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Thomas Jager


Hi! I'm Thomas, a (freelance) game producer with 8+ years experience in game production and operational leadership, most of it with remote teams.

If you want to get in touch, feel free to send me an e-mail on mail (at) this website!

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Isonzo

An online multiplayer first-person shooter set on the Italian Front of the Great War. Featuring authentic battles and introducing urban combat and mountain warfare to the series.

I worked as Producer and later Operations Director on Isonzo. I guided a team of 20+ developers with responsibilities including milestone and sprint planning; overseeing closed alpha/beta testing with players; communicating with marketing, localisation and testing partners; and managing releases across PlayStation, Xbox, Steam and Epic Games Store.

Isonzo released on 13 September 2022 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series S/X. We are currently working on post-release updates consisting of maps, weapons, and occassional new features.

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Laptitude

Laparoscopic training, reimagined. A suite of serious games and simulators with custom-made hardware to train skills for real-world surgery.

As Operational Director at Grendel Games, I led the development team through most of the production phase of the games; pre-production on simulator elements; and custom hardware prototyping.

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Offshore Energy

A serious game that teaches future energy professionals about creative ways to transport offshore energy.

As a team from Game Bakery, we were contracted by WeGo Energy to adapt a serious board game into a web game for Energy Delta Institute.

We worked on this with a team of five developers, making sure that the rules were faithfully translated to a video game format. This was challenging, since the board game required a lot of "game master" interventions when it came to moving energy, so we had to create concrete rules for this. We also reinvented the game's look, opting for a stylised 3D style.

My role as project manager was to define and track releases, manage internal testing with our client WeGo Energy, and coordinate the work with the team consisting of two developers, a designer and a 2D/UI artist.

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Eloquence

A language puzzle game based around a custom-built symbol language, that challenges players to learn this language and communicate to NPCs using it.

I guided development of an early vertical slice with a small team, with Multiverse Narratives as project lead. Also attended events and pitched the game to investers and publishers.

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Ambrasoft

Since rebranded to Junior Cloud Trainer. We created a series of language learning games for primary school children, and rebranded the platform.

I co-designed a range of English learning games for Noordhoff, one of the biggest educational publishers in the Netherlands. The games are part of their online platform 'Ambrasoft', since renamed to 'Junior Cloud Trainer'. I also guided the process of revamping the platform UI and the redesign of Tom and Tamira, the platform's mascottes, with a small team.

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NeoXperiences Neo-One

A multiplayer game arena powered by custom hardware.

I concepted and designed a series of games for the Neo-One platform, together with Sfinx Games. This platform allows players to engage with the game through a giant touch area, that can also be used by throwing balls against it, making it a physical game experience.

The developer of the games, Uni&do, contracted us to design and document a series of games for this platform. After some prototyping iterations with our guidance, Uni&do developed the concepts into games, making changes to the concepts where necessary. We were not involved with the development of the final versions.

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Gallipoli

The sequel to Isonzo and fourth game by BlackMill Games, taking place on the Ottoman front.

During Gallipoli's ideation and pre-production phases I was leading the team at BlackMill Games as Operational Director. I spearheaded the effort to start early and take risks with prototyping, in order to explore how we could evolve the franchise beyond safe pastures.

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Staxel

A creative village farming game that was one of the top sellers on Steam in its launch month.

I helped the Staxel team to launch their game, organising social media and ad campaigns, and prepared two content updates with them around community requested features.

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Super Flippin' Phones

An arcade entertainment game about flipping phones out of people's hands in a mall.

Game I made with Freek Verheijde (under BlauwPrint) and Harm-Jan Wiechers as a first exercise in developing and publishing a game from A to Z. I acted as the producer; made the character art; and co-designed the game. It launched on Android in 2015 and Steam in 2016, going through the Greenlight process.

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