Swen Vincke

Swen Vincke
Occupation Video game designer, creative director
Title CEO of Larian Studios

Swen Vincke is a video game designer, founder and CEO of the Belgian video game company Larian Studios, where he serves as a creative director.

Career

Vincke became a developer in the video game industry in 1996, when he founded Larian Studios.[1][2] As a lead designer in the company, he contributed to all of Larian's early game projects, including (but not limited to), the award-winning role-playing game Divine Divinity (2002) and its sequel Beyond Divinity (2004).[3]

He was later also responsible for the design of KetnetKick, a virtual world for children developed for Belgian children's channel Ketnet.[4] This virtual world has later seen licensed implementations by several other children's channels, such as the British channel CBBC (titled Adventure Rock),[5] French channel Jeunesse TV (titled Gulliland),[6] and Norwegian channel NRK.

References

  1. ↑ Staff, I. G. N. (2003-12-07). "Riftrunner Interview with Swen Vincke at Gamatomic". IGN. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  2. ↑ "About Me « Swen Vincke @ Larian Studios". Swen Vincke @ Larian Studios. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  3. ↑ "Swen Vincke on the future of Divinity: Original Sin 2, and the pros and cons of open development". pcgamer. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  4. ↑ "Privacy settings". www.hln.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  5. ↑ Adventure Rock Credits, found within the game interface
  6. ↑ "GulliLand". Larian.com. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
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