Film London Lodestars 24-25: Games
Reedah El-Saie
Reedah El-Saie, is the founder and CEO of multi-award winning EdTech Gaming startup, Brainspark Games. The studio is building free, culturally inclusive, AI-powered, Augmented Reality, educational mobile games, aligned with the national curriculum. Pioneering neurogames technology, Brainspark Games is designing games for primary and secondary pupils including GCSEs, fostering a love of ‘learning through play’. Borne out of a personal frustration with an antiquated education system not designed for diverse learners, Reedah founded Brainspark Games in 2021 bootstrapping and seedfunding the MVP. Having released its first History game, featuring the Tudors, in the Apple and Google Playstores with 71,000+ downloads, Brainspark Games has been awarded 7 x Innovate UK grants and multiple international awards.
Beatka Wójciak
Beatka is a visionary tech leader and founder of Chaos Cookie, a cosy game studio born from her passion for connecting art and science. A former Google software engineer and team lead, she was part of the Game Changer 2023 accelerator and featured on Apple’s 2024 Ones to Watch list.
Her multi-award-winning game Squarelets, which began as a solo side project, is a soothing puzzle experience designed for wellbeing. Beatka’s studio delivers positive social impact through brand partnerships, such as with DKMS. She was also part of the London Creates Games campaign, championing creativity and mindful game design.
Sindi Breshani
Sindi Breshani is the co-founder and CEO of Episod Studio, a game development startup pioneering the integration of true stories into commercial games. Their first title is co-created with climate scientists and indigenous peoples in the Arctic. Her vision is to transform the gaming landscape into a force for positive change. As part of their Play Lab, Episod experiments at the intersection of games with culture and education, having already collaborated with prominent institutions. Sindi's games have been shown at Tate Britain, Somerset House, Young V&A, and her paper 'Inside a Game' was published by SERRC in 2020.
