Thomas Viktil Email & Phone Number

Oslo, Norway

Oslo, Norway

Head of the games division and part of the company's group of leaders. Responsible for developing the division's strategy, business development, analysis of markets and competitors, financing of projects, development of games concepts and business cases, gathering customer and market insights to guide the development of the concepts.Responsible for the part of the research project "AIM: AI driven multi format universes", supported by The Research Council of Norway, that is about… Show more Head of the games division and part of the company's group of leaders. Responsible for developing the division's strategy, business development, analysis of markets and competitors, financing of projects, development of games concepts and business cases, gathering customer and market insights to guide the development of the concepts.Responsible for the part of the research project "AIM: AI driven multi format universes", supported by The Research Council of Norway, that is about realtime co-development of new universes in Roblox.Secured funding, developed the concept, handled project management and did all programming of the mobile game Cattle Hill: Farm Detectives (KuToppen: Gårdsdetektivene). Show less

Oslo Area, Norway

Leading the games division consisting of a core team of 5 people. Responsible for establishing and nurturing collaborations with other divisions of the TRY organisation, such as advertisement, media, film agency, copywriting, marketing, and strategy development. Developed the business strategy for the unit, together with the employees and stakeholders. Lead the development of TERROR SQUID from start to release on Steam and Nintendo Switch. Handled developer and financial relations with Valve… Show more Leading the games division consisting of a core team of 5 people. Responsible for establishing and nurturing collaborations with other divisions of the TRY organisation, such as advertisement, media, film agency, copywriting, marketing, and strategy development. Developed the business strategy for the unit, together with the employees and stakeholders. Lead the development of TERROR SQUID from start to release on Steam and Nintendo Switch. Handled developer and financial relations with Valve and Nintendo. Designed the software architecture and built most of the core systems of TERROR SQUID. Planned an executed the marketing strategy together with the media agency TRY OPT. Contributed in engaging with and building the community around the game TERROR SQUID. Show less

Oslo Area, Norway

Senior lead game developer on 25 games for clients such as Posten, Hydro, Statnett and Norgesgruppen. Responsible for designing and building the system architecture, game systems, AI behaviours, data structures, algorithms and more. Leading and mentoring teams of developers through the entire project lifecycle. Assisted clients in concept development, prototyping, developing business strategies and project management.Merits- Successfully designed and built the software architecture,… Show more Senior lead game developer on 25 games for clients such as Posten, Hydro, Statnett and Norgesgruppen. Responsible for designing and building the system architecture, game systems, AI behaviours, data structures, algorithms and more. Leading and mentoring teams of developers through the entire project lifecycle. Assisted clients in concept development, prototyping, developing business strategies and project management.Merits- Successfully designed and built the software architecture, execution of programming, leading and mentoring the other developers to complete a game 4 weeks before the deadline, without the need to resolve to any overtime. Show less

Oslo, Norway

Co-founded the company and was the CEO, designer and developer. The company started doing work for hire as interaction designers, where we designed and developed web applications, websites, games and LEGO robots. We saw an opportunity in the market for a solution for automating and simplifying management of corporate events, and pivoted the company to become a solutions provider for the events industry. The product still exists today, under the name of Oiiku.

Oslo Area, Norway

Did primarily web design, Flash banner ads, some illustration and animation.Worked for clients such as Citroën, MasterCard, Ementor (now Atea).

Designer, illustrator and project manager.Most memorable projects were the games I designed for Hydro, Norges Skiforbund and Posten (Norwegian postal service). I was also the project manager for two games for Posten.

Head of design.Designed an online campaign for the launch of the new design of the Lion chocolate bar from Nestlé. Worked a lot on the user interface for a telephone number register we built for Transcom Sweden. Did also design the first website for the norwegian telephone register 1880.Some of the clients: Nestlé, Transcom, 1880 (now Telenor)

Head of design.Designed websites for clients such as You Communication and various in-house projects, such as the user interface for a tablet for the medical industry.During the project for You Communication I was responsible for the communication between the design agency and our programmers. I had to make sure that the design sketches would be possible to implement in our backend.