Team formation
Understanding how developers choose collaborators and organise their creative work.
Projects
Featured research
GameDevUp
How can game creators form teams and work better together?
GameDevUp investigates team formation in game development. The research seeks to develop methods that connect people with complementary skills and working dynamics, supporting collaboration in game jams and incubation programmes.
Collaboration and technology
Investigating how computational methods can help connect people and teams.
Industry application
Translating research into tools and methods for creators, incubators and associations.
Funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions · Horizon Europe. Project 101108738 · 2024–2026.
Supervision: Ioanna Lykourentzou · Antonios Liapis
Featured program · 2025–present
Brazil Games
Accelerator
Pedagogical and programme methodology coordinator
A national acceleration programme preparing Brazilian game studios for international markets. The nine-month journey combines business planning, product validation, and preparation for investment and international publishing through mentoring, specialist consultancy and playtesting.
Featured consultancy
Game é Cultura
Development and international cooperation opportunities for the games sector under Brazil’s Legal Framework for Games
Consulting services to identify opportunities for Brazil under the Legal Framework for Games, operationalizing international partnerships to strengthen policies for the internationalization and exchange of Brazilian games.
Oportunidades de desenvolvimento após o Marco Legal de Games
Full research PDF · PTOportunidades de cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento setorial
Full research PDF · PTOther programs
2026–present
Brazil Games Lab
Technical supervisor
A national hub of playtest laboratories offering free testing to Brazilian studios and paid training for young testers. Sessions produce structured player-experience reports to help studios improve their games. Its first initiative is Brazil Games Lab + Spcine Game, in São Paulo.
2021–2024
Spgame_Start / Spcine Game
Coordination and specialist consultancy
Games sector development initiatives in São Paulo, combining public policy, support for creators and incubation. Spgame_Start was Brazil’s first incubator dedicated exclusively to digital games, supporting studios and their projects.
2021–2022
Game Jam Plus
Strategy Director
An international nonprofit movement creating opportunities for game developers who want to professionalise their work and achieve economic sustainability through their projects.
Other research
2022–2023
Cluster GameRS
Universidade Feevale · Postdoctoral research
The Rio Grande do Sul Digital Games Cluster. Launched at Universidade Feevale in October 2022 with ADJogosRS involvement, the project seeks to strengthen the value chain, develop intellectual capital, and foster innovation and competitiveness in the state’s games industry, aligned with its 2030 strategic planning.
2016–2020
Creative hubs in the development of the digital games industry
UNESP · PhD research
A thesis investigating how creative hubs contribute to games industry development. Combining a mapping of 69 hubs worldwide, documentary research, interviews and fieldwork, the study examines Dutch Game Garden in depth. It develops theoretical propositions on proximity, collaboration and the intermediary role of hubs, showing how their contribution depends on the maturity of local creative clusters.
Other consultancy
2023–2024
WIPO
Dominican Republic · Sector diagnostic and training
Diagnostic review of the Dominican Republic’s digital games sector and implementation of an intellectual property and game development entrepreneurship course, in partnership with the country’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MICM).
2024
Sebrae-SP
Games Sector Development Action Plan 2024–2030
A development plan for São Paulo’s games industry, combining an ecosystem diagnostic and proposed actions to guide institutions and sector stakeholders over the 2024–2030 period.
2023
Fortaleza City Government · Instituto Juventude Inovação
Fortaleza Digital Games Sector Plan
A diagnostic and strategic plan to strengthen Fortaleza’s digital games ecosystem, identify challenges and opportunities, and guide sector development initiatives.
2021
PROCOLOMBIA
Business opportunities in Brazil’s games market
An evaluation of Brazil’s games market to identify business opportunities for Colombian companies and define a strategy to pursue them. Commissioned within contract No. 4929/OC-CO, the Support Programme for the Diversification and Internationalization of the Colombian Economy.
The output of this consultancy has not been made public.
2020
BGZ Berliner · Baltic Game Industry
The Game Incubation Landscape in Europe
Commissioned by BGZ Berliner Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit mbH to appraise different game incubation approaches in Europe, providing a comparative perspective for the Baltic Game Industry project’s incubation pilot results.
2018
Homo Ludens · Brazilian Ministry of Culture
Overview of Public Policies for Digital Games in Brazil
Part of the 2nd Census of the Brazilian Digital Games Industry, produced by a multidisciplinary team coordinated by Homo Ludens to update sector data and inform policy design. The public policy study combines interviews with public managers and ecosystem stakeholders with analysis of secondary data.