I am Nils Deneken, an award-winning game maker, art director and creative director.I created and directed the multiple-award-winning game Mutazione (2019), its world, characters, story and art style, including UI and interaction design.For Saltsea Chronicles (2023), I did the art direction, environment / place design, UI and interaction design, and some character design.My game’s biography include Where is my Heart, for which I did the art direction and level design and the award winning B.U.T.T.O.N. (Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now), for which I did the art and collaborated on the design.I have a background in visual communication, I created all of our game’s and company’s corporate identities (logos and key art, icons and most of our public-facing material). I made the all of the trailers for Mutazione.I have been teacher for Game Art at the IT University of Copenhagen, had talks at GDC, the Danish Design School and Nordic Game Jam and been juror at the Independence Game Festival and Indiecade. I’m the founder of Die Gute Fabrik and one of the cofounders of the Copenhagen Game Collective, both established in 2008.I’m based in Copenhagen, Denmark.Games Biography2008 – Rückblende – Idea and Concept, Creative Direction, Visualisation, Music, Programming2010 – B.U.T.T.O.N – Visualisation, Design2011 – Where is my Heart – Visualisation, Level Design2019 – Mutazione – Idea and Concept, Creative Direction, Visualisation, Story, Design2023 – Saltsea Chronicles – Art Direction, UI Design, Environments, Character DesignLife1979 – Born in Heidelberg 1999 - 2006 – Study of Visual Communication at Essen Folkwang Universität der Künste2002-2003 – A year at the Danish Design School2008 – Founding of Die Gute Fabrik