences within games and esports, including Devcom, Reboot, Nordic Game, MIGS and ESI. Marie also visits studios and universities to teach and conduct workshops, both online and in person. Most notably, Marie runs her Masterclass in Bossfight design – keep an eye on her eventbrite page to see when it runs next time. Marie speaks on the following topics:
- Esports
- Game Design
- Creative vision
- Creative processes
- Game AI (NPC’s, simulation and systems)
- Bossfights
Marie has also starred in countless interviews, podcasts, panels over the years. She also uses to talk about games weekly on TV. If you are interested in getting Marie to your event, publication, podcast or otherwise, get in touch below.
STATS
Over the years, Marie has held or appeared in…
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APPEARANCES
TALKS
Selection of some of the sessions Marie has spoken in over the years:
DevGAMM 2025
Talk: Too Many Features, Too Little Time? Kill Your Darlings and Save Your Game 2.0
Awards presenter: Excellence in Game Design
GIC 2025
AI Summit talk: Developing an AI Director for action games
Nordic Game 2025
Mainstage talk: Essential AI Systems for Combat Games
devcom 2025
Talk: Masters of Game Design: Building Depth in Games
Awards presenter: Excellence in Game Design
GDC 2025
AI Summit talk: Growing an AI Director into a full Adventure Director
Xbox Game Camp Ukraine 2024
Talk: Too Many Features, Too Little Time? Kill your Darlings and save your game
Edvice Webinar 2024
Talk: The Building Blocks of Gameplay 2.0
DStars 2024
Talk: Too Many Features, Too Little Time? Kill your Darlings and save your game
Nordic Game 2023
Talk: Introduction to boss fight design
Jury for Nordic Game Awards
Supercell visit 2023
Talk: The Secrets of Bossfight Design
Talk: Elevate Your Pillars – and Clarify Your Vision 2.0
Toca Boca visit 2023
Talk: My Journey
Talk: Elevate Your Pillars – and Clarify Your Vision 2.0
MEGAMIGS 2022
Talk: Elevate Your Pillars – and Clarify Your Vision
LiU Game Conference 2019
Talk: The Masterplan for managing an International Games Industry career
PANELS
Selection of some of the panels Marie has participated in over the years:
GIC 2025
AuA: So you want to get funded in 2025 (or 2026)?
Naavik's Gaming Podcast 2022
Roundtable participant: Why Blizzard Didn’t Renew NetEase Partnership and What’s Next?
gamesweekberlin 2022
Panelist: Look, Mom! I’m on TV! – The Dev Booster expert panel on promotion, self-distribution, and fame, going from creators to communicator
GamesCom 2022 ESI panel
Panelist: Making esports broadcasts more inclusive (satellite event)
WORKSHOPS
Selection of some of the workshops Marie has led over the years:
Masterclass in Boss fight design
Marie’s Masterclass 2.0 – 10 session breaking down the design. Privately for Titan1Studios. Summer 2025.
Masterclass in Boss fight design
Marie’s Masterclass 2.0 – 10 session breaking down the design. Ran Spring 2025. Public join.
Masterclass in Boss fight design
Marie’s Masterclass 2.0 – 10 sessions. Privately for Dambuster in Spring of 2025.
Masterclass in Boss fight design
Marie’s Masterclass 2.0 – 10 session breaking down the design. Ran fall 2024. Public join.
Masterclass in Boss fight design
Marie’s own Masterclass – privately for CipSoft in the summer of ’24
Masterclass in Boss fight design
Marie’s own Masterclass in a series of 7 online talks during fall 2023. Public join.
Game Design Bootcamp 2023
5-day Game Design Bootcamp at Supercell
Design Jam 2023
2-day workshop at Inn.no University of Applied Sciences coming up with game ideas, establishing creative vision and extrapolating features
Game Dev Coaching Day 2022
Workshop: Too Many Features, Too Little Time? Kill Your Darlings – And Save your Game
INTERVIEWS
Selection of some of the interviews, TV broadcasts, podcasts, articles and similar that Marie has participated in over the years:
Raptor Bytes 2025
30-minute interview boiled down to a few key takeaways on how to manage a career in the games industry
XR Update Podcast 2025
Podcast about Epyka, a game I helped studio Singular Perception re-design
Games.net Podcast 2022
Interviewed by Florian Masuth and Simon Ohler for their Gamet.Net Berlin Europe podcast
Bossfight article in GI.biz 2019
Interviewed by GI-Biz Editor-in-Chief James Bachelor to talk about bossfights in games
TV4 Nyhetsmorgon 2012
Interview about Battlefield 3 release in Sweden’s most viewed morning show with 1m+ live viewers. In Swedish.
