Nader Alikhani
Innovecs Games
Creative business leader, with extensive expertise across the gaming industry, and a passion for games and technology. Nader has over 22 years of experience spanning full game development in Art, Technical Art, and Design, education as a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader at Staffordshire University, and a Business and Creative Director at leading service-based companies such as Atomhawk and Sumo Digital.
This mix of experience across different parts of the industry, development practices, hardware, support, and training has given Nader a deep insight into the needs, pressures, and opportunities present in the wider games market.
Nader Alikhani is speaking at the following session/s
pARTy Composition: Building Balanced Art Teams in an Unbalanced Industry
Every game needs art, but not every game needs the same artists, at the same time, in the same proportions.
Whether you're a solo developer wearing every hat, an indie team deciding where to spend a limited budget, or a studio leader planning department growth, success often comes down to understanding which art problems need solving now—and which can wait.
Using RPG party composition as a framework, this talk explores how art direction, concept art, production art and technical art create value throughout development, how those needs change as projects evolve, and how to make smarter decisions about where to invest your team's time, money and effort. Because bringing every class isn't always possible—but bringing the right ones can make all the difference.
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