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After studying journalism, Eric Jannot worked in the gaming industry for more than ten years. He was a public relations executive, freelancer and Senior Game Designer at The Games Company. From 2010 to 2012 he worked as Head of Design at Noumena Studios and was responsible for the creative lead of “Demonicon”, which was awarded the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis.

Since 2012 he is CEO and Creative Director of waza!, for which he creates and produces games about journalism and serious games. Since 2018 he heads the Game Design major at the Hamburg Campus of the University of Applied Sciences Europe.