Wilson Almeida is a Game Designer and Ph.D Student in Media Arts and Communication doctoral program at Lusófona University, where he does research on Game Jams development. With a degree in Digital Animation from the same university, Wilson Almeida began his career as a 3D artist in the cross-media project “Mourinho and the Special Ones” in 2012. He pivoted to Game Design and has worked on PC, console, and mobile games, while working for several studios such as Bica Studios, Nerd Monkeys, and ONTOP Studios. In 2014 he began coordinating the Game Dev Meet event and ever since that experience he has been an active member of the Portuguese game development community as an organizer of several other events, in collaboration with multiple companies, higher education and research institutions, namely Microsoft, Miniclip, IST, UL and the Champalimaud Foundation. He organizes Game Jams in Portugal since 2014 and teaches Game Design at Lusófona University.
