Van Schothorst, Pjotr (VSTEP)

Thema: "Treading the line between training and entertainment"

Pjotr van Schothorst is the founder and CTO of VSTEP, one of Europe’s leading Serious Games developers.

With a track record of over 30 B2B projects, one successful entertainment game and several new games and training products under development, VSTEP has built up quite some experience in this field.

Pjotr has a MSc in Physics and worked for 12 years for Shell in 5 different jobs before initiating VSTEP, always introducing new technology in Shell’s mainstream business.

Summary:
Subtitle: Virtual training & games about fire-fighters and mariners

Several of VSTEP’s products will be used as case studies, to illustrate the Do’s and Don’ts when developing and selling Serious Games.

VSTEP’s RescueSim training is used to train fire commanders to take the right decisions in nasty incidents. VSTEP is now working on two consumer games on the same topic.

With Ship Simulator, the reverse direction was followed: first a game, and now a professional training version. In this presentation, you will hear about the differences in the two business models, and the Best Practices when starting a Serious Games company.

Pjotr van Schothorst

www.vstep.nl
www.shipsim.com
www.linkedin.com/in/pjotrvanschothorst